I’ve been so fortunate to work with incredible people, teams and brands this year and I’m grateful to be doing the kind of work that I’m doing, working on various touch points of the literary, publishing, design, social media, advertising and media industries and loving every minute. So without further ado, a selection of this year’s career highlights.
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This short story, The Glassblower’s Daughter, was first published by Enkare Review and later on Fresh Ink. It is now without a home so I thought I’d give it one on my website.
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Start-up life is really different from what I’m used to but I’m loving it so far and have already learned a ton! Here are three important things I’ve taken away from the experience so far.
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“I wrote a book about my failures as a father. ” Rofhiwa Maneta just dropped his essay collection, ‘Your Father, The Hip Hop Head’.
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I read some new and old poems at Off the Wall Poetry tonight (21 June). This was my first time performing or reading my poetry at Off the Wall, and it felt really good to be there, even though it was over Zoom (in a way it worked for me, though, given that I don’t actually live in Cape Town anymore).
My latest book cover design project is for the cover of Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa.
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“This too shall pass. The world will expand again. We will stretch our bodies and apply aftersun to burned shoulders. We will hold one another in bed and on the street and at worship and in a restaurant. We will feel more than elbows and read more than emails.”
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“I share this because 6 years ago around this time my life was turned upside down in ways I couldn't have foretold (although strangely enough my fiction would argue otherwise), and I would think for many years that I was not worthy of being my son's Mom, that I had thrown away so much by having him at the wrong time - which was, again, that linear motion of "success" talking when it should have kept quiet and let me be my woowoo self with my development like tree rings rather than a neat A-B-Z.”
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If you would like to support a potentially-best selling novelist, you’d go a long way in helping me take time off from my day job (from time to time) to get this baby written, by PayPaling me. No amount is too big or too small.
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Thabiso Mahlape of Black Bird Books commissioned me to design the book cover for Black Bird’s latest offering in the way of anthologies, Exhale - a collection of Queer African Erotic Fiction.
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The amazing Foreo team sent me the Luna 2 for combination skin, a washing device designed to address a multitude of skincare concerns (for me, that means tending to sensitive, acne-prone skin and minor anti-ageing concerns). Luna 2 launches in South Africa next week - 22 October - and I’m super excited to be test driving such a fun, effective product.
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What I’m reading, writing, designing and waiting for this month.
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Interview with MANCOSA lecturer, Michelle Naude, for World Literacy Day 2020.
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“Rage and reflection are held in perfect tension in Jacques Coetzee’s An Illuminated Darkness, published by uHlanga Press. In poems that range from confessional to conversational in tone, imbued with Coetzee’s signature musicality, the poet portrays an emotional landscape with rich, sensuous detail.”
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