Theresa Sylvester
Theresa Sylvester is a Zambian writer based in Western Australia. She is a 2023 Faber Writing Academy Scholarship recipient (Allen & Unwin Australia). In 2022, she won the Quarterly West Prose Contest and the Black Fox Writing Contest. Her stories appear in Black Warrior Review, midnight & indigo, and in Australia’s Rockingham Writers Centre anthology.
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Atonement
Maya is standing on the pavement, watching coaches spit out passengers into the open arms of family and friends. She hopes first-timers are aware of Lusaka’s thirst for fresh blood. This city can sniff the dreams of starry-eyed youthful men and women the second they get off at Inter-city bus terminus. Maya shakes her head. […]
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On “Atonement”: A Conversation with Theresa Sylvester
Associate editor Moriah Katz and author Theresa Sylvester discuss the creative process behind Sylvester’s short story, “Atonement,” featured in volume 73.1. of Shenandoah. Read “Atonement” here. Who are you and how did you find your way to writing? I’m a Lusaka girl. I was raised in a suburb called Olympia Park and […]