The Short.Sharp.Stories Awards are very pleased to announce the WINNERS for the 2016 collection, DIE LAUGHING. Congratulations to all.
JUDGES’ CHOICE
BEST STORY
'This Could Get Messy' by Greg Lazarus
“A simply wonderful story about love... funny, with its twists and turns, chuckles and sadness.”
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The Runners-Up…
'This Is Not A Joke', Maureen by Gail Schimmel
“Really funny despite its dark subject matter. The depiction of the humourless mother is exquisite.”
'Angel Heart' by Kobus Moolman
“Unconventional, with an adventurous play of syntax, and a truly original imagining of Jesus. Bizarre, and intriguing.”
EDITOR’S CHOICE
'Learning a New Language' by Fred Khumalo
“Tongue-in-cheek action which shows up misogyny… and makes a statement as to learning to appreciate women.”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
'Jim Goes to Durban' by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay
“Good, honest, laugh-out-loud slapstick.”
'Number One With A Bullet' by Christopher McMichael
“Truly laugh-out-loud funny, with a satirical edge.”
'The Derby' by Ofentse Ribane
“Written with a sharp energy and an original take.”
'The Viewing Room' by Diane Awerbuck
“A sophisticated, melancholy and quirky story.”
'The Seduction of Ozzie Stone' by Stephen Symons
“The ironies, the plot, it all comes together in easy-flowing, integrated writing, and leaves one smiling wistfully.”
New Tearoom Books Titles
Gary Cummiskey's Don't Stop Until Incinerated is a short collection of poems that inhabit a desolate, disquieting place, a place in which the fabric of reality is threadbare. Cummiskey has mastered the art of minimalist unease, yet there are also moments of dark humour in these 26 starkly elegant poems, characterised by his iconoclastic surrealism.
New Tearoom Books Titles
30 Poems by Pravasan Pillay collects a selection of poems written mostly between 2003-2006 and published in South African journals. The themes of the poems are old, new and broken love; sex; marriage; failure; vanity; and quitting smoking.
Tearoom Books Titles
Loop is Tearoom Books' writing zine. It will be published primarily as free e-chapbooks. Issue 2 comprises a selection of poetry. Click on the cover for more information.
Tearoom Books Titles
Glumlazi by Pravasan Pillay, was released in January 2009. Glumlazi, Pillay's debut, is a collection of short poems, concerning revenge, sex and the blues. The majority of poems run no-more than two lines. Available at R40 including postage. For order information, contact tearoombooks@gmail.com
OTHER
(Book) Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay. Second Print Run. Prepare yourself for a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. Within these pages you will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday. Published by BK Publishing. Price: R135. To order a copy write to: andrea [at] bkpublishing [dot] co [dot] za