Why is the Commonwealth Short Story Prize so wilfully boring?
Sorry, but it’s embarrassing at this point
If there really was a vibe shift, nobody told the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Every year since 2012, the transnational organisation of former colonial states has run a short story competition, receiving thousands of entries, and every year they seem desperate to choose the most mawkish, didactic story they possibly can as its winner. T…
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