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Table of content: Katlego Tapala, Phumlani Pikoli, Rofhiwa Maneta, Maneo Mohale, Lesedi Molefi and Lefa Nkadimeng discussing various aspects of writing, editing and publishing. (Image: Supplied)

A Seat at a Table, Ep 1: The writerly thing to do

Interviews can often demystify the processes behind how people create. It’s always fascinated Phumlani Pikoli to find the tricks to artists’ magic, as explored in his new…

Photographer and filmmaker Anthony Bila captures a subway trip in New York, 2019
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Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it

Writer, skater and filmmaker Phumlani Pikoli says his artistic intention was ‘to play’

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‘Adaptation’: New short fiction from Phumlani Pikoli

Phumlani Pikoli’s latest piece is a metafiction based on what could happen if spike jonze and Ira Glass met

Written and published under 50 days, the Corona Chronicles feature the work of more than 40 contributors. (Melinda Books)

Writers on lockdown

Melinda Ferguson has gathered essays and stories from 40-plus contributors for Corona Chronicles

Phumlani Pikoli.
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Pikoli’s Fish out of water

‘Born Freeloaders’ seems like a light read but under that is a layered look at post-apartheid privilege

Asia McDonald stars in the one woman play ‘The Same Pain’. Photo: Supplied

Asia McDonald confronts her torment in The Same Pain

The production examines how political and social conditions combine to produce an environment that is, quite literally, deadly for women.

Girls carry bottled water in Maputo

Short, sharp prods at our psyche

A collection of short stories flirts with surrealism in its rendering of the complex South African condition

Anguish: Talented novelist Kabelo Sello Duiker took his own life on January 19 2005

The art of darkness

The trope of the anguished artist romanticises the acute mental suffering that afflicts some of those who find an escape in creativity