Category: recent posts
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ABOUT: Jeannie Wallace Mckeown
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…
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ABOUT: Christine Coates
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…
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ABOUT: Mandisi Nkomo
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…
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ABOUT: Sinaso Mxakaza
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…
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ABOUT: Karin Henriques
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…
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Chat with Mihlali
Firstly, tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Mihlali Songcaka, I’ll be 25 in September. I was born in Mthatha, Eastern Cape. I speak IsiXhosa as well as English, Sesotho/Setswana and Afrikaans. I used to play rugby and I started writing poetry in 2012. What were you like at school? I had a…
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Imbokodo (Winnie Mandela)
You saved us, You fought for us, Inspired our mothers and sisters around Africa and the world. Showed man and woman, and embodied, Strength, Courage, Vision. Showing us as the nation, Never to back down and to keep fighting, You left us and into dark holes, Our hearts fell, Mama Imbokodo, To the nation, The…
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Kansas City Shuffle: Valentines Edition
Whoever said that nothing good nor contrustuve could come from a WhatsApp group clearly hasn’t been me for the past few days. Were it not for our girl’s group, I truly would not have realised that yesterday was Valentine’s day, wasn’t it? No…. I mean, there wasn’t much red, white and pink around, and lest…