Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey is a poet, short story writer and publisher living in Johannesburg. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the latest being Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata, 2024). In 2009 he published Who was Sinclair Beiles?, a compilation of writings about the South African Beat poet, co-edited with Eva Kowalska. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2014. His short fiction collection Off-ramp was a finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award. From 2014 to 2016 he was editor of New Coin, one of South Africa’s oldest and most prestigious poetry journals.

Host: Stuart Payne

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Jerome Coetzee

Jerome Coetzee is a writer, poet, and Artistic Director for the Centre of Excellence Bishop Lavis. His research focus is on Afrofuturism in contemporary Afrikaans Literature. He has previously been published in LitNet, The Wee Sparrow poetry press (2022), is a National Poetry Prize winner (2021) and was on the longlist for the Sol Plaatje European Union Award (2022). He cowrote a play A pot of Pap at the End of the Rainbow Nation (2024) and a documentary Cooking up Feminism (2025) for Food Agency Cape Town.

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Elizabeth Trew

Elizabeth Trew, born and raised in Cape Town, left and returned thirty years later in 1991.

She has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Wits MA in English Education. A former librarian and adult education teacher in England a

d Johannesburg, her poems are published in journals and anthologies and a short story in Prodigal Daughters: stories of South African Women in Exile, KZN Press, 2013, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo. She was short-listed for the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Anthology, 2013. Her debut collection is My Mother the Seal, Hands-On Books, 2023. She is a language-editor and volunteers at a Cape Town girls’ shelter.

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