Keith Oliver Lewis is a poet from Smartie Town, Paarl. His work is long-listed for the Sol Plaatje European Union Award. Keith has been published in Yesterdays and Imagining Realities, New Contrast Literary Magazine, Ake [...]
Ingrid de Kok is the award-winning author of 7 collections of poetry. Her most recent is Unleaving, Fourthwall Books, 2024. Vetplant Fairies is her children’s book in collaboration with poet Antjie Krog & artist Fiona Moodie Her work has been [...]
Laniëlle Hartzenberg is an award-nominated South African poet and cultural producer rooted in her Khoi lineage. Her neurodivergent perspective shapes her work, which weaves resistance and creative healing while amplifying queer Indigenous narratives. Her poetry [...]
Colin Wardle has spent much of his career asking awkward questions for a living. He has worked as a writer, producer, political adviser, communications strategist, and lecturer, which means he’s professionally qualified to interrupt people [...]
Malusi Ntoyapi is a Programmes and Innovation Manager at the HCI Foundation, where he supports a wide range of South African not for profit organisations in contributing to the building of a thriving, sustainable country. [...]
Niamh Ahern is a writer, researcher, and editor currently based between Oxford, Cape Town, and Youghal. She completed a BA(Hons) in Afrikaans at the University of Cape Town and a Master’s in World Literatures in [...]
Ntombenhle Shezi is a writer, researcher, documentary filmmaker, and organiser whose work explores the intersection of art, creative methodologies, and transformative justice. She is also a brand and communications strategist with a unique ability to [...]
Nic le Roux is a trans-identified activist and scholar working at the intersection of anti-racism, spatial justice, and LGBT politics. In addition to teaching tertiary students in queer and feminist studies, they have worked extensively [...]
Mavis Smallberg has been a member of cultural collectives such as Vakalisa and the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW), who raised awareness through poetry and performances at anti-apartheid events from the early 1980s.She participated [...]
Sibusiso Lundi Mnyanda is an author, historian, broadcaster, and Head of Curatorial Research at Victory of the Word (VOW), an organisation conceived by artist Athi-Patra Ruga to preserve and revive the archive at the Lovedale [...]
Paul Kammies is a writer and dramaturg from Cape Town. Kammies has published work for Klyntji, Litnet, and Norient. He is an Afrikaans editor for New Contrast Literary Magazine. In 2025 he was awarded the Netwerk24 kykNET [...]
Nokwanda Sihlali is a South African poet and researcher whose work examines how the world is shaped by gender, memory, inequality and land. Drawing on sociological and legal perspectives, she explores how power operates through everyday life, [...]
Athi-Patra Ruga is a South African artist whose research-led practice spans performance, film, tapestry, stained glass, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. His work explores archives, spirituality, colonial histories, and speculative world-building to examine how contemporary art [...]
Puseletso Tsotetsi is an honours-qualified filmmaker, Mandela Washington Fellowship alumna, digital marketing strategist, and the author of two romance novels. She began her storytelling career in film and television before building a career in digital [...]
Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller, and subsequently jointly won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Her [...]
Donica Merhazion is the author of Born at the End of the World, a debut historical novel inspired by her family’s experiences during Ethiopia’s Red Terror, a difficult period in the region’s history. Born in [...]
Shawn Buck moved to Cape Town 12 years ago from America to work in South Africa’s social impact sector. While working as a nonprofit consultant during the day, he started the Cape Town chapter of [...]
Jessica Powers is founder and publisher of Catalyst Press (www.catalystpress.org), which has specialized in publishing African writers since its founding in 2016. This year marks both its tenth anniversary and the publication of two hundred [...]
