Meet the 2012 Caine Prize Shortlisted writers, chaired by Tricia Wombell (Black Book News/Black Reading Group) and Jacqueline Auma (London Afro-Caribbean Book Club).

The shortlisted writers are: Rotimi Babatunde, Billy Kahora, Stanley Kenani, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, and Constance Myburgh. Their short stories are available to read online on the Caine Prize’s website and will be published with the 2012 workshop stories in the annual Caine Prize anthology ‘African Violet and Other Stories’ in June 2012 by New Internationalist. The anthology will be on sale at this event. You can read more about the five shortlisted writers on the speakers page.