Writers You Should Know: Jackee Budesta Batanda

It’s about two girls, friends, who are child soldiers.  I read it nearly 10 years ago and still I think of it often, such a powerful story written in under 600 words.

Jackee has gone on to win many writing awards since then. The most prominent, at least for her fiction, would be winning the 2003 Commonwealth Short Story Competition for African Region. She said winning that award was one of the most exciting things to happen to her as a writer.