2018 Winners

The Murder of Emil Coetzee On the eve of his country’s independence a plan is put in motion to make Emil Coetzee’s suicide look like a murder. However, instead of a suicide being made to look like a murder, a murder is committed and made to look like a suicide. Who would want to kill Emil Coetzee…

Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana will write a speculative novel based on his 2013 short story, ‘The House of The Apostate.’ The novel will narrate the same Muslim couple’s struggles with religious belief, and it will be set in a future Cape Town floundering from the effects of climate change. Minhaj, a banker, and Jaanaan, a…

Edwige Renée Dro is a writer from Côte d’Ivoire. Also a translator and a literary activist, she is the co-founder of Abidjan Lit, a Collectif of literature lovers seeking to take over Abidjan with literature. Renée’s writings have been published in various magazines like Prufrock, Popula or This is Africa. She is currently writing a biographic novel of Marie Séry Koré,…

Kọla Túbọsún is a Nigerian linguist, editor, travel writer, and scholar. His works have been published in African Writer, Aké Review, Brittle Paper, International Literary Quarterly, Jalada, Popula, Saraba Magazine, etc. In 2016, he became the first African to be given the Premio Ostana, a prize given for work in indigenous language advocacy. Tubosun is the…