This year�s theme is ID

Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) is opening for submissions on June 1, 2017 for this year’s competition. They’ll be accepting submissions until July 31.

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.”

Editor's Comment
Congratulations Anicia Gaothuse!

The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...

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