Our work in Film & TV
Our latest books
The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!
Volume 4
Using religion as a theme and jumping off point, the stories both celebrate and are critical of organized religion in today’s Africa. Includes the winning story, “Omo omo omo” by Ope Adedeji.
Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts
Zukiswa Wanner
Ten years after her first book was published, Zukiswa Wanner leaves her Nairobi home on an adventure-filled road trip with her partner and son.
Sundown and Other Stories
edited by Emmanuel Sigauke
An Writivism anthology featuring the Short Story Prize Story Sundown by Acan Innocent Immaculate, the Creative Non-Fiction winner, Lost Futures, or A Guide to Losing Love by YKO Tetteh.
Poetry Potion 14
This Way We Salute You
The theme for this edition of Poetry Potion borrows itself from the collection This way I salute you by the late Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile.
current work On TV
13 part series on Mzansi Magic
Logline: A young woman goes into a cult hoping to save her family, but she gets sucked in.
Philiswa is a young woman whose life plan are brought to a halt when her sister, Nomonde, who has been the sole caretaker of their family stops paying Philiswa’s varsity fees and disappears. Philiswa’s search leads her to a church where Nomonde is in trouble. Philiswa realises that this place is a cult that takes advantage of desperate people and in her search to find and free Nomonde, she uncovers family secrets that threaten to destroy her and Nomonde.
