Stoep Collective

12/06/2026

Get ‘All the Places’ for 40% less! ⛄️

Musawenkosi Khanyile’s poetry collection has “...the ambition and scope of a novel, paired with (and paired down to) minimalist and clear-eyes verse."

❄️👉🏾 Shop the Winter Poetry Sale now: www.mzansibooks.co.za/products/all-the-places

11/06/2026

our latest missive is out.

these are snapshots from a studio in [un]ordinary time:
- thoughts about making people care
- commercial work in a climate crisis
- giving your organisation an edge

🐋🐚 for future love letters from Stoep Collective, sign up here: www.stoepcollective.com/missives

05/06/2026

〰️• a truly gorgeous night celebrating + her literary debut, Among Willows 🪾📗 if you haven’t yet bought your copy, you can order one at the .books website xx

28/05/2026

It’s time to cosy up with a brand new TBR pile 📚❄️

This June, selected uHlanga titles from 2022 and earlier are 40% off, exclusively online through 🧣

➡️ Get browsing: www.mzansibooks.co.za/collections/uhlanga-press 

22/05/2026

The board and editors of New Contrast journal stand with J M Coetzee — we honour his decision to decline to participate in the Jerusalem Festival and deplore the selective publication of his correspondence with the organizers. This act, intended to cause injury, has instead sparked collective support for John from fellow writers and bodies like the National Writers Association of South Africa and Pen South Africa for his empathy and solidarity with Palestinians and for refusing to erase the genocide in Gaza.

New Contrast joins our fellow writers and artists in standing with John, whom we honour as a writer, teacher and voice for an ethical relation to the world. We join him and other South African writers in rejecting the use of culture to obscure and justify genocide.

John, New Contrast stands with you as you have done with us for decades and we are with you now in solidarity with the people of Gaza!

08/05/2026

📚 OPEN BOOK WORKSHOP WEEK 📚

Join Robyn Paterson and Shane van Der Hoven for a session discussing all things submissions!

This workshop will provide writers with tools and practical knowledge that will help give them the best chance at getting published in a literary journal. We will run through common errors, how to properly read a submission call, what editors are looking for in a submission, the importance of workshopping a draft before submitting, submission no-nos and etiquette and crafting a compelling cover letter and bio.

The workshop will be interactive, have exercises and time for loads of questions. Plus, it’s free! Limited space so sign up early! Link in bio.

08/05/2026

07/05/2026

In October 2018 we published an issue of the Chronic themed "On Circulations and the African imagination of a borderless world" as the 3rd part of a tryptic on African cartographies - following "new cartographies" (2015) and "the invention of Zimbabwe" (2018). The edition responded to and expanded on a talk by Achille Mbembe on the idea of a borderless world at Yale University earlier that year.

We listen to that talk again this evening. Tune in, 7pm live on PASS.

07/05/2026

📣 Meet the publisher: Nick Mulgrew

From South Africa’s Durban to Edinburgh in Scotland, Nick Mulgrew has built a literary career defined by range and rigour 📚

Born to British parents, in SA he founded uHlanga, a pioneering poetry press now in its eleventh year, which is an immeasurable feat for a southern African publisher!

Leveraging his 14+ years in the literary & publishing worlds, Mulgrew has launched Batis Books in Edinburgh, with exciting titles from the likes of Cynthia Fan and Ivan Vladislavić, to name a few.

🔥 Learn more about Nick, and find out why he wants to publish YOUR writing: www.bat.is/about