Stoep Collective

26/12/2025

“Self-publishing is flexible to your budget, aesthetics and goals.”

🌊 Involve as many or as few people as possible
🌊 Get collaborative with friends & colleagues
🌊 Or you can do it yourself!

🔗 Discover more: https://uhlangapress.co.za/these-notes-are-yours

21/12/2025

The Turner Prize, England’s most high-profile art award, has named Nnena Kalu as its 2025 winner. She will take home £25,000 (about $33,300), while the three other shortlisted artists will receive £10,000 ($13,000).⁠
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Kalu is officially the first-ever learning-disabled artist to win the award, which has in past years gone to artists such as Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Lubaina Himid. She is also one of the few Black artists ever to have received the prize.⁠
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Born in Glasgow in 1966 to Nigerian parents, Kalu is known for sculptures resembling cocoon-like forms that she strews with videotape, cellophane, and other unconventional materials. Since 1999, Kalu, who is autistic and is largely unable to speak words, has worked with the London-based nonprofit ActionSpace to create her art. Only recently, however, has her work begun to appear in commercial settings, with the London gallery Arcadia Missa taking her on last year.⁠
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Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nnena-kalu-2025-turner-prize-winner-1234765624/

21/12/2025

21/12/2025

“If we do not make room for the plurality of voices in our literature, we endanger not only our culture, but our democracy.” Congratulations to Dinaw Mengestu, the new president of PEN America! ✍🏾✨
https://brittlepaper.com/2025/12/ethiopian-american-novelist-dinaw-mengestu-elected-president-of-pen-america/

19/12/2025

18/12/2025

Catherine Telford Keogh has won the Guggenheim Museum’s first Jack Galef Visual Arts Award, a new $50,000 prize honoring “artists of exceptional talent whose work demonstrates innovation, depth, and vision.”

18/12/2025

17/12/2025

“This is what it means to bloom” – Kopano Maroga

From haunting lines to imagery that stays with you long after the collection is finished, uHlanga’s titles have been with you for a whole decade!

And now, it’s never been easier to buy our books 📚

Discover your next favourite uHlanga poet at Mzansi Books now 🔗: www.mzansibooks.co.za/collections/uhlanga-press

17/12/2025

"The country of writers; a place that is larger, wilder, and more generous than any one border could contain."

'These Notes Are Yours' is a free, 60-page mini-manual full of insider tips, resources and direct contacts from uHlanga. Written by publisher Nick Mulgrew with uHlanga poet Megan Ross, it’s a toolkit made by writers for writers—an honest, useful companion for anyone looking to self-publish their poetry.

🔗 Download it: https://bit.ly/4pL8hqT

17/12/2025

We’ve got your festive gifting sorted 🎁😘

Get all the poetry-lovers wrapped at Mzansi Books: www.mzansibooks.co.za/collections/uhlanga-press

17/12/2025

Shane 🪲💚

Pure poetic joy 🎉

We’re loving the photos from Wednesday’s launch of Shane van der Hoven’s debut collection, ‘Kruiper Crawler’.

🏷️ Tag us in all your photos!

16/12/2025

Do you have plans for Reconciliation Day?

If not, you may want to go ahead and download ‘These Notes Are Yours’ 📓🖊️

A document filled with shared knowledge, resources and contact details, it’s our summer gift to you, our uHlanga family. We can’t wait to see how you use *your* 100% free guide to self-publishing poetry in South Africa.

🔗 You can download it here: https://uhlangapress.co.za/these-notes-are-yours