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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.

• Bookings open: History, Postcolonialism and Tradition – Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  History, Postcolonialism and Tradition Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association 12-13 September 2013. Kingston University. Bookings have now opened for the Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, History, Postcolonialism and Tradition taking place on the 12 – 13 September 2013 at Penrhyn… Read More ›

• CFP: Transatlantic Africas – Special Issue of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Proposals for papers/abstracts should reach the editors by 1 April, 2013. The editors of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society invite contributions for a special issue on “Transatlantic Africa” to be published in 2014. The special issue will focus on recent… Read More ›

• CFP: 4th Global Conference – Space and Place.

  By Katie Reid on 2 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience… Read More ›

• CFP: Sites of Memory – an interdisciplinary postgraduate-led conference and interactive workshop at the University of Birmingham

  By Katie Reid on 19 December , 2012 • ( 0 )

  SITES OF MEMORY – Friday 22 February 2013 Call for Papers – deadline 7th January 2013 How is memory related to physical space, objects and texts? How do different disciplines conceptualise memory? How do we research and write about memory? “Sites of Memory”… Read More ›

• Concept-driven African pulp fiction – extracts from Jungle Jim magazine

  By Katie Reid on 30 November , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Has having heard so much about the African pulp fiction mag Jungle Jim from its co-creator and editor, Jenna Bass (part I of our interview is here), left you wanting, wondering what might be lurking between its distinctive blue and red covers? How the… Read More ›

• Q&A: (Pt 2) Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 20 November , 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  (Click here for part I.) This, part II of Katie’s interview with Jenna Bass at Jungle Jim, takes us further into the mag, opening up questions of genre – popular, pulp and science-fiction in Africa and South Africa – plus more on the… Read More ›

• Q&A: (Pt 1) Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 13 November , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  (Part 2 of this interview is here…) Genre fiction and the rise of African sci-fi; the establishment of literary networks across the continent; the status of independent publishing and bookselling, as well as the significance of DIY ethics and aesthetics in… Read More ›

• Africa in Motion – Scotland African Film Festival: 25 October – 2 November.

  By Katie Reid on 10 October , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  More dates for your film diary: As well as Film Africa 2012 (see Jenny Greenshields’ AiW post on Film Africa here),  there’s Africa in Motion – in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

• Nick Barley on the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference at Open Book Festival, Cape Town

  By Katie Reid on 25 September , 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Quick update on the previous posts about the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, hosting the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference with 3 events – Censorship Today – a keynote by author Keith Gray, chaired by Mervyn Sloman, the Director of Open… Read More ›

• More – Open Book Literary Festival, Cape Town, and the World Writers’ Conference

  By Katie Reid on 17 September , 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Further to the previous post, other events joining ‘Censorship Today’ as part of the World Writers’ Conference at Open Book, Cape Town:  Excited to see that Njabulo Ndebele and Antjie Krog will be in discussion – ‘Should Literature be Political’, 20 September… Read More ›

• The Open Book Literary Festival, Cape Town, hosts the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference: ‘Censorship Today’

  By Katie Reid on 11 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  This year’s Open Book – 20-24 September – builds on the success of last year’s festival, an event which, for many, allowed a  space in Cape Town that hadn’t been available before, of engaged debate, talks, and response, and of exchange. Thank you… Read More ›

• CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on ‘Consumer Practices, Media and Landscapes in South Africa’, University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg.

  By Katie Reid on 15 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  CALL FOR PAPERS Consumer Practices, Media and Landscapes in South Africa: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives A Symposium organized by the Critical Research in Consumer Culture (CRiCC) Network Friday 9 and Saturday 10 November, 2012 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South… Read More ›

• Searching for Sugar Man

  By Katie Reid on 14 August , 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  The less you know about the subject matter of this film before seeing it, the better it is on watching – so I’ll steer clear of spoilers here and say you should definitely avoid the trailer beforehand if you can – but check… Read More ›

• The Cape Town Book Fair 2012 – new directions in fiction (and some recommended reads)

  By Katie Reid on 7 August , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  I was at the Cape Town Book Fair back in June (June 15-17, 2012). I approached a range of publishers and booksellers exhibiting and asked what was ‘new’ for them in South African fiction, and to give me their latest fiction-must-reads –… Read More ›

• CFP: Paradoxa – African Science Fiction

  By Katie Reid on 31 July , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Paradoxa <http://www.paradoxa.com> is seeking submissions of previously unpublished essays on subjects related to AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION. Submissions should be directed to Paradoxa’s guest editor, Mark Bould at mark.bould@gmail.com by March 1, 2013. In 2010, Pumzi, the first Kenyan sf movie, won… Read More ›

• CFP: The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop (IHR)

  By Katie Reid on 10 July , 2012 • ( 0 )

  The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop is currently inviting abstract submissions for the 2012-13 academic year. Established in 2008, the workshop is designed to provide a forum for postgraduates and new researchers to gather and present their work in an informal… Read More ›

• An African play? The RSC’s Julius Caesar, Africa Utopia, and the World Shakespeare Festival

  By Katie Reid on 29 June , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Just two i-Player days left to catch up with the film version of the RSC’s production of Julius Caesar – “Shakespeare’s African play”. Set in a modern day African state after independence, with echoes of contemporary events in the Arab… Read More ›

• CFP – 1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia)

  By Katie Reid on 29 June , 2012 • ( 4 )

  1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia) 7th to 9th February 2013 Sydney, Australia CFP deadline: Friday 14th September, 2012 The intention of this lively inaugural project is to bring together established and emerging international practitioners and… Read More ›

• CFP – What is Africa to me now? (July 15th)

  By Katie Reid on 1 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013

• Last film in Film4’s African Season

  By Katie Reid on 31 May , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Last film in Film4’s African Season – celebrating contemporary African filmmakers – tonight, 31st May. Viva Riva! 11.05pm. Film4. “Rival hustlers hustle for black market gasoline and the affections of the same woman in this stylish action drama from Congolese writer-director… Read More ›