By Mirembe Esther Eish, how I’m I even supposed to review this as a book? Madness! Okay, my dramatics aside. Your Heart Will Skip a Beat and Other Stories is clearly an anthology. A flash fiction anthology of 13 stories by brilliant writers so technically speaking, I can’t talk about it as a whole, right? … More Catching Mixed Feelings from Your Heart Will Skip A Beat
I am not sure about other cultures around the world, however, I have found that African culture is filled with the oddest colloquialisms. These are often belted out by an angry parent faced with a child whose troubles they cannot comprehend. These ridiculously funny sayings are often used in speech but rarely in written prose. … More Boyi is an easy, believable read
By Sydney Mugerwa Abu Amirah’s Swahilification of Mutembei branches from the common structure I have come to expect in the shortlisted Writivism 2016 short stories I have read and reviewed so far. The Swahilification of Mutembei is a leisurely read, unrushed in its plot progression and pacing in a classic example of form follows function. It took … More Abu Amirah’s The Swahilification of Mutembei requires a second and third reading
By Kirabo Byabashaija Hmmm… I was left a little bit uncertain after reading this story. I almost want to persuade Acan to write an encore just to appease my uncertainty…proceeds to cross fingers The setting is in apocalyptic earth, but Acan has a managed to spin the story away from the norm that is characterised … More Acan Immaculate’s SunDown is not the usual apocalyptic story
The Writivism Prizes 