Manthipe Moila

Manthipe Moila is a poet from Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a BA Hons. in English Literature. She has been published in various online and offline publications including New Contrast, Tupelo Quarterly, Agbowó, and A Long House with work forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal. A Best of the Net Nominee, she is also a Charles Simic Poetry Contest finalist (Hole in the Head Review) as well as a Prufer Poetry Prize finalist (Pleiades). She is currently based in Seoul, South Korea, surrounded by far too many houseplants.

Press Kit:  Moila - Rootbound Press Kit

Website: https://manthipemoila.squarespace.com 

Host: Zizipho Bam

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Lethube Phaladi

Lethube Hellen Phaladi was born in Ga-Seroka in Sekhukhune. A poet and aspiring novelist, her poem ‘Shai, Isaac Shai’ was awarded first prize in the AVBOB Poetry Competition in 2022 in the English Category. She has been published in Stanzas and New Coin poetry magazines. Lethube has recorded six videos in both Sepedi and English, performing some of her poems on Facebook under the name Hellen L Idiory, and is currently working on a project called ‘Makete’, a short story about GBV and young women. 

Host: Julia Smuts Louw

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Simon van Schalkwyk

Simon Van Schalkwyk, author of Transcontinental Delay, is Senior Lecturer of English Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and formerly Visiting Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). He is co-editor for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies and academic editor for the Johannesburg Review of Books.

Host: Stuart Payne

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