| ISBN | 9781779220431 |
| ePub ISBN | 9781779221827 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Dimensions | 216 x 140 mm |
| Published | 2005 |
| Publisher | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe |
| Formats | Paperback, eBook |
Writing Now
More Stories from Zimbabwe
edited by Irene Staunton
Prize winner at the 2006 Zimbabwe Book Publishers' Literary Awards.
The sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging - and sometimes challenging - picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe.
Like its predecessor, Writing Now combines well-established writers - Chinodya, Mupfudzi, Eppel, Chingono - with several new voices. Although the stories emerge from lives of economic hardship and privation, their tone is by no means uniformly. Zimbabwean writers continue to demonstrate that sharp humour and surreal fantasy can grow from the bleakest of roots.
About the Editor
Irene Staunton began work in publishing in London in the 1970s. Returning to Zimbabwe after its independence, she became the editor at the government’s new Curriculum Development Unit. In 1987, she co-established Baobab Books, which rapidly acquired a reputation as an exciting literary publisher. In 1999, she left Baobab to co-found Weaver Press. She was also the editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series for several years. Staunton has also researched and compiled a number of oral histories including Mothers of the Revolution.