Mirari Press

02/06/2026

🧿 OCULUS VOL. 13 🧿

Surprise bitch! Bet you thought you’d seen the last of me 🚬

It’s a bumper OCULUS, so strap in! Mentions:









Okay bye divas! Happy Pride!

28/05/2026

🩸NEW SUB WHO THIS🩸

The sun has set. The door is open.

We’re opening submissions for our next anthology, and this one runs on hunger, heat, and wanting that outlasts death. Welcome to IMMORTALS.

What we’re looking for:
Of all the monsters we’ve invented, the vampire is the one we keep inviting back in. It has always been the most seductive: a creature of appetite and patience, of the slow approach and the willing throat. The bite has stood in for s*x, for surrender, for intimacy and its dangers, in every century that has told its story. The vampire endures because desire endures, and because some hungers were never meant to die.
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For IMMORTALS, we want open-door vampire romance. The romance must be central, the heat must be explicit and on the page and the vampire must be essential to the story. We’re not looking for a fanged love interest who could just as easily be human. The vampire’s nature should shape the desire, the stakes, and the transformation at the heart of the piece. Predator and prey, eternity and the mortal who tempts it, the cost of being wanted forever – give us the tension only a vampire can carry.
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We want the full spectrum of desire. Stories of every s*xual orientation are welcome and wanted – we’re building a collection as varied as longing itself. Whatever the pairing or the configuration, we ask that the intimacy be mutual and the wanting run both ways; even the darkest predator-and-prey play should be a dance both partners choose.
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Stories may be tender or ferocious, gothic or contemporary, aching or playful. We’re drawn to strong character arcs, emotional clarity, and distinctive voices.
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Seduce us. Make us feel the pull of forever.

Full details on our website / LIB 🤏🏼👄🧛‍♂️

13/05/2026

Come thruuuuu! It’s launch time 🚀

Get FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450, within South Africa.

11/05/2026

🧿 WE’RE TURNING TWO 🧿

Come join us on 6 June to celebrate two years of brilliant books, events, relationships, yapping, reading, laughing, writing, stumbling, recovering, posting stupid s**t, being nominated for awards, selling out at launches, and so much more!

Get ready to:
- meet almost every Mirari author
- eat pizza and cake
- win vouchers and hampers
- [REDACTED TOP SECRET MIRARI STUFF]
- win, win, win!

6 June, 14:00-16:00, Exclusive Books V&A.
RSVP at the link in bio. This is essential! Spots are limited.

07/05/2026

🧿 DYK we’re DTF? 🧿

Babe are you okay? You’ve barely even touched your enormous dragon 🐉

… anyways! Calling all writers - we’re currently accepting submissions for our first 2027 anthology: MENAGERIE!

We’re looking for short stories between 5k and 10k words, centred on mythological creatures 🐉

Subs close 30 June.

Full guidelines at our LIB ✌🏼😈✌🏼

Art by Vera Velichko 🖼️

04/05/2026

🧿 LAUNCH ALERT 🧿

Come join us for the launch of ’s CALL THE FIRE!

When: 21 May, 17:30 for 18:00
Where: Exclusive Books Cavendish
How: RSVP at our link in bio

Nerine will be in convo with author Jen Thorpe (THE PECULIARS, THE FALL).

Get ready to meet the two most wonderfully chaotic protagonists, Conn the Paladin and Garyn the Yala, and fall in love with the world of CALL THE FIRE.

See you there, and bring those extinguishers - it’s gonna be a scorcher 🔥

30/04/2026

🧿 SELECTED AUTHORS ANNOUNCED 🧿

That’s right, our little crystal ballerz! We can now share the selected stories for our upcoming anthology, MAJOR ARCANA.

Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who submitted. The stories were SO GOOD! You don’t make it easy…

Okay, here we go! The selected stories are:
🧿 Andrea le Riche: XIII: Death
🧿 Brett Rex Bruton: Fur, Feathers, and Flies
🧿 Gary Hartley: Site-specific Work
🧿 Luke Wildman: Seanna O’Gab and Brer Rabbit
🧿 Nerine Dorman: Daughter of Sunset, Daughter of Dawn
🧿 Peter-Adrian Altini: Dogwoman
🧿 Rhett Sinnema: Damned
🧿 Sitara Hooseria: The Ocean of Milk

MAJOR ARCANA releases in October. And remember: the cards never lie…

Cc:


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22/04/2026

🧿 BOOK DEAL 🧿

You thought you had us clocked but you don’t know anything! Ready to crash tf out? Happy to oblige, diva 😘

*clears throat*

Mirari Press has acquired Rešoketšwe Manenzhe’s The Kind Old Sun Will Know for publication in 2027.

From the award-winning author of Scatterlings comes a work of literary speculative fiction set in 1950s South Africa. Told through the voice of a young girl navigating the surreal terrain of grief, memory, and myth, The Kind Old Sun Will Know blends coming-of-age storytelling with metaphysical mystery in the tradition of Tsitsi Dangaremba, Toni Morrison, David Mitchell and N.K. Jemisin.

When her sister Zuleika vanishes without explanation, eleven-year-old Jhoni Naya Keet begins to lose time. Her dreams become transmissions into time and history, her memories rearrange themselves, and a strange radio – dismissed by the village as a broken toy – begins to hum with voices from another realm. With the help of her friends, a shaman who may also be a train conductor, and a graphic novel that might be a sacred text, Jhoni must tune into the right frequency to bring her sister home. But the deeper she travels into the spirit world, the more she begins to question: is she remembering the past, or rewriting it?

The Kind Old Sun Will Know is a novel about childhood and loss, but also about the stories we tell to survive. It explores the metaphysics of memory, the alchemy of language, and the quiet revolutions that happen when a girl dares to believe in the impossible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rešoketšwe is a South African villager & storyteller. Her debut novel, Scatterlings, won the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, the 2021 HSS Award for Best Fiction, the 2021 UJ Prize for South African Fiction in English, the First-Time Author award at the 2021 South African Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Literary Awards, and went on to be included in the list of best books released in 2022 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The book has since been translated into seven languages.