Jessica Powers
@jlpowers
J.L. Powers writes books. Under Water pubbed in Feb 2019. She's publisher at @catalyst_press, writes w/ bro @powers_squared, freelances at jlpowers.net.
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Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with MINE MINE MINE (African Poetry Book Fund), a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. bit.ly/3QWHvMo
Spud: A Wickedly Funny Novel, by John van de Ruit, featured during our 2nd #IntlYALitMonth, curated by Linda Hoiseth (she/her). This book is so funny and so beloved it's been made into a movie with John Cleese. glli-us.org/2022/05/08/int… #IntlYALit #SouthAfricanYALit #Comedy #ReadingAfrica
Jen Thorpe aims to read every book written by #SouthAfricanWomxnWriters. We went along on part of the journey! This is an incredibly comprehensive look at titles from 2015-2021. Learn more here: glli-us.org/2021/01/30/sou… #ReadingAfrica #SouthAfricanLit Jen Thorpe (Smout)
To celebrate #ReadingAfrica Week, Catalyst Press has organised three online events to spotlight African literature starting today. All events are free to attend and held online, from 5 – 8 December 2023. Learn more: bit.ly/47JPUdc
Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with YOUR BODY IS WAR by @MShiferraw which contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. African Poetry Book Fund bit.ly/40ZxVNf
(BC somehow we were asleep on Sunday) Today we've 2x AiW picks of 2023's reads for Catalyst Press' #ReadingAfrica week - Day 2's is Akin Adeṣọkan's Everything is Sampled - a faceted long view on the production of African arts & letters in the digital age: iupress.org/9780253065667/…
Team pick #3 reopens a plagiarism scandal & reexamines the place of African writing in its light: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's magical La Plus Secrete Memoire Des Hommes, + trans. @laravergnaud, The Most Secret Memory of Men penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734606/t… #ReadingAfrica week - Catalyst Press
Though we don't publish any work by Palestinian writers (yet!), we wanted to support as best we could. Visit our site to read excerpts from an anthology edited by our founder Jessica Powers on the effects of war on kids. One centered on Palestine, one on Rwanda catalystpress.org/read-palestine…
"I see an Africa that writes, & publishes, for Africa and beyond, with the focus on supporting the African way of writing and storytelling" Mutesi Gasana, Ubuntu Publishers Jessica Powers leads a discussion Africa in Words with African publishers #ReadingAfrica africainwords.com/2023/12/06/qa-…
Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with Catalyst Press), is Duncan McEachern Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature*, examining the "controversial symbol of China" through Africa's literary creative voices, as far back as the Cold War and beyond...
"Now I have decided. I will travel to search for her in every place." For #ReadingAfrica week, we're returning to this work by Ann El Safi آن الصافي (tr. nariman youssef) from our collection "Coming into Focus: Sudanese Women Writers" buff.ly/3t1oC38
In our latest interview, publicist and South African office head for Catalyst Press, SarahBelle Selig, speaks to Kris Van der Bijl about #ReadingAfrica Week (3-9 December), challenges and opportunities in indie publishing, and much more!
“Every so often a name spreads so far out that an entire community comes to believe nobody else is entitled to bear it. “ We’re celebrating #ReadingAfrica week with story by Boubacar Boris Diop (tr. from Wolof by El Hadji Moustapha Diop & Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D.). buff.ly/3Gw3UeO
Jessica Powers and Kenechi Uzor on how Catalyst and Iskanchi Press are bringing African writers to wider audiences. lithub.com/how-catalyst-a…