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What the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Controversy Means to Commonwealth Writers

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By Mandira Pattnaik
| Lit Mag News
Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. What is The Commonwealth Prize? In 2011, judges Nicholas Hasluck, Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, Antonia MacDonald-Smythe, Muneeza Shamsie, and Paul Sharrad, gathered in Sydney to deliberate on the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. After convening, they chose The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna, a powerful novel set in post-civil war Sierra Leone, as the winner.
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How to Ace the Rejection Game

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By Mandira Pattnaik
| Authors Publish
By Mandira Pattnaik It is not advisable for the well-published authors to view the plight of newbie, emerging writers as they grapple with the onslaught ravaged upon them by editors and publishers who view them less as blood-and-bone humans and more as names and email addresses.
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The Crocodile Married, and Then It Was Over

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By Mandira Pattnaik, Chinelo Onwualu, Yu Ya
| Adi Magazine Verified
Artwork by Herikita Near where River Bhogdoloi flows, my family has a home. Last I was in contact, Aunt Cheema, too afraid to lead a solitary life, had married the crocodile that pursued her for years. That crocodile has a home in the shallow parts of the river. He found his love in my aunt during the fortieth Assam floods when river and village were one smooth slurry.
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