Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 
Let’s Tell This Story Properly 
An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.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.

Spis treści

• The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 


• Foreword by Ramesh Gunesekera  


• Editor’s Note  


• Hummingbird, Daniel Anders (Australia) 


• A Day in the Death, Evan Adam Ang (Singapore) 


• Grandmother, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Singapore) 


• Devil Star, Hazel Campbell (Jamaica) 


• Sending for Chantal, Maggie Harris (Guyana) 


• Fatima Saleh, Alexander Ikawah (Kenya) 


• Notes from the Ruins, Anushka Jasraj (India) 


• Cowboy, Helen Klonaris (Bahamas)


• Elbow, Khadija Magardie (South Africa) 


• Antonya’s Baby Shower on Camperdown Road by A.L. Major (Bahamas) 


• Let’s Tell This Story Properly, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda) 


• The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night, Michael Mendis (Sri Lanka)  


• Ghost Marriage, Andrea Mullaney (UK) 


• If These Walls Had Ears, Carl Nixon (New Zealand) 


• Tenure, Julian Novitz (New Zealand) 


• Next Full Moon We’ll Release Juno, Bridget Pitt (South Africa) 


• The Night of Broken Glass, Jack Wang (Canada) 


•  About the Authors 

O autorze

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.