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If These Walls Had Ears

Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles

ByCarl Nixon
Edited byEllah Wakatama Allfrey
Published July 2015
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Description

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

If These Walls Had Ears is by New Zealand’s Carl Nixon.

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Hummingbird

Daniel Anders

A Day in the Death

Evan Adam Ang

Grandmother

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Devil Star

Hazel D. Campbell

Sending for Chantal

Maggie Harris

Contributors

Carl Nixon

Carl Nixon lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. His collection of stories, Fish ’n’ Chip Shop Song and Other Stories, was published in 2006 and was number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific region.

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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.

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Book Details

ePub
July 2015
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14 pp
9781459733732