Writers, mark your calendars!

If you are serious about Botswana literature, reading, writing and getting published you need to pay close attention.

This Sunday, the Bessie Head Heritage Trust (BHHT) is celebrating the wonderful little bite-sized fiction format— the short story! The event, dubbed Celebrating The Short Story, will begin at 2pm at the News Café in Gaborone. The programme will include the awarding of the prize to this year’s winner of the BHHT Short Story Contest. This year’s winner is Caiphus Mangenela for his story, ‘A Mother Amongst the Stars’. He wins P2,000. An excerpt from the winning story will be read and the story discussed. The theme this year, coinciding with our country’s auspicious birthday was ‘independence’. The judges were international writers Fiona Snyckers, Zukiswa Wanner and Karen Jennings.