Rhodes University is currently hosting fellows from the last African Humanities Programme (AHP) cohort. Since 2009, the AHP has awarded fellowships to more than 450 early career scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, with the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). The programme that began in 2008-09 was due to conclude in 2020-21 but was extended due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Carol Leff’s ‘The Afropolitan Flâneur in Literature’ marks the third book by Intersecting Diasporas Group (IDG) members launched this year.

Graduate of the Rhodes University Masters in Creative Arts course Mangaliso Buzani recently unveiled his anthology of poems titled Ndisabhala Imibongo (I still write poetry) at Eastern Star Museum.

All systems go for metro book fair THE Mandela Bay Book Fair (MBBF) takes place on 17 and 18 Marchat the PE Opera House.

South African writer, publisher and critic, Dashen Naicker, has been appointed editor of poetry magazine New Coin from 2017.

NEW Brighton jeweller and martial arts instructor Mangaliso Buzani has launched a collection of poetry, Ndisabhala Imibongo, at the National English Literary Museum (Nelm) in Grahamstown.

On 16 October every year, the world celebrates the birthday of Noah Webster, born in 1758, as International Dictionary Day.

Kwela-Ride Dompas! I looked back Dompas! I went through my pockets Not there.

My book club read Penumbra by Songeziwe Mahlangu a few months ago. We were surprised to find that the book had gone as far as getting shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2014, which has since been renamed after Barry Ronge, a mysterious move which shocked some quarters of the South African literary landscape.

MARTIN Koboekae, producer of SABC2's comedy Ga Re Dumele, has launched his second novel, The Cleanser.

'Knock & lock-down phoney miracle politic-crony-oracles/ *most beloved for ‘suicide on the rail tracks’/ trains run through the flesh here/ travel not far for head-slices and skin-pieces,” writes Lesego Rampolokeng

HAZEL CRAMPTON is a writer and artist, author of The Sunburnt Queen and the recently published The Side of the Sun at Noon, and coeditor of Into the Hitherto Unknown: Ensign Beutler's Expedition to the Eastern Cape, 1752. She currently teaches in the Master's in Creative Writing at Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

In the Heat of Shadows brings together a beautiful crafted collection of poems on various themes of freedom, love, despair and longing.

The continued publication of the poetry journal, New Coin, for 50 years this year is a remarkable feat for the literary genre in South Africa

New Coin's 50th anniversary exhibition, which officially launched yesterday (6 July 2014), faces a big future.

The 2014 Wordfest kicked off yesterday with the launch of the new online version of the Dictionary of South African English.

Sabata Mpho Mokae will be launching his novel, Dikeledi, on Friday at the Galeshewe Library.

DFA JOURNALIST, Sabata-mpho Mokae, has been invited to participate in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa later this year.

The Live Poets Society (LIPS), which meets on the first Wednesday of each month, will be hosting a reading by Pietermaritzburg-based poet Kobus Moolman of his latest collection, Left Over (Dye Hard Press), at 5.30 pm for 6 pm on Wednesday, June 4 at A Novel Idea, 157 Blair Atholl Road, Westville North.

Award-winning poet and playwright, Kobus Moolman, will present a reading from his latest collection of poetry, Left Over (Dye Hard Press), at the next Rendezvous of the Live Poets Society (LiPS) on June 4, 2014.

I READ first and foremost because that exercise alone gives me great pleasure. I write because I happen to be weird enough to believe I can fractionally add to the excitement of reading.

Professor Laurence Wright caused some raised eyebrows with his interpretation of Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy during his Shakespeare Birthday Lecture at Rhodes University's Eden Grove on Wednesday 23 April.

To many people Soga Mlandu is just one of the councillors entrusted with bringing service delivery to the people of King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) municipality.

The literary gods are smiling on author and poet SabataMpho Mokae. Just the other day he received the good news that he'd passed his Masters degree in creative writing at Rhodes University.

"How do I translate the nebulous energy of ideas into language, words, in order to convey an image?"

Celebrated author and poet, Sabata-mpho Mokae, has received two M-Net Literary Awards at a ceremony held in Sandton, Gauteng. Both awards are for his debut Setswana novel Ga ke modisa.

Chris Mann, Honorary Professor of Poetry at Rhodes, will be in Italy this week to present the keynote address at an international conference on post-colonial literature.

The latest issue of New Coin magazine, out this month, was edited by Vonani Bila. He is the first black editor in the nearly fifty-year history of this Rhodes University-published poetry magazine which has a national and international reputation.

Rhodes University masters student Sabata-mpho Mokae's novel, Ga ke Modisa, has been shortlisted for the 2013 M-Net Literary Awards. Mokae is completing his MA in creative writing at Rhodes, where his thesis is a novella in English.

Seamus Heaney, the much loved Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner who died in Dublin last week, was no stranger to South Africa.

AWARD-WINNING poet and playwright Kobus Moolman will launch his sixth collection of poems, Left Over (Dye Hard Press), at Ike’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6?pm.

“It’s a novel recording a breakdown,” explains Paul Wessels, former supervisor of newly-published writer Songeziwe Mahlangu.

This year’s first Andrew H. Mellon Foundation fellowship writer-in-residence, Award-winning poet, Dr Kobus Moolman says the residency grants him time to pause and reflect.

LOVE INTERRUPTED is set partially in the university town of Grahamstown and partially in rural Limpopo. The stories in this collection have an intimate feel, like conversations eavesdropped on.

Among the established writers participating in this year’s Masters in Creative Writing course is well-known literary critic, journalist and poet, Sabata-mpho Mokae.

South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape was launched during the Eastern Cape English Educators’ Association biennial conference held at Rhodes at the end of June.

Students of the Rhodes University MA Programme in Creative Writing run from the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) recently showcased their creative talent during the launch of TYHINI, a magazine of their writing.