Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbis Lets Tell This Story Properly, alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

If These Walls Had Ears is by New Zealands Carl Nixon.

Carl Nixon lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. His collection of stories,Fish n Chip Shop Song and Other Stories, was published in 2006 and was number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific region.