Charles Cilliers

Charles Cilliers was born in 1979 and wrote his first novel when he was 18. The gods, in their wisdom, made his hard drive crash so no one would ever have to read it – and then made sure he was sent to do a master’s degree in creative writing at UCT, which involved creating a story about a bunch of people who all dream about being murdered by the same serial killer. The gods allowed that story to survive.

After that, he published his first book, a true story about Gayton McKenzie, a hardened gangster who’d spent 10 years in prison. He has since written other books and has had short fiction published in Something Wicked, Bookly and online soon Wordsmack Publishers. He currently works as books editor at City Press in Johannesburg, where he’s paid for his efforts, for the most part, in free books. The rest of the time, he’s a subeditor, for which he’s paid in money.

His most recent work, the short story A Grain of Sand, has recently been published on Amazon Kindle and follows a brilliant mathematician as he fulfils his most gruesome destiny.