Spoiling The Broth – A Melting Pot Of Youth And Experience
While the majority of Spoiling The Broth anthology contributors are aspiring authors, the short story collection is a melting pot of youth and experience with at least seven published authors.
Busisekile Khumalo, Hidayat Adams, Busisiwe I Ngwenya, Buhle Stuurman, Thubelihle Chance Ntombela, Anathi Kom and Zambian Isaac Kanyinji Jr lead the charge. Busisekile is the author of the acclaimed Harvard Series, Her Silent Screams and Fallen Candle, while Cape Town based author Hidayat Adams has published a collection of short stories titled Mhlobam and Other Stories. Anathi Kom is a product of PUBLISH’D AFRIKA’s Adopt-An-Author Program, while Kanyinji’s ebook was edited and published by PUBLISH’D AFRIKA.
The PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine Short Story Competition was officially established in December 2021, and started operating in January 2022. We invite writers to submit short stories of between 1800 and 2500 words, under a theme we announce monthly. The stories are then posted on our Facebook page, and readers vote for the best story for the month. The story that obtains the most votes wins R500, while the PUBLISHER’S CHOICE AWARD is worthy a whooping R1000. The prizes are funded by the National Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme 3.
While the writers and their works are exposed to the 15000-plus following our page has amassed (new followers join the page daily), the stories are exposed to an even bigger audience as every writer is allowed to canvass for votes and advertise his or her story on various platforms, exposing the page to an even bigger audience monthly. The winners are then featured in our monthly issue of the PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary magazine, giving them further publicity and assisting them to build themselves as brands.
In-between, we offer mentoring programs, based on the areas we identified to be lacking in each writer’s work. Writing tips are also posted on the page regularly, as well as other worthy calls for submission from various other art and craft organisations.
Already, this mentoring program has produced published authors such as Anathi Kom, Zeripah Amoni Phiri and Matumelo Mafoko. All three were published by PUBLISH’D AFRIKA’s Adopt-An-Author Program.
While the competition has unearthed writers from every corner of the country, the PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine has gone a step further. Through the magazine, we have brought to the fore hidden talent from various parts of the country, that no one would have known about had the magazine not been established. We also invite established authors, artists and other established creatives to give tips on anything from writing, publishing, entrepreneurship (using your art as a business), building yourself into a brand etc.
People who have honoured our invites include American author Eve Fairbanks, Nhlanhla Ngema of Sarafina and Broadway’s The Lion King fame and founder of Keeloz Global Entertainment, and Kirsten Miller who won the prestigious international writing competition, the Niso Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for 2016. She is also the author of six books. We have also had the courageous Tshidi Monkoe, author of Prison Love, gracing our pages, best-selling authors Takalani M and Busisekile Khumalo, and poetry connoisseur Frank Meintjies.
You can pre-order the book from any of your favourite authors who are part of the anthology, or contact PUBLISH’D AFRIKA directly at info@publishdafrika.com, or WhatsApp +2784 311 8838.
Spoiling The Broth – A PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Anthology
It is said that too many cooks spoil the broth. This broth, comprising of writers unearthed through PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine’s Short Story Competition, seeks to shatter this myth.
Spoiling The Broth Vol.1 is a multi-themed collection of new short stories by authors from across the African continent. They were all monthly winners in tightly contested short story writing competitions that were held from January to October 2022, and from January to March 2023.
The magazine’s monthly competition drew over 200 writers from across the continent, and these 19 were the cream of the crop. Each story in this anthology is distinctly African, the characters brutally honest and relatable and the narrative geared at redefining Africa’s narrative.
The publication of this anthology has been made possible by the National Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Presidential Employment Stimulus 3.
The PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine Short Story Competition was officially established in December 2021, and started operating in January 2022. The magazine invites aspiring writers to submit short stories of between 1800 and 2500 words, under a theme that is announced monthly.
“The stories are then posted on our Facebook page, and readers vote for the best story for the month,” said Sukoluhle. “The anthology therefore contains new, fresh stories written by these monthly winners.”
“While the competition has unearthed writers from every corner of the country, the PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine has gone a step further. Through the magazine, we have brought to the fore hidden talent from various parts of the country, that no one would have known about had the magazine not been established.”
The books, Volume 1 and 2 of Spoiling The Broth, will be released mid-April 2023. While we are working hard to make the book available in book stores, readers are welcome to pre-order their copies from any of your favourite writers featured in this anthology, or you can contact PUBLISH’D AFRIKA directly at info@publishdafrika.com or WhatsApp us at +2783 487 4440 / +2784 311 8838.
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