There are great novelists, there are great poets. There are great essayists, newspaper columnists and editors. Then there is Deuteronomy Bhekinkosi “DBZ” Ntuli. DBZ Ntuli is a rare gem in the South African literary sphere because he is a great novelist, poet, essayist, newspaper columnist, editor and translator all rolled into one. DBZ Ntuli is […]
Cover2Cover Books is proud to announce the release of Hero Within, a powerful anthology that explores the stark divides that exist in our communities and our country through the eyes of our youth. Compiled by the FunDza Literacy Trust, Hero Within brings together the voices of a range of South Africans, from aspiring young writers […]
FunDza Literacy Trust has an online library aimed at getting South African teens and young adults reading for pleasure by providing the relevant, exciting and accessible content that will make them want to read. Every week there is a new short story, and every day new material is added – it is a content ‘monster’, […]
Songbird is an exciting new anthology that has been released by Cover2Cover, as part of our series of FunDza anthologies. Like us, the FunDza Literacy Trust believes that reading ignites the imagination, it encourages critical thinking, and it develops empathy and a deeper understanding of the world. FunDza commissions writers to produce new stories – in […]
Terry and Barbara Bell were given the opportunity to speak at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this year. Not only did they fill the venue to capacity – they were highly engaged, filled the room with laughter and had the audience listening with bated breath to the stories of their adventures, run-ins with the law, and […]
It is always so fascinating when a young person becomes an author and releases their first book. This is what Cover2Cover works so hard to accomplish. With the mission of getting the youth reading for pleasure, Cover2Cover identifies potential writers, mentors them – then provides some of them with an opportunity to publish their stories. […]
Amagama Enkululeko! Words for Freedom: Writing Life Under Apartheid is an anthology of short fiction, poetry, narrative journalism and extracts from novels and memoirs which frames local literature as a lens through which to engage with South Africa’s past. With a foreword by Zakes Mda, and a mixture of famous and seemingly forgotten struggle writers, […]
May I have this dance, by Connie Manse Ngcaba, looks set to find readers in schools and libraries across the USA. It has been selected as an Honor Book for 2016 by the Children’s Africana Book Awards Committee, based in the United States. Read an edited version of a review by Rosetta Codling, originally published […]
FunDza Literacy Trust and Cover2Cover Books conceptualized the Harmony High series, set in a fictional township, to get reluctant teens reading. Authors who were identified and mentored by the FunDza’s Literacy Trust wrote three of the most recent in this page-turning series. “Having stories written for young black South Africans by young black South African […]
Bontle Senne hopes to publish her third book for tweens in the nail-biting Shadow Chasers series before she turns thirty in October this year. Heather Robertson asked the talented author of Power of the Knife and Lake of Memories about the stories that shaped the storyteller. What are your earliest memories of being read to […]