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Short Story Prize overall winner announced We are delighted to announce Chanel Sutherland as the overall winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View Now

Selina Tusitala Marsh appointed the inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate

For the first time in its 75-year history, the Commonwealth of Nations has a Poet Laureate.

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Razmi Farook appointed as Commonwealth Foundation’s Director-General

As Dr Anne T. Gallagher AO’s second and final term concludes, Razmi Farook will take the helm as ambassador for civil society in the Commonwealth.

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The Commonwealth Foundation's online literary magazine of new writing is known as adda. Read fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

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