Modjaji Books is a South African small-scale independent publisher. Started in 2007 by Colleen Higgs, it is an independent press that publishes the writings of Southern African women.[1] Many Modjaji titles have gone on to be nominated for and to win prestigious literary awards both in South Africa and internationally.[2]
Modjaji Books is based in Cape Town, publishing books written exclusively by Southern African women. Currently, the company publishes short stories, memoir, novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction.[3]
Modjaji Books aims to fill a gap by providing an independent outlet for serious writing by women: "From poetry to biography to fiction, there will be an outlet for writing by women that takes itself – and its readers – seriously."[1]
The Modjaji Books blog is frequently updated and features reviews, news, articles and insights on South African publishing. The blog is available on Books LIVE.[1]
ModjajiBooks is a South African small-scale independent publisher. Started in 2007 by Colleen Higgs, it is an independent press that publishes the writings...
a book of poetry (ModjajiBooks, 2009) and Awam Ngqo! a book of short stories (NASOU 2009) and prescribed for Grade 8; Twelve Books of Folktales – written...
(2014). Perspectives in Religious Studies. Vol. 3 (Illustrated ed.). ModjajiBooks. p. 440. ISBN 9789780814472. "Nigeria ex-convict preaches reform". BBC...
renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house ModjajiBooks. Higgs spent most of her childhood in Lesotho, her adolescence and young...
university. Omotoso's debut novel, Bom Boy, was published in 2011 by ModjajiBooks in Cape Town. It won the 2012 South African Literary Award for First-Time...
Afrikan: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities. Cape Town: Modjajibooks. ISBN 9781920590499 (2014) Black lesbian sexualities and identity in...
Breaking (ModjajiBooks), was published in 2012. The collection won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 2014. Her second volume, Navigate (ModjajiBooks), was published...
Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. Yewande Omotoso (South Africa), Bom Boy (ModjajiBooks, South Africa) Karen Jennings (South Africa), Finding Soutbek (Holland...
Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Indentities by Zethu Matabeni. ModjajiBooks. ISBN 9781920590499. Nyanzi, Stella (2013). "Dismantling reified African...
in various anthologies, which include The Bed Book of Short Stories (ModjajiBooks, 2010); A Life In Full and Other Stories: Caine Prize Anthology 2010...
Femrite. In February 2015, she was awarded an editorial fellowship at ModjajiBooks by the African Writers Trust and Commonwealth Writers. A number of her...
notably Random Struik's Umuzi, NB Publishers' Kwela Books, Jacana Media, new feminist press ModjajiBooks (whose authors include Phillippa Yaa de Villiers...
debut collection of short stories, The Thin Line, was published by ModjajiBooks in 2010. It was long-listed for the Wole Soyinka Award in 2012. Beyond...
Cape Town: ModjajiBooks, 2013. Fiction. ISBN 978-1920590161. Like the Untouchable Wind: An Anthology of Poems (editor). Harare: MaThoko's Books, 2016. Poetry...
Wife is a treat", Books Live, 16 March 2010. "The Everyday Wife" at ModjajiBooks. "ice-cream headache in my bone" at ModjajiBooks. "Staying Safe", by...
perspectives on sexual and gender identities. Athlone, South Africa: ModjajiBooks. ISBN 9781920590499. OCLC 894128812. Thomas, Kylie (2014). "The Transgressive...
the L-Word: Sappho's Daughters Out in Africa. (2011). United Kingdom: ModjajiBooks. p68-88 Theron, Lidia (2005). Jy Bly My Kind: 'n Ware Verhaal (in Afrikaans)...
needed] Piecework, her second collection of poetry, to be published by ModjajiBooks, is due out in 2010. Andersen is the editor of Incwadi, a South African...
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No Secrets, her first book, published by Tightrope Books in Canada in May 2010, and ModjajiBooks in South Africa in 2012. The stories, which deal with...
(12 June 2014). Feast, Famine and Potluck: Short Story Day Africa. ModjajiBooks. ISBN 9780620588874. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved...
South, 2003) Carrying the Fire (substancebooks, 2005) Burnt Offering (ModjajiBooks, 2009) "Joan Meteterkamp. Into the Day Breaking". World Literature Today...
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