COMMONWEALTH SHORTSTORY COMPERTITON RESULTS

“…Short stories are like tight-rope walks. Because every word counts, even the tiniest slip can be fatal.”

– Philip Nash, £5,000 Winner of Commonwealth ShortStory Competition 2011.

Yes, the winners of this huge competition have finally been announced.

In the African region, Kenyan writer, Basett Buyukah, won with ‘Martha’. Other winners are:

The Maoist by Nikesh Murali, India

Head not make for hat alone by Barbara Jenkins, Trinidad and Tobago

Ginger Beer by Sarah Bainbridge, New Zealand

The special prize for a story on this year’s Commonwealth theme, Women as Agents of Change, was awarded to Indian writer, Lavanya Arvind, with her inspiring story of a woman starting a family business. The Story for Children special prize was awarded to Jamaican children’s author Diane Browne.

Here is the 2011 Highly Commended list:

The Lucky Girl	Sheillah Maonga	Kenya
The Bride Price	Victor Idem	Nigeria
Stylish Marcella	Constance Obonyo	Uganda
Side-by-Side	Adele Mostert	South Africa
There is Love	Abeer Hoque	Bangladesh
Fair Enough	Leroy Luar	Malaysia
When Lions came in Brown Boxes	Joyce Thierry Llewellyn	Canada
The Book Instead	Kate Clanchy	United Kingdom
Turnip Gratin	Susan Luddem	United Kingdom
Prejudice	David Pinnell	United Kingdom
Love, Honour and Obeah	Kathyann Husbands	Barbados
White Shoes	Edwina Griffith	Barbados
Letting Cockroaches Live	Sonja Dumas	Trinidad and Tobago
Icarus	Jax Goss	South Africa
The Levee	Catherine Mojsiewicz	Australia
How are you?	Lydia Sturton	Australia
Work Life	Dominic Carew	Australia
The Challenge	Ruperake Petaia	Samoa

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