Slam For Your Life

27/10/2024

Are you a poet, performer or facilitator with poetry as your primary discipline,
we invite you to register with the South African Poets Guild by completing the
form using the link in the description.

By formulating a constructed and regulated body, the South African Poets Guild will use this collective information to build a significant establishment which caters to the working poet; opening lucrative engagements with necessary stakeholders in both public and private sectors, that can build lasting careers within the poetry industry.

Individual Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VKmwy7JpC0O5FqdYTAnr32c62W0PcOvD7EX1kJTlR-o/viewform?edit_requested=true

Organisation Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H8xbEzZo7xK4QBtKRznobWLlo31kHg1fnQMm2bpY23o/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true

For information and enquiries, email
[email protected]

02/02/2024

What if the sun is just God reposting a reel every single day? Another day. Another dispatch. This one was challenging. Getting the hang of using the 'selection tool' in . I had no idea that I could export layers to . Fumbling forward I guess.

01/02/2024

Another day. Another dispatch.

Hack away at the unessentials
Fumble forward
Find something exhilarating to fail at
Call home
Write messy
Run njayam

26/01/2024

Just a small throwback. Watch the space.

A spoken word track called Seven Moons.

23/01/2024

I wonder…

19/01/2024

What if you could find a texture, a space, or craft a canvas, clear a field, build a home long before you start writing the poem. Check out my free Ebook ‘A flood called father’

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17/01/2024

“Every good story starts when a stranger comes to town”

17/01/2024

19/12/2023

You hold your smile in the very same place you carry your scar
You blend your joy into the wound
I do not know if your are laughing or bleeding first.
I listen to you laugh as loudly as you bleed without ever showing us you are dying.

Mandi Vundla

14/11/2023

I started this flash fiction series a while ago. I’ve had episodes scattered all over the place. Glad to have a place where I can continue the story. Check it out, will be dropping an episode weekly.

Ruggish was jolted out of sleep by the sullen gaze of a Magriza. As he blinked away the remnants of sleep, he found himself seated in a taxi, a place he couldn’t recall entering. The other pa…

16/08/2023

We are calling on the industry to help us in fundraising for our friend and colleague Flo Mokale who at the moment needs all of us to help lighten his load. All details are on the poster.
Thank you.