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Seventh
Street Alchemy short-listed for the Caine Prize 2004
Weaver
Press Zimbabwe
April 30, 2004
Weaver Press
is pleased to announce that Brian Chikwava, author of the short
story ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ has been short-listed for the Caine
Prize for short story writing 2004.
Charles
Mungoshi, author of 'The Sins of the Fathers' was highly commended
by the judges.
The winners
were chosen by a panel of judges, chaired by Nigerian author, Ben
Okri and the selection was made from approximately 120 stories.
Writing Still
is the only publication mentioned, the other four short listed titles
were drawn from on-line magazines.
Caine Prize
Short list 2004
- Brian Chikwava
(Zimbabwe) for 'Seventh Street Alchemy' from Writing Still,
Weaver Press, Harare 2003;
- Doreen Baingana
(Uganda) for 'Hunger', from the Sun Magazine, March 2003;
- Parselelelo
Kantai (Kenya) for 'The Story of Comrade Lemma and the Black Jerusalem
Boys Band' from Kwani?, Nairobi 2003;
- Monica Arac
de Nyeko (Uganda) for 'Strange Fruit' from Cook Communication,
online magazine AuthorMe;
- Chika Unigwe
(Nigeria) for 'The Secret' from online literature magazine
Open Wide.
Highly commended entries:
Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe) for 'The Sins of the Fathers' from
Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003; Jackee
Budeste Batanda (Uganda) for 'Remember Atita' from Cook Communication,
online magazine AuthorMe.
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