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New Coin Poetry New Coin is a South African poetry journal published twice yearly. New Coin is available on subscription only. Contact the ISEA at [email protected] to subscribe.

New Coin is a prestigious South African poetry journal which was founded in 1965 by Guy Butler and Ruth Harnett. It is published twice a year by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. From 2017 New Coin will be edited by Dashen Naicker, who will work with an editorial board made up of the four poets who teach on the Rhodes MA in Cre

ative Writing course. The annual subscription for the June and December 2016 issues is R200 for South Africa and other African countries (for airmail, please add R30). For overseas subscriptions the cost is $67 or £37 (for airmail please add $16 or £90. New Coin's continued publication is dependent on subscriptions. The editor of New Coin invites submissions of poetry, which should be typed. If possible, please submit electronically (MS Word attachment) to [email protected]. You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt. Should your work be accepted for publication, you will receive a contributor's copy of the issue in which your work appeared.

Glimpse of Friday things at Rhodes University during Vol 61.1 June Issue Launch🥳🥳🥳Don’t miss the October launch ‼️
22/09/2025

Glimpse of Friday things at Rhodes University during Vol 61.1 June Issue Launch🥳🥳🥳

Don’t miss the October launch ‼️

Don’t Miss the Launch!Join us for the New Coin Poetry Launch as part of Wordfest 2025 🗓️ Date: Friday, 19 September 2025...
17/09/2025

Don’t Miss the Launch!

Join us for the New Coin Poetry Launch as part of Wordfest 2025

🗓️ Date: Friday, 19 September 2025
🕓 Time: 16h00
📍 Venue: Institute for the Study of the Englishes of Africa (ISEA), St Peter’s Building, Rohdes University

Come celebrate powerful voices in South African poetry and experience the magic of words that move, challenge, and inspire.

All are welcome!

sixty-one years of New Coin. sixty-one years of poetic conversation in a country and region that has held many faces. ex...
17/09/2025

sixty-one years of New Coin.

sixty-one years of poetic conversation in a country and region that has held many faces. exclusions, protests. a region cut open over and over and over again, sometimes limping, sometimes blind. and always, we have had poems.

celebrate with us
won’t you
please

New Coin is launching this Friday, don't miss it!
16/09/2025

New Coin is launching this Friday, don't miss it!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - NEW COIN (Dec2025 Edition)In celebration of 25 years since New Coin's landmark women's poetry iss...
12/09/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - NEW COIN (Dec
2025 Edition)

In celebration of 25 years since New Coin's landmark women's poetry issue (1999), we're inviting poetry from Black and Brown women - cis, trans, and non-binary - from and/or living in Southern Africa. Theme: This Body Cannot Forget

Send us your stories of resistance, care, pleasure, illness, identity, and memory.

'Pull Down to Earth' Alan Finlay's short history of the first 50 years of New Coin was published by the ISEA in 2015.It ...
11/03/2025

'Pull Down to Earth' Alan Finlay's short history of the first 50 years of New Coin was published by the ISEA in 2015.
It is available for sale for R250 (incl. courier) or R100 if collected at the ISEA in Makhanda.

To order a copy, contact Nomangesi Kelemi [email protected]

Congratulations to Zizipho Bam for winning the2023 Thomas Pringle Award for Best Poem published in a Southern African Jo...
17/02/2025

Congratulations to Zizipho Bam for winning the
2023 Thomas Pringle Award for Best Poem published in a Southern African Journal (in 2021 or 2022). The poem was 'Patience in a Moment, first published in New Coin (2021).

It is also worth noting that Zizipho Bam was earlier awarded one of the 2020 New Coin Poetry prizes for her poem 'Learning to Swim' which appeared in the June (2020) issue of New Coin. Way to go, Zizipho! We are proud to be associated with you.

Copies are available for purchase.
Contact us at the [email protected]

New editors for New Coin Well-known poet, publisher and literary activist vangile gantsho will be editing the poetry jou...
07/02/2025

New editors for New Coin

Well-known poet, publisher and literary activist vangile gantsho will be editing the poetry journal New Coin in 2025 and will be joined by University of Pretoria English, Professor Molly Brown as assistant editor.

vangile gantsho is a poet, healer, writing teacher and co-founder of the feminist publishing house impepho press. She is the author of two poetry collections, red cotton (2018) and Un******ng in Front of the Window (2015). She holds an MA in creative writing from Rhodes University and has taught at several universities in South Africa and the USA. gantsho is deeply involved in projects that encourage (black) feminine visibility and healing, including Ukuthula, a creative writing resistance to gender-based violence, and smallgirl rising connecting the Divine Black Feminine, an international poetry healing initiative.

Professor Molly Brown headed the English Department at UP from 2015 to 2022, and has taught university poetry courses for almost forty years. She is one of the editors of the anthology Voices of this Land, now in its third edition, and is a member the judging panel for the NIHSS book awards. She has been an examiner for a number of postgraduate poetry theses in creative writing.

gantsho says “I believe very much in healthy critical engagement while celebrating the vast array of poetic genres Southern Africa has to offer. My hope is that Molly and I take on the baton and move New Coin into a space that celebrates the vibrant multiplicity of poetry voices this landscape has to offer.”

New Coin is published twice a year by the Institute for the Study of the Englishes of Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes University and 2025 will be its 60th year of continuous publication.

For subscription enquiries and guidelines on poetry submissions, contact [email protected]

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