New writing
Fiction and prose by established and emerging authors. Send your poetry or fiction to New Writing at skryfwerk@litnet.co.za to be considered for publication on LitNet.
Please note that work previously published in print or on any online media platform will not be considered for selection.
Vladimir Nabokov
2016-02-10"Remainders of the day
locked away inside the
health of a scientific sun."
New writing: The break-up
2016-02-02"It was in this moment that I realised that I was missing something vital in this whole set-up. That there was a silence between us as well."
Vonani Bila
2016-01-27"Only do this I tell myself.
Write a poem for yourself.
That narrative is interspersed
With both despair and hope."
Virginia Woolf’s River Ouse (an experimental poem in eleven haiku)
2015-12-21"Search Woolf’s voyage out ..."
Second-hand bookstore, Cape Town
2015-11-17"He wonders – how whole worlds can be buckled into suitcases or taped into wine cartons."
Knysna
2015-11-06"I’ve abandoned this poem/ to watch a kite weighted/ by a flower pot/ inhale and exhale"
Julius Malema
2015-11-06"Malema, my Noah’s Ark./ My Jonah’s Whale./ The Johannesburg people’s patriarch./ My country of ice cream."
The tale of the merboy and the mother
2015-10-30"The merboy seemed heavier, his breathing was slow, steady,/ his wide eyes fixed skywards – snagged by a full moon."
23 October 2015, South Africa
2015-10-27"I remembered/ Bantu education./ Hector Pieterson./ Youth taking to the streets."
A moth, quivering
2015-10-19"Desperately/ He distorted his vision/ And read between edges/ His eyes began to bleed."
A silver fish swallowed my mother
2015-10-16"White, like the fishermen’s cottages in her favourite tapestry of the Sardinian Sea."
What is preventing linguistic cross-pollination?
2015-09-16On UWC Creates and the lack of literary translations from and into other indigenous languages.
Muti water
2015-05-06"Every Monday morning she came walking up the dirt road from the black township, wearing her brightly coloured Basotho blanket around her shoulders and her orange-and-black headscarf."