Project
A Season of Prosperity (working title)
This novel will blend a sequence of narratives, set at various turning points in the history of the British Virgin Islands from 1807 To present day, concerned with the themes of body and work, individual and collective identity, and the intersections of trauma and Virgin Islander identity.
Project
Echoes: A Collection of Historical Short Stories (working title)
This project looks back at history via the short story genre.
Project
Limbo: A Novel
My aim is to work on a draft of a novel I’ve been writing for several years.
Publication
Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak . 2020. Afterlives (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlives-9781526615879/
Publication
Dancing the Death Drill
Khumalo, Fred. 2017. Dancing the Death Drill. Umuzi. http://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/dancing-death-drill/9781415209493
Project
Glory (working title)
A multi-generational family drama told through different periods of Zimbabwe’s history.
Project
Fugitive Whispers
I am in the early stages of this project but my expectation is that it will become a novel.
Project
The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
Project
Fiction Writing Project
I plan to write a novel based on the life and works of Thomas Pringle, popularly known as the Father of South African poetry.
Project
The Death Drill (a novel)
During the stay at STIAS research and writing on the historical novel ‘The Death Drill, inspired by and based on the sinking of the SS Mendi, a battle ship carrying members of the South African Native Labour Corps, will be continued.
Project
Historical Novel - Research and Writing
While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.