My book of short stories will be free on Amazon from 5 to 9 October. I wrote this collection of short stories during the MA Creative Writing course at Rhodes University. I found the experience exhilarating and explored different ways of telling a story, which is evident in this collection. Below an extract from Akere, … Continue reading Eye of a Needle: And Other Stories free on Kindle for 5 days!
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The Buried Chameleon: A novel
Below an extract from the slave novel I'm editing. I'm sending out queries to agents and so far I have collected a number of no's. Although I finished the novel in April 2023 I have waited a while to get back to it due to my husband's illness and death. The novel is set at … Continue reading The Buried Chameleon: A novel
The Power of Story II
Recently I attended the Global Anti-apartheid Conference for Palestine (10-12 May) in Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of a delegation from our local writers association. There was a workshop dedicated to the topic “changing the narrative”, a subject deemed necessary because negative stories were circulating about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, for example, that the Palestinians were … Continue reading The Power of Story II
Cornelia Smith Fick 