Half Booked

05/12/2024

I wrote a review for this issue!
Thus you're going to see a lot of posts from me shelling the hell out of it ;) x

ISSUE 207 COVER REVEAL!

We are so thrilled to be featuring artwork by Nolan Chichi Kalwandu in our upcoming issue.

Nolan, also known as , is a Johannesburg-based artist and illustrator. What Kalwandu creates is revitalising; his portraits and illustrations are charged with colours. Vibrant and atmospheric like the feeling of a sentimental bygone-dream. Kalwandu keeps his inner child alive and pays tribute to the potency of childish wonder through his work, bringing to life surreal images that allude to cartoons, games, and the potential of the mid-2000s.

For our 207 conversation, Paul Kammies () sat down virtually with Nolan Kalwandu to talk about particularity and self-resonance, intent and the possibilities of digital art.

Stay tuned for news on our release date!

05/10/2024

A New Article on the Undiscovered Durban History of Sugar! x
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02/10/2024

Hello everyone 🙂

I’ve had a curious idea for a literary podcast rattling around my head for the last while which I’m finally acting on!
I want to democratise the South African canon of short stories, novels and poetry by reading it out for children and adults alike; I’d call it ‘South African Storytime’ (or something along those lines) and it would just be me and a guest reading a classic story and then a contemporary story very dramatically and then chit-chatting about their writers and the diversity of experiences which make the country what it is. (Can you trademark an idea just by saying ‘TM’ at the end of an explanation?)

But to make this happen of course, I need funding, collaborators and books!
So if you know the recording biz or know how to acquire arts funding for this kind of thing please let me know!
And if you have any works of SA literature clogging up your shelves, please pour them into a box and bring them to me and name your price!
I want to have one of the biggest libraries of SA lit in the world!

05/09/2024

Hi all!
I might re-share this post until you get sick of it for the foreseeable future but it's in service of two great causes!

The Cape Town theatre-going and -making community desperately needs a single group where they can see, share and post listings for upcoming theatre news and live events in the Cape Metropolis and the South African literary community needs a similar site to promote their books, their launches, their workshops, their festivals, their competitions etc.

So I decided to make both of them!

So please if you're in any way interested in building these arts, join The Cape Town Drama Stans:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/qur5EGmqXsAteSNa/

And/or Half Booked - The South African Literature Hub:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/9grmuC4qHi3akNBs/

And don't be shy to post, comment, invite, ask questions and so forth! Let's find each other in the wilderness x

Share away! Share away!

Yours,
Cameron

28/08/2024

Dave Mann describes himself as 'somebody permanently on the outside of the process or institution, peeking in momentarily'.

25/08/2024

24/08/2024

This is an edited extract from Charl-Pierre Naudé’s novel The Equality of Shadows