Author: Commonwealth Writers

'Night Fishing' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View the full shortlist here.

There are many ways to carry the past with us: to romanticise it, to invalidate it, to furnish it with…

It took me a moment to recognise him.  When I did, I was overcome by the shyness of seeing a…

بعد لحظات قليلة ستسمعون صوتاً مدوياً.. إطلاق نار من مكان مرتفع جداً في الفراغ. سيكون الصدى هائلاً. لكنكم ربما معتادون…

We gather here and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. It does not feel like we’ve inherited…

At 11.42 p.m., on 1 November, 2016, Peter Abraham Stanhope sat at his family’s old mahogany dining table and slit…

'The Sweet Sop' won the overall 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for the Caribbean.   If…

'Cow and Company' won the overall 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Asia.   ‘Where is the…

'The Human Phonograph' won the overall 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Europe.   And as…

'Let’s Tell This Story Properly' won the overall 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Africa.   If…

'We Walked on Water' won the overall 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Canada.   Land…