Literary works

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BETWEEN THE WALLS

by Lindsay Katchika First runner up in the 2025 Makewana Short story competition I. The mansion reeks of fresh paint and stale perfume—scents that don’t belong here. Too clean. Too staged. My fingers clamp around my bag strap as...

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BOOK REVIEW

ANTHOLOGY: Winning Stories from the 2008 Malawian Girls’ Literary Competition REVIEWED BY: Makewana’s Daughters In 2008, a team comprising of the Malawi Writers Union (MAWU) and Stephanie Bosch from Cambridge organized a writing...

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Interview with Ingrid Nayame

  Ingrid Nayame is an award-winning Zambian novelist and self-published author of three books titled The Last Laugh, The Coloured Vine and Cupid’s Arrow printed in 2017, 2018 and 2020 respectively. Her first novel was...