Author Archives: PUBLISH'D AFRIKA

Nash’s Return – The Incomplete Ritual “Nashitsevhe lost everything. He got terribly sick. Over the years he has brought many other girls to Kajengo, in a desperate bid to get his life back, his wealth and influence. It was all in vain. Kajengo kept telling him the same thing. He has to find you andContinue reading “Excerpt: A Woman’s Essence”

Page Turner Awards Is Calling On All Writers Aged Between 18 And 25 The Page Turner Awards offers writers the chance to enter the first 10 pages of a completed, unpublished fiction or non-fiction manuscript, where a group of literary agents will read the work. Last year three writers won a literary agent, five writersContinue reading “Calling On All Young Writers”

Sign Up, Submit, Publish And Get Paid That’s how easy it is to get paid for your poetry, prose or letter to the editor. Payments vary from $10 per line of poetry to $150 for prose, and you can submit your work throughout the year, as long as it is previously unpublished work.What kind ofContinue reading “Sign Up, Submit, Publish And Get Paid”

American Author Eve Fairbanks Speaks In Soweto If you have always wondered what the book, The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of a Brave and Bewildered Nation, is all about, then your opportunity to pose questions directly to the author has literally landed on your stoep.Author Eve Fairbanks will be at the Soweto Book Café, 1023Continue reading “There’s A Mlungu On My Stoep!”

THEME: KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TITLE: Her Damages Written by Bongiwe Chonco I had always been mesmerised by his brown, muscular body. It was what had attracted me to him. The thought of his proud, handsome face had always put a silly grin on my face, but as I looked at him as we stood inContinue reading “PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Facebook Short Story Competition – April 2023 Leg/ Bongiwe Chonco”

THEME: KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TITLE: SILENCE Written by Nala Nxumalo “The voices in my head – they are getting too loud…” Those were the last words my father said to me. It was the 23rd of April when my gut told me to call him. I asked how he was doing and that’s all IContinue reading “PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Facebook Short Story Competition – April 2023 Leg/ Nala Nxumalo”

THEME: KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TITLE: Tears That Never Really Dry Written by  Kaluwe Haangala His pudgy little cute face made me want to smile. My little man is going to be a handsome heart breaker, is what I would have had in mind if he hadn’t just unburdened of his woeful thoughts. “I hate children.Continue reading “PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Facebook Short Story Competition – April 2023 Leg/ Kaluwe Haangala”

THEME: KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TITLE: The owl Reaper Written by Nisah Ngomane Time flies when it is moving towards your demise. That was the case for me. I should’ve figured out the details of my fate when Gogo was telling us the story that night. When she told us the terrifying story of the owl,Continue reading “PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Facebook Short Story Competition – April 2023 Leg/ Nisah Ngomane”

THEME: KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TITLE: Crooked Cromwell and Crooked People Written by Lovelorn Happy Khumalo Residents of the Cromwell building were vulgar as the building, they walked with bent backs and sighed every time before they entered the building. The tilted label written ‘CROMWELL’ depressed them more; it reminded them of the dreams that madeContinue reading “PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Magazine Facebook Short Story Competition – April 2023 Leg/ Lovelorn Happy Khumalo”