![]() Ezeano’s role in the series, as intern and reader, has since widened to include reading submitted stories from American ones. Quigley reached out to Ezeano, who came up in the Nigerian scene, to suggest and serve as the contact person with African magazines. ![]() The invitations went out to Agbowo, Lolwe, Isele, Short Story Day Africa, and Dgeku, at first, and later the Gerald Kraak Prize, which collects its shortlisted stories in anthologies. Henry Prize Stories, told Open Country Mag. The prize series, which annually recognizes 20 short stories and exclusively considers work published in American magazines, has now invited five African literary organisations and magazines to make submissions, Jenny Minton Quigley, Series Editor of the O. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Manny Jefferson. ![]() Last year, she became the prize’s first guest editor and selected the winners, two of whom were Nigerians-Jowhor Ile, for “Fisherman’s Stew,” and Adachioma Ezeano, for “Becoming the Baby Girl.” For the first time in years, the series anthology had a bump in sales. She won her second in 2010, for “The Headstrong Historian,” which also appears in her collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Henry Prize in 2003, for “The American Embassy,” it set in motion events that would see America’s oldest and most prestigious short story award eventually open to African magazines. ![]() When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won her first O. ![]()
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