sea_ice, FicSci 03

88pp., paperback, African Minds, Somerset West, 2025

ISBN: 9781067253653

A collection of creative writing that emerged from a workshop at which Tokoloho Rampai, a sea ice scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, spoke about the properties, formation and behaviour of sea ice, especially in the Southern Ocean.

Invited writers: Boitumelo Riet, Campbell Meas, David Cornwell, Efemia Chela, Emile Cronje, John Trengove, Lee Middleton, Linda Lee Mhlongo, Senna-Marie Bosman, Tshepo Molefe, Yuwinn Kraukamp

Researcher and writer Mehita Iqani is currently Director of the Centre for Science Communication, Journalism Department, Stellenbosch University, and Chairholder of the DSI-NRF-fubded SA Research Chair in Science Communication.

Wamuwi Mbao teaches literature at Stellenbosch University. He is a fiction critic with the Johannesburg Review of Books and editor of Years of Fire and Ash: South African poetry of decolonisation.