2021 African Small Publishers' Catalogue PDF
Preview 2021 African Small Publishers' Catalogue
“Since its inception, the African Small Publishers’ Catalogue has given space and visibility to the small independents of our books industry and community, including articles of advice for writers, and wisdom of experience-sharing in terms of difficulties and challenges overcome.” – AFRICA IN WORDS “This Small Publishers’ Catalogue is a way of uncovering and bringing this important work to light. The Catalogue offers some insight into the extent of small publishing. It is useful as a resource for new small publishers or those who want to venture into self-publishing, it offers an idea of who is doing what and how they are doing it.” – DENNIS ABRAMS, PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES AFRICAN SMALL PUBLISHERS’ CATALOGUE 2021 Edited and compiled by Colleen Higgs & Aimee-Claire Smith African Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2021 First published by Modjaji Books in 2021 www.modjajibooks.co.za [email protected] Individual listings and adverts © the contributors. All other text © Modjaji Books. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Editors: Colleen Higgs & Aimee-Claire Smith Cover design & tyepsetting: Monique Cleghorn Cover photograph of colourful bracelets © iStockphoto/intek1 ISBN (Print): 978-1-928433-27-9 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-928433-30-9 The printing of this catalogue kindly sponsored by: CONTENTS INTRODUCTION EDITORS LISTINGS A-Z: Aerial publishing African Sun Press AkooBooks Ltd AmaBooks Amalion Publishing Atypical Books Ayebia Aztar Press Basler Afrika Bibliographien Publishing House Bhiyoza Publishers BK Publishing Blackbird Books Blue Weaver Bookcraft Bookstorm Book Dash Books Direct Book Lingo Breeze Publishing Bright Light Books Brize Publications Burnet Media Catalyst Press Chimurenga Clockwork Books CookieReads David Philip Publishers trading as New Africa Books Deep South DigiThis Dryad Press Éditions Graines de Pensées Editora Trinta Zero Nove EN TOUTES LETTRES FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers Association Fundza Literacy Trust Hands-on Books Huza Press impepho press iwalewebooks Jacana Media Junkets Publisher Kachifo Khazola Books Logos Open Culture Marketfiftyfour.com Modjaji Books Palace of Knowledge Parresia Publishers Ltd Pelmo Book Publishers Poetree Publications Profounder Publishers Protea Boekhuis / Protea Book House Reamsworth Publishing Samnko Books SEDIA Sefsasa Culture & Publishing Shama Story Press Africa Theart Press University of Namibia Press Weaver Press Yiz House Publishing Zazi Books CLASSIFIEDS ARTICLES: Publishing in the pandemic What is Book Dash? Some of the mistakes that publishers can make DigiThis – Meeting the Demands of Digital Becoming the New Normal The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund: an accelerant for African ingenuity Read. Write. African. INTRODUCTION This is the fifth edition of the African Small Publishers’ Catalogue. Once again we have many more publishers and some of the publishers we featured last time have either left the scene, or their circumstances have changed such that they don’t want to be included in the catalogue. We are also aware of how challenging the COVID-19 pandemic has been for publishers in Africa. The catalogue is a showcase of the variety and extent of independent and small publishing in Africa. It is still weighted with many more South African publishers, but each time we have brought out a new edition, there are more publishers from a wider spread of African publishers. This year we have a publisher from Malawi for the first time. We have listings from 21 countries The catalogue aims to uncover and highlight the work and existence of small publishers in Africa. We hope that librarians, booksellers, books page editors, educators, readers, writers and bigger publishers will be enriched by having access to these publishers and that the publishers themselves will find new customers, access to funds and technologies that will enable them to thrive. It is thrilling to see all the writers and publishers who are toiling away, doing extraordinary creative cultural work. EDITORS Colleen Higgs is a publisher and writer, who lives in Cape Town. She started Modjaji Books in 2007, and still works there as the publisher. Her most recent book is a memoir, my mother, my madness (deep south) which came out in 2020. Higgs is a publishing activist, and this catalogue is one of the ways she contributes to book development and raising the profile of independent publishing in Africa. Aimee-Claire Smith lives in Cape Town, where they are studying English Literature and Anthropology. They work in publishing and media. Their writing has been published in New Contrast, Living While Feminist (Kwela, 2020) and Supernova. LISTINGS
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