Kobus Moolman

KOBUS MOOLMAN

Kobus has published seven collections of poetry, two collections of plays, a collection of

short stories and also edited an anthology of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities. He is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He has won numerous local and international awards for his work. His most recent publication collection is Fall Risk (uHlanga Press, 2024). In his writing and research Kobus explores the relationship between the non-normative body and experimental textual practices that challenge generic boundaries.

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Allan Kolski Horwitz

ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ grew up in Cape Town. Between 1974 and

1985 he lived in the Middle East, Europe and North America, returning to

South Africa in 1986. A member of the Botsotso Jesters performance poetry

group, he is the co-ordinator of Botsotso Publishing and the Botsotso

Ensemble. He has previously worked in the trade union and social housing

movements as an organizer and educator. He lives in Johannesburg.

His solo books of poetry are entitled Saving Water, There are Two

Birds at My Window and The Colours of Our Flag. His short fiction is

contained in three collections – Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage

and Meditations of a Non-White White He has also written a children’s

parable, Blue Wings and a novel, The Chronicles of Shalom Court.

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Nkateko Masinga

Nkateko Masinga is a South African writer, performance poet and scholar whose interests traverse the intersections between narrative medicine, life writing and social justice. She is intrigued by the stories of individuals who exist at the margins of society, while her current work explores the complex and often tumultuous relationships that daughters have with their mothers. Nkateko's latest book, Daughter Wound, was published by UK publisher Hazel Press in 2024, and she was shortlisted for the Evaristo Prize for African Poetry in the same year. She has received translations of her work in French, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada and Romanian.

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