New Book: "Dreams at Dawn" Anthology of Short Stories from Fidelity Bank's International Creative Writing Series (Nigeria)

Dreams at Dawn - stories from Fidelity Bank's 2010 International Creative Writing Workshop series was launched on June 24 at the Lagos Resource Center. Edited by Helon Habila, Tsitsi Dangarebga and Madeleine Thien, the book contains 14 short stories including James Eze’s The Last Good Man in America, Eghosa Imasuen's et Hair, Nnadozie Duke Onyekuru’s Upside Down, Elvis Iyorngurum’s Scars of Our Last Day, Tolu Oginlesi’s The Funeral, Stanley Azuakola’s Penitence, Uche Peter Umez’s Face Like A Mask, and Emilia Udom’s No Fault of Mine.


Toni Kan, author of ‘Nights of the Creaking Bed’, described the stories in this collection as "tinged with nostalgia and regret but mostly regret. The characters that people this collection are men and women blindsided by circumstance, people who wonder how they have come to the sorry passes that their lives have become. The stories speak directly to the heart of what it is to be Nigerian at this very moment with all the dysfunction and anomie and rage. These stories mine the depths of our collective anxieties, our unspoken fears and hysteria. They speak directly to the things that keep us awake at night."

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