<p>In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana's debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer's years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man's life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse. Thabo Jijana, born in 1988, was the 2011 recipient of the Anthony Sampson Foundation Award and the 2014 winner of the Sol Plaatje/European Union Poetry Award. In 2014, he published his first book, Nobody's Business, a memoir. Born and raised in eNgqushwa, Thabo currently lives in Port Elizabeth, where he works as a writer.</p>

Failing Maths and My Other Crimes

Literature & Fiction

Jijana, Thabo

Poetry

uHlanga

<p>The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story is an anthology of Black Letter Media's annual short story writing competition. Volume 3 features the work of fifteen emerging writers who call Africa home, including the six shortlisted stories by Mwikali Mutune ("Eye Color"), Tina Chiwashira ("Tanganyika ABCs"), Mary Ononokpono ("Firewater"), Eliza Mabungu ("Rudo"), Osemegbe Aito ("Petrichor"), and Mitchel Tumuhimbise ("The Scent of Living Wills").</p>

The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Volume 3

Motseke, Diketseng

Tumuhimbise, Mitchel

Mutune, Mwikali

Amreyan, Erhu

Ohaegbulam, Henry

Garisch, Natasha

Matshwane, Lerato

Manana, Busisiwe

Aito, Osemegbe

Short Stories & Anthologies

Black Letter Media

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