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Barbara Boswell’s new book inscribes Black womxn into the academy
On Africa day, 25 May 2020, we had a wonderful surprise for our followers. On Instagram live, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane sat in conversation with award-winning author Barbara Boswell to discuss her first novel ‘Grace’ and to reveal the big surprise – Boswell’s new title. Boswell will be releasing her new title with Wits Press. The new […]
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Cheeky Natives · Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half “The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.” Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of […]
Brandon Taylor and Paul Mendez: Real Life and Rainbow Milk
Cheeky Natives · Brandon Taylor and Paul Mendez: Real Life and Rainbow Milk “It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would meet his friends at the pier after all.” – Brandon Taylor “Jesse’s alarm went off at seven, but he’d barely slept. He […]
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QnA with Keletso Mopai
Writer Keletso Mopai, tackles mental health, queerness and the undeniable power of the Balobedu Rain Queen, in her short story collection. Keletso Mopai hails from Lenyenye, a township located 20km from Tzaneen, Limpopo. The township is well known as a place where Mamphela Ramphele was banished by the apartheid regime from 1977–1984. It is also […]
Barbara Boswell’s new book inscribes Black womxn into the academy
On Africa day, 25 May 2020, we had a wonderful surprise for our followers. On Instagram live, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane sat in conversation with award-winning author Barbara Boswell to discuss her first novel ‘Grace’ and to reveal the big surprise – Boswell’s new title. Boswell will be releasing her new title with Wits Press. The new […]
The Finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards
This year OprahMag.com exclusively announced the finalists of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda has for 30 years honoured the LGBTQ community’s longstanding contribution to literature. This year’s nominees include some of our favourite writers at The Cheeky Natives. Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy has been shortlisted for Lesbian fiction. We featured Nicole discussing this book […]
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“lonely, ain't it?”
"yes, but my lonely is mine. now your lonely is somebody else's. made by somebody else and handed to you. ain't that something? a secondhand lonely.”
― toni morrison, sula
Chile, I got published today. After so long – not that I’ve been submitting though, I’m very awkward with submissions, I tend to hog my work. And, yes, I am going to enjoy the hell out of this beer. ❤️
African literary production really needs more structures. so yeah, start that litmag, open that literary blog, launch that publishing house, set up that literary agency, build that bookstore, create those classes/workshops, etc. someone somewhere needs it. just do it. ❤️