Alert! The Bessie Head Heritage Trust has announced the winners of the 2015 Bessie Head Short Story Awards.
The Bessie Head Short Story Awards reward original and unpublished short stories in English, and are open to citizens and residents of Botswana. The facilitators include three past winners: Wame Molefhe, Wazha Lopang and Lauri Kubuitsile.
This year’s award judges were Zukiswa Wanner, Karen Jennings and Fiona Snyckers.
Without further ado:
2015 Bessie Head Short Story Awards winners
- First place: Donald Molosi, for “The Biggest Continent”
- Second place: Siyanda Mohutsiwa, for “And Then We Disappeared into Some Guy’s Car”
- Third place: Vamika Sinha, for “Love and Other Almosts”
Molosi and Mohutsiwa were both recently longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize,
First place prize money is 2 000 pula (about R2 900), second place P1 500, third place P1 000. Prizes have been donated by Diamond Educational Publishers.
The award ceremony is being held on Saturday, 23 January, at the National Museum in Gaborone, at 2 PM, with a keynote speech by Kubuitsile.
Congratulations to the winners!
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