Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
some writers can give you two heartbeatslatest news & developments
Flying high: For Innovative novelist Yvonne Vera, writing was a transcendental experience (Mai Palmberg)
BLACK CHALK AND CO

‘Writing is about revelations and reversals’

In this essay novelist Yvonne Vera let us in on her writing process

  • Yvonne Vera
8 min read
Tinashe Mushakavahu (Delwyn Verasamy)
AT THE HEAD OF THE STREAM

Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing

Kwanele Sosibo talks to Tinashe Mushakavanhu, the co-editor of Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats, about the impetus behind the book

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read
‘I am against everything’: Dambudzo Marechera reading in First Street Mall, Harare, during the International Book Fair in 1983 (Tessa Colvin)
CORRUPTION

What would Dambudzo be saying?

Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu
7 min read
Charles Mungoshi and Dambudzo Marechera in Harare, May 1987. (Ernst Schade)
BLACK CHALK AND CO
Audio

Dedicated to Heartbeats

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats has been in my possession since August 22, 2019, which was when co-editor Tinashe Mushakavanhu first handed it to me at a book event.…

  • Kwanele Sosibo
1 min read