Static, a short story by a Nigerian, Alithnayn Abdulkareem, has been named as the second runner up of the 2020/2021 Short Story Day Africa Prize.
The Washington DC-based development practitioner gets $100 and her story alongside that of other winners and the rest of the longlist would be published in Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, due out in September 2021.‘Five Years Next Sunday’ by a Kenyan, Idza Luhumyo, won while the first runner up was ‘Shelter’ by Mbozi Haimbe, a Zambian. They would receive prize money of $800 and $200 respectively.
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