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Guard / Dear Katherine
Akwaeke Emezi
An excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir.
Have You Met Husband?
Amy Silverberg
‘It was new, that heat coming off of him, a person seeing you naked and wanting to see you again, the next day, clothed. It was definitely the beginning of something.’
New fiction from Amy Silverberg.
Ceremony of Innocence
Madeleine Bunting
A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.
Fertile Soil
Katerina Gibson
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific region.
Gororau (Borderlands)
Elizabeth O’Connor
‘Tad took down any picture of Mam the week after she died. He said they would bring bad luck to the house.’
A story set in rural Wales.
Unbury Our Dead with Song
Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ
A Kenyan journalist falls in love with the Tizita, popularly called Ethiopian blues, in this extract from Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ’s new novel.
The Disappearance of Mumma Dell
Roland Watson-Grant
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the region of the Caribbean
Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok
Emma Larkin
‘Comrade Aeon had been changed by his years in the jungle.’
My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be
Isabel Waidner
A letter to footballer Justin Fashanu – excerpted from Isabel Waidner’s novel Sterling Karat Gold.
Turnstones
Carol Farrelly
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize from the region of Canada and Europe.
I Cleaned the –
Kanya D’Almeida
Overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, as well as winner for the region of Asia.
