Jacana Media

25/09/2025

🚨Calling all authors, editors and wordsmiths at every stage of the journey. Are you ready to sharpen your skills?

In this masterclass, Helen will draw on over three decades of experience to unpack the different kinds of editing, how they fit into publishing production, and what it means to work with an editor.

Secure your spot for only R150 now: https://jacana.co.za/product-category/jlf-courses/ 🔗

25/09/2025

We’re celebrating South Africa’s natural heritage with a special 50% off natural history memoirs – intimate reflections on land, legacy and the creatures that connect us. Be quick to make your selection. Offer ends 30 September.

Purchase here https://jacana.co.za/?s=heritage25&post_type=product

22/09/2025

Join acclaimed poet Gabeba Baderoon for a masterclass on cultivating habits of dreaming, reading, and daily writing. Discover the creativity hidden in ordinary life and journey towards the heart of a poem. ✍🏻

📅 Today, 22 September 2025
🕖 19h00–20h30 SAST

Secure your spot for only R150 now: https://jacana.co.za/product-category/jlf-courses/ 🔗
Baderoon

22/09/2025

Joburgers, kick off your Heritage Day at the ParkWords Festival. Book now for Tanya Zack's session on The Chaos Precinct.
Tickets are available via https://parkview.org.za/product-category/tickets/

19/09/2025

🚨NEW BOOK ALERT!🚨
Loony Birds, Lion Men and the Snake That Was a Gerbil draws from David Bristow’s popular Stories from the Veld collection to bring readers the ultimate compilation of fascinating characters, extraordinary insights and action-packed bush tales of derring-do. Meet a 5-feet-tall, gender-bending doctor prone to gun duels and a Khoi chief who escaped Robben Island multiple times. Venture to Mapungubwe, South Africa’s very own El Dorado, or learn how the Sabi Reserve’s first game ranger fought off two lions with the help of his trusty hound.

Packed with adventure and a little something for everyone, Christmas just got one present easier.

Pre-order your copy now and save R100. Offer valid until Tuesday, 23 September.
Pre-order here: https://jacana.co.za/product/loony-birds-lion-men-and-the-snake-that-was-a-gerbil-20-of-the-best-bush-tales-from-southern-africa-forthcoming-title-due-early-october/

17/09/2025

Calling all writers, poets and editors! 🚨

Do you want to turn your dreamscapes and casual musings into finely rendered verse, or explore the art of editing a manuscript for publication? Our September masterclasses, with two of South Africa’s doyennes of literature, will help you polish your prose.

Secure your spot for only R150 now: https://jacana.co.za/product-category/jlf-courses/ 🔗

15/09/2025

At Jacana Media, we live for curiosity-stoking, world-expanding moments. We make gorgeously illustrated picture books that are fun for Gogo or Oupa to read aloud and even more fun for kiddos to listen to. And we make them in multiple South African languages because storytelling begins at home.

Delight the children in your life with some of our best-loved picture books. Get 3 for the price of 2 on the titles below – in available languages – until Friday, 19 September, and spark a love for reading.

Purchase link: https://jacana.co.za/product-tag/childrens-picture-books/

09/09/2025

A little recap from this past weekend. Jacana authors, Michelle Kekena, Ashraf Kagee, Jeffrey Rakabe, and Adekeye Adebajo were panelists and participated in various and themed conversations around literature and books.

Open Book Festival
Michelle Faith Myeko Jeffrey Rakabe Ashraf Kagee

05/09/2025

Jacana Media shines a spotlight on the wonderful contributors to this year’s Gerald Kraak anthology We Shall Remain. We thank them for their brilliant and creative work which made this profound anthology what it is.

The Anthology is out and can be purchased on our website. https://jacana.co.za/product/we-shall-remain-the-gerald-kraak-anthology-vol-v/

The Gerald Kraak Anthology and Award is a joint initiative between the Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation.

03/09/2025

Jacana Media is looking for a Sales representative.

At Jacana Media We Publish What We Like. Shop Our Collection of New Releases, Bestsellers, Children’s Books, & The Books Everyone is Talking About

03/09/2025

Jacana Media congratulates Barbara Boswell for dazzling the literary world with her critically acclaimed novel, The Comrade’s Wife.

Barbara brought home the Outstanding Fiction Book Award at the 2025 National Arts and Culture Awards.

In addition, The Comrades Wife has received the following accolades:

*The Sunday Times Literary Awards longlistee

*The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing’s Main Prize shortlistee

*The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa shortlistee


What a star! Join us in celebrating brilliant Barbara with 50% off The Comrade’s Wife until Friday, 5 September.
Link to purchase: https://jacana.co.za/product/the-comrades-wife/

03/09/2025

This article features some of Jacana's brilliant children's books. It reflects on the love and intentionality that goes into making them.🧸📚

Since 2020, Biblionef South Africa has been on a deliberate and passionate mission to ensure that the stories of South Africans, particularly those that have been overlooked, untold, or silenced, are documented, published, and made accessible to our children. Our Read More ...