TRADE SECRETS, tales with a twist, foreword by Yewande Omotoso

296pp., paperback, (Cape Town), 2017

The fifth Short. Sharp. Stories Awards anthology, a platform for showcasing established and emerging South African fiction writers.

The Best Story Award went to Mishka Hoosen for her story, "Wedding Henna"

"The stories come from a wide range of external geographies and internal experiences, opening seams of contemporary experience from the most personal  places of loss, violation, recovery and aspiration." Liesl Jobson, 2017 judge

Writer and editor Joanne Hichens has edited a number of short story anthologies including Bad Company and The Bed Book of Short Stories. Her crime novels include Divine Justice and Sweet Paradise. She lives in Cape Town.