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Category: Short Stories

March 26, 2018April 3, 2018 Kinna

12 Short Story Collections to Read in 2018

February 26, 2016February 21, 2016 Kinna

Short Story Day Africa announces 2016 theme and dates for submission

February 23, 2016February 22, 2016 Kinna

2016 Writivism Short Story Prize opens for submssions

June 15, 2015June 16, 2015 Kinna

My Maths Teacher Hates Me and Other Stories, Jalada’s new Flash Fiction Anthology

April 27, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

Yiyun Li wins The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award with ‘A Sheltered Woman’

March 2, 2015May 24, 2015 Kinna

My Shadow Jalada Prize Longlist

February 16, 2015March 1, 2015 Kinna

Jalada’s ‘Afrofuture(s)’ and The Jalada Prize

August 21, 2014June 9, 2015 Kinna

Notes on Okwiri Oduor’s ‘My Father’s Head’

February 14, 2014February 14, 2014 Kinna

Jalada Africa’s ‘Sketch of a Bald Woman in the Semi-Nude and Other Stories’

January 13, 2014January 12, 2014 Kinna

10 Short Story Collections to Read in 2014

November 15, 2013November 15, 2013 Kinna

Nana Yaw Sarpong Reviews “Small Changes Within the Dynamic” by Martin Egblewogbe

November 11, 2013November 11, 2013 Kinna

Five Recommended Short Story Collections by Ghanaian Writers

October 28, 2013 Kinna

For Short Monday: 10 Short Stories to Read Online

July 9, 2013July 10, 2013 Kinna

On Bessie Head’s Tales of Tenderness and Power

June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 Kinna

Blogging the Caine: ‘Miracle’ by Tope Folarin

January 16, 2012June 15, 2013 Kinna

7 Days of Shorts

January 11, 2012January 12, 2012 Kinna

African Roar 2011: “Longing for Home” by Hajira Amla

January 10, 2012October 20, 2015 Kinna

Opening Spaces, edited by Yvonne Vera

January 9, 2012June 15, 2013 Kinna

“The Falling Girl” by Dino Buzzatti

December 27, 2011January 17, 2012 Kinna

Mini-Reviews at the End of 2011

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Kinna

Lifelong reader. I read mostly fiction. I enjoy world literature. I’m partial to women writers, especially African women writers. Here, you'll find commentary on novels, short stories and poems. In Accra, Ghana. Contact me at kinnareads at gmail dot com. Host of Africa Reading Challenge.

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