“If you step out, the universe will step out with you – but you must step out first.” – Loit […]

The word Karoo conjures up ideas of vast empty dry land spaces to most of us. Imagine my surprise to […]

Als je je schoeisel kinderen van de springbok noemt. Je leren tas nageslacht van de slang is en het dier […]

(Goeie Vrydag-gedig) Ek’t geweet ek moet jou laat gaan, maar steeds is dit seer. My seun, die pyn maak my […]

daarna liepen we over een rotsig pad tot bij   een hek dat de gids voor ons opende en weer […]

As ‘passenger seat driver’, het ek die beste uitsig van almal wanneer ons die pad vat.  Deur my klein sy-venster […]

het ging, dachten wij, over vliegende vissen, forellen   maakten een koprol en je ving ze gelijk in de lucht, […]

Soos met jou neighbour, Courtney, Het ons jou ook versaak. In helder dag het hy jou gevat, Hoekom het ons […]

Girl:  I keep staring at the stars hoping to find myself in them…but the more I stare, the more feel […]

Watching television. It’s the only thing helping them to carry on now. Early morning, the man washes, and wears his […]

Ek wil jou soe graāg iets gie Nette ietsie Saāmme jou los Iets wat nooit ka vaporize Of nog ērgerre […]

Brein uittie skedel, derms innie hand, longe hap na lug, baby hang tussen boude, gat deurie been, bloed sypel na […]

Yoliswa’s lifeless body lay sprawled on the kitchen floor. With his bloody hands on his head, Thembani paced back and […]

Jan strek hom uit terwyl hy sy hande voor sy oë hou om die son te blokkeer. Ek smaak nie […]

A Ma’am Mzimba Case Chapter One “The Interruption” She strutted into the church, quite a sight to behold. She wore […]

Vanaf mijn boombos kan ik over continenten naar de bosberg reiken. Daar in het voetspoor van gazellen en de civitkat […]

Why do I, at times feel that my soul belongs someplace else Why do I feel the burdens are too […]

Die koel lug omvou my soos ’n kombers. Verlangs hoor ek die insekte krie-krie.

Jaylin knip-knip haar oë om van die wasigheid ontslae te raak. Die spierwit lig verblind haar.

The last painting I remember painting was a parrot

The brother and sister were trapped in the burning vehicle. Tracy was sitting on top of her brother, trying to […]

“Around the table at a beautiful old house in Somerset East are four aspiring writers with big dreams.” Read the […]

Suidoosterfees 2022: Ronelda S. Kamfer gesels met Audrey Jantjies oor haar debuutroman, As die katjiepiering blom.

Make room Give space Give love

In retrospect I can only lovingly think back to the Paulet Huis like a grandmother happily welcoming us into her […]

She should probably go back to the house. It was clear that there was no anniversary lunch or dinner happening.

A poem from you to You.

Dis die dag toe jy verdwyn / op my mind sal jy bly

Ek het daar en dan ’n epiphany! Hoeveel horisonne kan ons oorbrug deur te lees.

My grandmother pulled me out of bed. My eyes were still half shut as I sleepily scrambled on the floor […]

Mannetjie is ’n seun wat sy tienerjare in ’n kinderhuis probeer oorleef. Hy is die stem van so baie kinders […]

Especially — when they weep so artlessly; that’s when you as parent laugh and cry in chorus, mos, from under […]

“My ma gie dié.” Nana se kin staan by my voodee met ’n koevertjie, my naam is in fancy kursief […]

His father was killed in this club, Victor thought as he stared at the half-faded sign reading “The Zulu Club” […]

Taboe, was dit eers om van ’n persoon se fisiese voorkoms ghai te maak. Veral as dit jou en jou […]

From the outside, Langa and Sindiswa’s marriage looks perfect. But inside, Langa is unhappy, and cheating on his wife. Will […]

Life is a journey we share. We are all busy and distracted. The world is a scary place, but it’s […]

Trek twie-duisend rand betaal my skuldtjies. Vier-hon’it vir “Edgars”

Tebello Mzamo is one of the 20 contributors to the anthology Incredible Journey. Read an interview on Sunday Times Books […]

’n Pondokkie met letterlik net plek vir drie mense se gemaklike beweegruimte, maar dis Buckingham-paleis vir my vriendin Rietjie. Sy […]

Julie 2020 was ’n besige en produktiewe maand by Paulet Huis met Andre Trantraal, Olivia M Coetzee, Jeremeo le Cordeur, […]

Ek het geleer om werklik te luister. Dit was eindelik ’n skok om te besef hoe diep gewortel my vooroordele […]

Seeming un-happenings

I did not choose you. I did not choose you. I did not choose you.

Willem Kemp a young man, an aspiring prose writer who found himself living in an upmarket suburb on the coast […]

Ek het jou leer ken As ’n hartklop in my baar. Nes ’n regte moederhen, Het ek ure na jou […]

Alice, Oos-Kaap. Dis nou einde Mei 2022, die begin van die vyfde golf Covid-19 infeksies. ’n Jaar gelede, asook drie […]

Hoeko is Santino die slagoffer: net ’n kleine kind, Hoeko was hy nie gevind?

Jane Mpholo, Stephren Saayman, Melissa Myburgh, Heloine Armstrong en Henque Heymans was die uitverkore teatermakers wat vir drie weke in […]