Modjaji Books is an award-winning independent press that publishes southern African women writers. We fill a gap by providing a platform for serious and ground-breaking writing by new and established women writers. We publish short stories, novels, memoir, poetry, essays, narrative non-fiction.The history of publishing in South Africa is enmeshed with the culture of resistance that flourished under apartheid. There is a great need for more women’s voices and stories to be published, and particularly those of black women. We publish books that are true to the spirit of Modjaji, the rain queen: a powerful female force for good, new life and regeneration.
