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Katie is an AiW co-founder and a freelance editor (academic, non-fiction & fiction / script & exhibition text). Global literary and creative arts, Critical Theory, and cultural studies and/as activism - with a special focus in South Africa. Also known to be partial to formula-driven ("rubbish") watching.
- Prizewinning lecturer and widening participation to HE advocate, who has taught in literary, art history and cultural studies, with an area focus in southern Africa, since 2011. Workshops critical thinking, writing, and editing skills, focusing on finding freedom in collaborative conversation with others.
- Primary interests in creative-critical work that has text/image relations at heart, architectural and city forms, and the unexpectedly multi-modal.
- PhD (2017) looked at contexts of reception of post-apartheid literature through the various modes of the work of Ivan Vladislavić, a writer, editor, and reflexive art-essayist, whose time as Social Studies and Fiction Editor for radical publisher Ravan Press in the 80s included editing the groundbreaking magazine Staffrider.
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AiW at the 2018 Edinburgh International Books Festival – Freedom.
AiW are gearing up for Edinburgh International Books Festival – beginning tomorrow Aug 11 – and this year’s series of books events on the theme of freedom, through which the Festival “calls upon its authors, participants and audiences to consider… Read More ›
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Longform Q&A: Margie Orford, ‘Queen of South African crime fiction’
Margie Orford – ‘the Queen of South African crime fiction’ – is also an award-winning journalist, photographer, film director, and children’s author. Her internationally acclaimed literary crime fiction novels, featuring her journalist lead Clare Hart who assists the police investigating… Read More ›
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Some South African Literary Events in focus this week
Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu who has won the #EtisalatPrize2014 #EtisalatPrizeforLiterature! — pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) March 15, 2015 As South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, with his novel Penumbra (Kwela, 2013), is announced as the winner of the second Etisalat Prize for Literature –… Read More ›
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Terra incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.
Short Story Day Africa‘s second collection of short stories Terra Incognita is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Africa, featuring the top nineteen stories from SSDA’s 2014 competition, edited this year by Nerine Dorman. This carefully curated collection is harvested from entries… Read More ›
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Damon Galgut at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 19 Aug, 2014
An Edinburgh International Book Festival session with Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer (Umuzi/Atlantic, 2014). Part of the Book Festival’s ‘Voices from South Africa’ theme. Chaired by Claire Armitstead (Books Editor at the Guardian and the Observer). Arctic Summer is South African writer… Read More ›
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Voices from South Africa – at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, 9-25 August 2014
Africa in Words is very excited to be back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, “the world’s largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh”. Tickets for all events are available now from the… Read More ›
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Blogging the Caine Prize: Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’
A story about waste – human waste – in immaculate prose, Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’ has, for me, a quality of suspension. On the one hand, it’s about the defiant resistance of ‘an old lady’ against loss, of her habitual daily… Read More ›
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Perhaps you missed… some South African-born short (plus a bit of long) fiction news
Some fiction news from South Africa in these last few weeks – the shorts: Twenty in 20 – a call for your bests of the South African short story since 1994 | the Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine (27th… Read More ›
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Marli Roode, ‘Call it Dog’ and Achmat Dangor’s ‘Strange Pilgrimages’ – after Edinburgh Book Festival, 2013
This post draws together reflections on two sessions from the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013, featuring books from or about South Africa – one called Getting Over Apartheid with award-winning South African author Achmat Dangor (unfortunately, Sindiwe Magona had to cancel, so Dangor appeared alone), and another… Read More ›
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Black Letter Media – call for speculative fiction submissions (Africa wide)
Black Letter Media Africa-wide call for unpublished speculative fiction (in English) Novel-length manuscripts They say, “Until the lion learns to speak the take of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. Our vision, therefore, is to give voice to the… Read More ›
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Q&A: Henrietta Rose-Innes – ‘New Voices from South Africa’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Henrietta Rose-Innes is an award-winning South African writer based in Cape Town. I was lucky enough to be able to catch her at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in advance of her session, ‘New Voices from South Africa’, which is on the… Read More ›
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Preliminary Call for Interest: New Universities Project, South Africa
New Universities Project, South Africa School of Heritage, Northern Cape Preliminary Call for Interest Two new universities will open in South Africa in 2014/15. These are the first universities to be launched by the South African government since the move… Read More ›
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The ‘Broken Hill’ skull (Lusaka National Museum collection) – Pratchaya Phinthong @ Chisenhale Gallery, London
PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG | ‘BROKEN HILL’ Chisenhale Gallery, London | 26 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER 2013 Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Bangkok based artist Pratchaya Phinthong for his first solo exhibition in the UK. Broken Hill explores the… Read More ›
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The Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2013
This year sees the new edition of Modjaji Books’ Small Publishers’ Catalogue, which updates the first edition of 2010. Publishing Perspectives have called this one ‘a beauty’, and indeed it is, in concept and design. The print copy is, again, a lovely size, great… Read More ›