​ The Search for Othella Savage (2025) touches on themes that are common in contemporary Literature from the sub-region.

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honoured literary project in America - including Highest Honours from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.This is a placeholder paragraph. Replace this text with your own content.

Bridgette James fiercely combats the assertion: There are no gems in Ogaga Ifowodo's shortlisted collection.

Thélyson Orélien, Are Ethnic Writers Only Being Demonised?

Dennis Brutus - South Africa A troubadour, I traverse all my land exploring all her wide-flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with amorous hand and I have laughed, disdaining those whose banned inquiry and movement, delighting in the test of will when doomed by Saracened arrest, choosing, like unarmed thumb, simply to stand

Because globalization represents the many, and the knowledge that cultures are vast and different, but also holders of universal characteristics that tie them together in simple ways. We all must eat.

They didn’t even compile a manuscript, nor have they ever got back to me with the books. I reported the matter to their local police but even they can't locate the company owner. He has terminated all contact with me via email, social media and WhatsApp...in other words I was led up the garden path.

What is imagery in storytelling or poetry? It is a word picture a writer creates. We want imagery to be organic; that is, it must engage all the reader’s senses so they are transported into another world, however transient that elopement is.

I fell in love with poetry as a child, as my mother used to read us poetry instead of children's books (thanks, Ma; I was doomed from the start). My favorite poem that both my brother and I adored was Alfred Noyes's “The Highwayman.”

Now more than ever is it important to save draft copies of your manuscript or written work.

Now that you are carefully hunting for the perfect word, let's talk about using those words to create startling and unforgettable images. Words can do more than merely describe reality. A powerful metaphor doesn't explain what something is like; it makes us experience it in an entirely new way. Metaphor comes from the ancient Greek root word metaphora, meaning “carry across.” These figures of speech allow us to carry across meaning from one word to another. By doing so, we

I am Dr. Jive Lubbungu, and I am honoured to step in as the new Editor-in-Chief of Penned in Rage Journal. This journal has always been a home for voices that don't whisper. It's where we write through anger, grief, love, and hope—and turn all of it into something that moves people. That's not changing.

Poetry is not dead. Do you hear me? It’s not just for people in posh universities or old people at tea parties. Poetry is alive, goddammit! Poetry has a history almost as long as humanity itself. Before we held poetry up as art, it played a far more important role—that of memory. Through rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, people passed on their history and the memory of their people. In this way, spoken poetry predates writing itself.

Greetings, fellow poets! I am Janine, an aspiring poet from the tip of Africa, surrounded by balmy ocean. I am a graduate in theory of literature and creative writing and a published short story writer and poet. I was lucky enough to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize last year.

South Africa is a nation battling unemployment, crime and inequality—many countries face the same struggles. A country that once stood as Africa's greatest symbol of justice, is now too often linked to images of fellow Africans fleeing violence, watching their businesses burn, or living in fear simply because of where they were born.

SUMMARY: In this article I will demonstrate how a poem suspected to have been created using generative-AI, led me to a hit song of a Californian singer, songwriter, and performer: Kat Leon, who’s also the frontwoman of the band Holy Wars, (Section 16) and to a Frontiers Research article about Ants and Microplastics.

Ekta Somera is a South African storyteller. She is the founder of Paper Trail Literary Press and works as a publisher, bringing visions to life and turning ideas into books.

It's nigh impossible to promote writing by creatives who do not want to compromise their privacy.

The only definitive way to confirm that a piece was the product of an algorithm is, unfortunately, a direct confession from the creator. Not AI checkers nor our intuition.

In the winning poem: ‘The Etymology of Homesickness,’ as well as being pivoted into the world of Janine Milne’s changeling protagonist, the reader is confronted with Milne’s attempt at redefining homesickness.