South Africa

Qhunna sat under a makeshift shelter, a torn tent, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.  Part of the protest. It…

Some still wear masks. Neither his mask nor the weight of all the years separating you can hide him from…

Seven. Ma and Aunt Katlyn cram our lives into fifty-six medium-sized boxes, and we uproot to a town with manicured…

She opened her hand delicately, like a flower. There was nothing inside.  ‘Do you know how to hide an idea?’…

Faint purple liquid advanced along the tube towards his mother’s flesh. Her left hand lay stretched out, palm facing upwards,…

I’m outside Tony’s Auto Glass in Maitland waiting for a new windscreen. My van’s worth less than the windscreen, but…

'A Breath, a Bunk, a Land, a Sky' was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

‘The Faraway Things’ was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

In spite of everything, the heat is relentless. I move slowly to limit the flow of sweat. I may be…

In the kitchen sits a cooler box. In it, a Fanta.   The Fanta in the cooler box is not mine.…

‘Only men?’ she speaks into the mass gathered at Satan’s gate to protest hell’s conditions. ‘Where are the women?’  …

In the beginning, some time before 1886, there was only veld – rolling, somewhat rocky hills of grassland. And while…

'Talk of the Town' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View the full shortlist here.

'Trampled Roses' was longlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Read more about the Prize here.