Cornelia Fick

Biography

Cornelia Smith Fick was longlisted for the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award (2016), the erbacce award (2021) and highly commended in The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (2020). Her debut collection Eye of a Needle: And Other stories, was published in 2017. Her stories and poems are in EXPERIMENTAL WRITING: Volume 1, Africa VS Latin America; Fractured poetics: a poetry anthology; Soho Square V, Bloomsbury; To breathe into another voice, a poetry/jazz anthology; Ladyboxbooks; Poetry Potion; Spelk; New Contrast and Atlanta Review among others. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of the Western Cape.

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Videos

Thought of a soldier
A story from Eye of a Needle: And other stories

Books

Eye of a Needle: And Other Stories
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 46,170. Language: English (South African dialect). Published: September 30, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » African, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Set in contemporary South Africa, Eye of a Needle investigates the complex relationships between men and women, and among women. Recurring themes are the battles of women, their abuse, the experience of being the outsider, and the difficulties of growing old. Told in the first, second and third person the stories in the collection are designed to take the reader on a journey into the real SA.

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