Keeping SA’s short story flame burning
‘In Other Stories’ has fiction and memoir pieces, while ‘One Life’ contains stories with a theme
Two independent publishers and writers in Cape Town, Joanne Hichens and Karina M Szczurek, are keeping the short story flame burning in SA. While Hichens runs Tattoo Press, which publishedOne Life, Szczurek founded Karavan Press five years ago, and it publishedIn Other Stories.
Edited by poet and writer Kerry Hammerton, In Other Stories is a slim volume of flash, encompassing both fiction as well as some memoir pieces. As to a definition of “flash”, Hammerton answers this in the introduction to the volume: “A flash is not simply a story that has been pared back to its bare bones. Instead, it concentrates on movement, every word and sentence is important to the progression of the story.” She adds that what happens off the page is as important as what happens on it. ..
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