QUEER AFRICA, new and collected fiction

214pp., paperback, Ma Thoko's Books, Johannesburg, 2013

ISBN: 9781920590338

Queer Africa was awarded a Lambda Literary Award (Anthology Category) in 2014.

18 short stories that challenge assumptions about what it means to be queer and to be African.

Featured authors: Davina Owombre, Emil Rorke, Wamuwi Mbao, K. Sello Duiker, To Molefe, Roger Diamond, Dolar Vasani, Rahiem Whisgary, Monica Arac de Nyeko, Annie Holmes, Natasha Distiller, Richard de Nooy, Wame Molefhe, Barbara Adair, Beatrice Lamwaka, Martin Hatchuel, Mercy Minah, Lindiwe Nkutha.

Karen Martin is a fiction writer, collage artist and professional editor. A member of the GALA board of trustees, she has initiated and developed several projects, including Balancing Act, a book and exhibition of South African LGBTI youth life stories, and Till the Time of Trial, a booklet featuring the prison letters of Simon Nkoli. She is the co-editor of Sex and Politics.

Makhosazana Xaba  is the author of the poetry collections these hands and Tongues of their Mothers, and editor of Like the untouchable wind: An anthology of poems. Her collection of short stories, Running & other stories, won the 2014 SALA Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award.