The African regional winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. A slight disturbance in everyday life gradually reveals the unease inside human relationships.

Small irregularities in daily life eventually become something far more unsettling.

Set in colonial India, this work interweaves a business built around a cow with the absurdities of community life. Social order is shaken from both commercial and religious angles.

Activity around a cow exposes the order and absurdity inside the community.

The Canada/Europe regional winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Small dislocations in everyday life and feelings that cannot be spoken leave a strong impression.

A chain of brief scenes leaves only the contours of feeling sharply visible.

The Caribbean regional winner. A family with an odd name and a lightly comic sense of lack around food and daily life eventually shift into something more unsettling.

A light comic tone eventually flips into a different feeling altogether.

The Pacific regional winner. Within a life shaped by the sea, the connections between family, land, and memory are drawn quietly and clearly.

A life by the sea brings family memory into view.