Author: The Coinage Team

Jeannie Wallace McKeown lives in Makhanda (previously Grahamstown) and works full-time at Rhodes University. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes, and has had poems published in New Coin, New Contrast, Poetry Potion, Aerodrome and other literary journals. Her work appears in the anthologies Voices Of This Land 2nd Edition, For Rhino in a…

Christine Coates, a poet and writer from Cape Town, holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poems and stories have been published in various local and international literary journals. Her debut poetry collection Homegrown, published in 2014, by Modjaji Books, received an honourable mention from the Glenna Luschei Prize. Her second collection, Fire Drought Water, was…

Mandisi is a South African writer, drummer, composer, and producer. He currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa. His fiction has been published in the likes of Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers, and Omenana. His poetry has been published in The Coinage Book One, and his academic work featured in The Thinker. He is also a proud charter…

Sinaso is a young South African writer who started writing in 2008 inspired by her love for books. Her poems mainly deal with themes of healing, change and finding one’s voice in the world we live. Her work has been published online in sites such as Voicesnet, Fundza, Poetry Potion, Ja Mag SA, The Pangolin…

Following an illustrious career in corporate communication that spanned 20 years, Karin took a year off to explore her love of writing and storytelling. As a freelancer, she also operates under “all things creative”, a company which specialises in event planning, book design and layout, corporate and branding identity, photography, video production and copy-writing. 2018…