J.L. Powers writes books. Under Water pubbed in Feb 2019. She's publisher at @catalyst_press, writes w/ bro @powers_squared, freelances at jlpowers.net.
Joined January 2009
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Aug 2024
@jlpowers and @kenechiuzor on how Catalyst and Iskanchi Press are bringing African writers to wider audiences.
lithub.com/how-catalyst-and-…
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10 Dec 2023
RT @catalyst_press: Starting soon: Writing a Greener World: How African Writers are Responding the Climate Crisis, our second #ReadingAfric…
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Jessica Powers retweeted
8 Dec 2023
Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with @catalyst_press), is @Duncan_M_Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature*, examining the "controversial symbol of China" through Africa's literary creative voices, as far back as the Cold War and beyond...
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Jessica Powers retweeted
8 Dec 2023
"Now I have decided. I will travel to search for her in every place." For #ReadingAfrica week, we're returning to this work by @AnnElSafiWriter (tr. @nariology) from our collection "Coming into Focus: Sudanese Women Writers" buff.ly/3t1oC38
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Jessica Powers retweeted
Chaos in Kinshasa, by Barly Baruti & Thierry Bellefroid, tr. Ivanka Hahnenberger.
A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire.
#ReadingAfrica
ALT Chaos in Kinshasa, by Barly Baruti & Thierry Bellefroid, tr. Ivanka Hahnenberger.
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Jessica Powers retweeted
9 Dec 2023
In our latest interview, publicist and South African office head for @catalyst_press, SarahBelle Selig, speaks to @BijlKris about #ReadingAfrica Week (3-9 December), challenges and opportunities in indie publishing, and much more!
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Jessica Powers retweeted
9 Dec 2023
“Every so often a name spreads so far out that an entire community comes to believe nobody else is entitled to bear it. “ We’re celebrating #ReadingAfrica week with story by @bboris_diop (tr. from Wolof by El Hadji Moustapha Diop & @CoulibalyBojana). buff.ly/3Gw3UeO
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10 Dec 2023
RT @catalyst_press: "I see an Africa that writes, & publishes, for Africa and beyond, with the focus on supporting the African way of writi…
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Jessica Powers retweeted
4 Dec 2023
Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with MINE MINE MINE (@AfricanPoetryBF), a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.
bit.ly/3QWHvMo
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Jessica Powers retweeted
Spud: A Wickedly Funny Novel, by John van de Ruit, featured during our 2nd #IntlYALitMonth, curated by @lhoiseth.
This book is so funny and so beloved it's been made into a movie with John Cleese.
glli-us.org/2022/05/08/intly…
#IntlYALit #SouthAfricanYALit
#Comedy #ReadingAfrica
ALT Spud, by John van de Ruit.
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Jessica Powers retweeted
Crooks and Straights, by Masha du Toit.
Those who are fans of fantasy and young magicians' coming-of-age titles will enjoy this book. Read more:
glli-us.org/2022/05/30/intly…
#ReadingAfrica #SouthAfricanYALit #IntlYALit
ALT Crooks and Straights, by Masha du Toit.
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Jessica Powers retweeted
Lit Hub: Books that travel: a report from the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair
lithub.com/books-that-travel…
#ReadingAfrica #AfricanLit #Nairobi #Kenya
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
To celebrate #ReadingAfrica Week, @catalyst_press has organised three online events to spotlight African literature starting today.
All events are free to attend and held online, from 5 – 8 December 2023.
Learn more: bit.ly/47JPUdc
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with YOUR BODY IS WAR by @MShiferraw which contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. @AfricanPoetryBF
bit.ly/40ZxVNf
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
THE FUTURE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE DAWN wrestles with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa’s Ivory Coast in the first decade of the millennium. #ReadingAfrica
Save during our Holiday sale: bit.ly/UNPholiday2023
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Jessica Powers retweeted
Jen Thorpe aims to read every book written by #SouthAfricanWomxnWriters. We went along on part of the journey!
This is an incredibly comprehensive look at titles from 2015-2021. Learn more here:
glli-us.org/2021/01/30/south…
#ReadingAfrica #SouthAfricanLit @Jen_Thorpe
ALT Jen Thorpe, nee Jen Smout.
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Igbo is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Igbo people, a once autonomous people who live in Nigeria, Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea. We're proud to publish nearly two dozen titles in this important African language. ohbd-rsgbooks.com/catalog/fi…
#ReadingAfrica #ReadingAfricaWeek
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Team pick #3 reopens a plagiarism scandal & reexamines the place of African writing in its light:
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's magical La Plus Secrete Memoire Des Hommes, trans. @laravergnaud, The Most Secret Memory of Men penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
#ReadingAfrica week - @catalyst_press
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Jessica Powers retweeted
5 Dec 2023
(BC somehow we were asleep on Sunday) Today we've 2x AiW picks of 2023's reads for @catalyst_press' #ReadingAfrica week -
Day 2's is @iwalesino's Everything is Sampled - a faceted long view on the production of African arts & letters in the digital age:
iupress.org/9780253065667/ev…
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5 Dec 2023
RT @catalyst_press: Though we don't publish any work by Palestinian writers (yet!), we wanted to support as best we could. Visit our site t…
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