Migrations - Chela Efemia
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In small literary circles like ours in South Africa, it is seldom that one gets to review a publication by a complete stranger. I often end up discussing books written, compiled or edited by people I know. Inevitably, conflicts of interest arise, but with enough self-awareness and openness, one can hopefully uphold critical integrity. So, let me put all my cards on the table, and there are quite a few in the case of the latest Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) anthology, Migrations: New short fiction from Africa, edited by Efemia Chela, Bongani Kona and Helen Moffett: I have been a board member of SSDA, founded and run by Rachel Zadok, for nearly three years, and thus have been involved in the reading and preliminary selection of the stories submitted for the annual SSDA Prize. Nick Mulgrew and I co-edited the previous SSDA anthology, Water: New short fiction from Africa. I am friends with all of these remarkable writers, including the editors of Migrations. Together with Catherine Shepherd, I also co-edited the YA companion anthology to Migrations. Entitled Misplaced and other stories, it includes stories by six of the promising young writers who entered the SSDA Prize competition last year. In short, it's complicated.
TITLE: Migrations
AUTHOR: Chela Efemia
SKU: 9780620745406
PUBLISHER: short story day africa
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017
PLACE PUBLISHED: South Africa
PAGES: 267
BINDING: Softcover
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 150mmx210mm
WEIGHT: 250 gram