Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Blogging the Caine Prize


As from this Friday a group of bloggers are going to be reading, blogging and cross-posting the stories nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing. 

The shortlisted stories are:

If you're interested in participating, holla - whether its reading one story or all of them. Even if you don't have a blog you're welcome. Also, please checkout ZunguZungu's blog for more info.

6 comments:

Mel u said...

I will begin blogging on all five of the short listed stories starting June 18-I will look forward to reading the other posts-

KonWomyn said...

Excellent. Thanks for commenting, I look forward to reading your contribution.

Mel u said...

last year I think I may have been the only book blogger to post on the Caine Prize Stories-I thought "Stick Fighting Days" was really well done-I will post on the first 2011 story very soon-we should see who can pick the winner!

KonWomyn said...

That's a good idea - I wouldn't put my money on the Ugandan and Zimbabwe stories though. I never blogged the stories last year, but doing it collectively has been a good experience. All the different persepctives provide valuable insight.

Mel u said...

maybe we can see if we can somehow get everyone blogging on all the stories to pic their winner-I read the Zimbabwe story this morning-I will read it once more then post on it-

KonWomyn said...

Okay, you can suggest to Aaron, I'm sure he'll be up for it. I'll put up my post on the South African story later today.