We are proud to announce new works forthcoming in 2020 from Kopano Maroga, Jacques Coetzee and Sihle Ntuli, granting new perspectives on the local, the global, and the self.
These books were selected from manuscripts submitted during our open submissions period last year. (There will not be an open reading period this year.) Also, these are not the only books we are publishing in 2020 – more on that next month!
Photo by Katinka Bester
Kopano Maroga (Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations; second quarter, 2020) is a performance artist, writer, cultural worker and co-director of the dance, movement and embodied politics publication and performance platform ANY BODY ZINE. They are a Masters candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies in Public Spheres and Performance Studies at the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town. They very much believe in the power of love as weapon of mass construction. They currently live and work in Ghent, Belgium as a programmer and dramaturg for Kunstencentrum Vooruit.
Jacques Coetzee (working title: Unscripted Music; second quarter, 2020) matriculated from the Pioneer School for the Blind in Worcester. In 2002 he obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. He has worked as a busker at the Cape Town Waterfront, and tutored English literature to first- and second-year university students. In 2018, he and Barbara Fairhead launched their joint anthology of poems, The Love Sheet, which was published by Hands On Books, an imprint of Modjaji. He currently lives in Cape Town, where he is a singer-songwriter in the band Red Earth & Rust.
Photo by Niamh Walsh-Vorster
Sihle Ntuli (Rumblin', a chapbook; third quarter, 2020) is a 29-year-old writer based in Durban. He holds an MA in Classical Civilizations from Rhodes University, Makhanda. He is the winner of the 2019 CTL Innovation Award for Curriculum Design and Delivery, and his work has appeared in New Contrast, Agbowo II: Limits Issue & Brittle Paper presents 20:35 Africa Volume II.
Release dates and advance information of each collection will be announced later in the year.