Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.

This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbis Lets Tell This Story Properly, alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is an editor, critic, and broadcaster. The former deputy editor ofGranta magazine and Chair of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judging panel, she is a series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, the Deputy Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and patron of the Etisalat Literature Prize. A member of the judging panel for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, she was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry. She lives in London, England.

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize Foreword by Ramesh Gunesekera Editor's Note Hummingbird, Daniel Anders (Australia) A Day in the Death, Evan Adam Ang (Singapore) Grandmother, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Singapore) Devil Star, Hazel Campbell (Jamaica) Sending for Chantal, Maggie Harris (Guyana) Fatima Saleh, Alexander Ikawah (Kenya) Notes from the Ruins, Anushka Jasraj (India) Cowboy, Helen Klonaris (Bahamas)Elbow, Khadija Magardie (South Africa) Antonyas Baby Shower on Camperdown Road by A.L. Major (Bahamas) Lets Tell This Story Properly, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda) The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night, Michael Mendis (Sri Lanka) Ghost Marriage, Andrea Mullaney (UK) If These Walls Had Ears, Carl Nixon (New Zealand) Tenure, Julian Novitz (New Zealand) Next Full Moon Well Release Juno, Bridget Pitt (South Africa) The Night of Broken Glass, Jack Wang (Canada)  About the Authors