🔥 Happy Heritage Day! 💎 This year of 31 A.P. (After Apartheid) - on the South African Calendar System (because we don't use the West's system from this post onwards!) On this auspicious day, from our 2nd-hand bookshelf: *Scotty Smith: South Africa's Robin Hood* by F. C. Metrowich For more, see: 👇

Ladies and Gallants . . . Spaced Ellipses presents a digital edition of one of our newest 'Little Classics' 🎇 "Gokatweng and the Buffaloes" A Batswana folklore originally transcribed by Sol T. Plaatje Published by: Spaced Ellipses © 2025 🔑: spacedellipses.co.za/product/goka... For more, see 👇

On Auction 126: Laurens van der Post – Three Inscribed First Editions 📚 'In a Province' (1934, Hogarth Press) 'A Bar of Shadow' (1954, Hogarth Press) 'The Dark Eye in Africa' (1955, Hogarth Press) For more, see: 🔑: antiquarianauctions.com/preview/in-a...

We sneaked a quick pic of the captain's cabin where all the magic comes from, while he's away! And if you're ever looking for the captain, he is never not behind the sunbeams, in the room on your left.

We sneaked a quick pic of the captain's reading den while he's away and would love to see yours too!

We sneaked a quick pic of the captain's writing desk while he's away and would love to see yours too!

Vladimir Holan (1905-1980, Czechoslovakia)

📚 New Arrival to our second-hand bookshelf 📚 *Don't Joke* (2009) by Andy Mason & John Curtis (Eds.) Features 26 Cartoonists For more, see: 🔑: spacedellipses.co.za/product/dont...

If you missed it or haven't seen it recently, I am still adding to this starter pack.

💫 Special Offer 💫 As part of our upcoming creative non-fiction submission call, Spaced Ellipses is offering a 50% discount on a copy of Prof. Anton Krueger's semi-autobiographical work - *Sunnyside Sal* 🔑: spacedellipses.co.za/product/sunn... *South Africa, only

Spaced Ellipses forms yet another alliance for the literature of our nation! All agent royalty splits of this deal will go towards the support of contemporary South African authors, and especially, our fledglings . . .

💎 Spaced Ellipses & Bees Books Special Announcement 💎 We have hereby . . . formed an Alliance! For more, see: 🔑: Bees Books: www.beesbooks.co.za 🔑: Spaced Ellipses: www.spacedellipses.co.za

Ladies and Couch Potatoes! Spaced Ellipses presents . . . our first audio adaptation! - can we get a WHOOP WHOOP! "The Origin of Death" Translated from the Nama by W. H. I. Bleek Read by Nokwanda Dlamini Cover design by Joshua Corban Publishing 🔑: www.youtube.com/@SpacedEllip...

💬We are Open for Submissions for Short Stories for Today Only💬 👇

The Floating Spaced Ellipses Trophy passes to . . . Claudio Perinot, for his remarkable emerging South African literary journal, 'KUDU' - and which receives from Spaced Ellipses, a bow in recognition of the hard-wrought excellence, of this new publication. 🔑: kudujournal.wordpress.com/archive/

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation presents the Brussels tot Karoo residency for Flemish and South African writers. The goal is to grant writers 3 weeks of uninterrupted time to work on a manuscript - in any genre. Please email [email protected] for more information, or apply at the link shown in the poster.

💐New Arrival💐 *The Story of an African Farm* by Olive Schreiner 🔑: spacedellipses.co.za/product/the-...

‪The Floating Spaced Ellipses Trophy passes to: Herman Melville for his short story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) The short story🔑: gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231 Film adaptation🔑: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yivi... "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!"

The Floating Spaced Ellipses Trophy goes to: Hilary Layne, of The Second Story, for her YouTube video: "The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing" 🔑: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvR... "I don't really understand why more people aren't aware of how intensely bad these books are for woman's minds."