This year�s theme is ID
Friday, May 26, 2017
The theme this year is ‘ID’. From their website they say: “This year, we’re looking for innovative short fiction that explores identity, especially (but not limited to) the themes of gender identity and sexuality. In early psychoanalysis, the ‘ID’ was postulated as being one of three aspects of personality, and the only one over which we have no control. Often hidden and home to the unconscious, the ID is the core of the self, our instinctual nature, our deepest desires. The I before ego, the earliest version of ourselves, the who we are before we have had time to be.
In modern Africa, our identities are too often defined for us and not by us, trapped by society, biology and history. In 2017, we hope to see work that seeks to break and redefine the strictures put onto our identities, as individuals and as peoples. Fiction that looks beyond the boundaries of expectation, and peers into the truest definitions of ourselves.”
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