If These Walls Had Ears: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
By Carl Nixon
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If These Walls Had Ears is by New Zealand’s Carl Nixon.
Carl Nixon
Carl Nixon lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. His collection of stories, Fish ’n’ Chip Shop Song and Other Stories, was published in 2006 and was number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific region.
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If These Walls Had Ears - Carl Nixon
Table of Contents
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Foreword by Romesh Gunesekera
Editor's Note
Carl Nixon (New Zealand): If These Walls Had Ears
About The Authors
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Short Story Prize was launched by Commonwealth Writers in 2012 as an award for the best piece of unpublished short fiction written in English from across the Commonwealth. It is one of the few international prizes open to published and unpublished writers alike and to stories translated into English.
Commonwealth Writers is the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, an international development organization based in London. It was set up to inspire and connect writers and storytellers across the world. We believe that well-told stories can help people make sense of events, engage with others, and take action to bring about change.
This anthology comprises some of the strongest entries to the prize between 2012 and 2014, selected by the Chairs of the judging panels: author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster and journalist Razia Iqbal, and editor and critic Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.
Each year the international judges select five winning writers from five different Commonwealth regions — Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific — one of whom is chosen as the overall winner.
We receive thousands of stories from almost every one of the fifty-three countries in the Commonwealth. As well as more established writers, the shortlists each year include many new and emerging writers, often from countries with little or no publishing infrastructure.
It’s our aim to bring writers from around the world to the attention of a wider audience. Let’s Tell This Story Properly is one way to achieve this.
We would like to thank our judges from 2012–14: Tash Aw, Doreen Baingana, Urvashi Butalia, Craig Cliff, Elise Dillsworth,