A podcast dedicated to the art of reading aloud and for bringing the voice of emerging writers in the literary forefront. Each month, your host Seher Hashmi will invite an author to read from his or her or their own work and share a short excerpt by his or her or their favourite author. A short talk about his or her or their writing process will follow in. Get reading with us!
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Send a text In the 16th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with a young and emerging writer Esibako Ndabeni from Pretoria, South Africa who is an accomplished author and a certified healer called sangoma in Afrikan. Her debut anthology Born to Kwaito was well-received amongst the fans of post-apartheid music genre Kwaito which originated in a small town of Soweto, Johannesburg in 1990s. Sacred Earth Philosophy, her second book of non-fiction, maps her journey and rite of initiation as a prof...
2 Jan 2026
The Bookend with Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz
In the 15th episode, The Bookend has the pleasure of hosting Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz, an MIT alumna and a management consultant by profession, is an award winning poet from the USA. She has published two chapbooks of poetry titled All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents and Power Point. Her debut All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents bagged many awards such as San Diego Writers Festival Short Poetry Collection of the year 2024 and California Press Women Communication Prize in Creative ...
3 Apr 2024
The Bookend with Vaijayantee Bhattacharya
In 14th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with Vaijayantee Bhattacharya, an accomplished author, poet, editor with a vast experience in the field of print journalism and publishing industry both in India and Bahrain. Mosaic Vision her debut collection inspired by her work and life lived in Bahrain and India - launched in her hometown Kolkata - is an exploration of the sensuous. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
14 Mar 2024
The Bookend with Jason L Moore
In episode 13, The Bookend has the privilege of hosting Jason L Moore, a lecturer of Philosophy, an instructor in Theology and an accomplished mental health coach from USA whose book Divine Frustrations explores the questions of faith and existence of God from the perspective of a common man.Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
29 Feb 2024
The Bookend with Carol Ann Davids
In the 12th episode of The Bookend, welcome Carol Ann Davids, an award winning novelist, editor and a publisher from South Africa who has been short listed for the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize 2013, longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2013; longlisted for the inaugural Kawani? Manuscript Project, and shortlisted for the EU Literary Award in 2012.Her debut novel The Blacks of Cape Town was a top seller in South Africa and second title How To Be A Revolutionary w...
14 Feb 2024
The Bookend with Jamie Edelbrock
In the 11th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with Jamie Edelbrock an award-winning author of children's books, teacher, speaker and a mental health advocate based as an expat in Indonesia. Jamie Edelbrock has authored three wonderful and widely appraised books for children titled as Tangled Up, Be the Sparkel and The Adventures of Little Selfie a recent release which she is busy promoting now a days. The books are remarkable for normalizing and initiating the discussion of mental hea...
1 Feb 2024
The Bookend with Amani Altawash
In episode 10, we welcome our first Bahraini author, novelist, artist and designer Amani Altawash whose debut novel Binat Gulnar has just been released and one of the top selling books in Bahrain. Binat Gulnar is remarkable for its immense scope spanning over many decades starting from the earliest point in 1920 when people from Iran began migrating to Bahrain in small boats and dinghies and for penning down the troubles they faced.Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggest...
18 Jan 2024
The Bookend with Thandiwe Ntshinga
In the 9th episode of The Bookend, we welcome the South African writer Thandiwe Ntshinga, a researcher, anthropologist, poultry farmer and the author of Black Racist Bitch: How Social Media Reveals South Africa's Unfinished Work on Race. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
4 Jan 2024
The Bookend with A R Arthur
In the 8th episode of The Bookend meet A R Arthur, an emerging poet of mixed ethnicities from Middle East whose poems are reflective of his coming-of-age journey while travelling back and forth between the UK. US and Kuwait. Apart from several publications in literary journals, there are three chapbooks to his credit titled as The Great Northern Journey, Vultures and Half Bred which won The Poetry Question chapbook contest 2021. Currently, AR Arthur is the editor-in-chief of...
17 Dec 2023
The Bookend with Rodney D Harper
In the7th episode of The Bookend , meet Rodney Harper, an actor, podcaster, author, screenplay writer and a devout follower of Christ whose preachings have been a vital source for his life and creativity spurring on Rodney to write a book titled Drought Stricken. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
1 Dec 2023
The Bookend with Maria C Palmer
In the 6th episode of TheBookend, welcome Maria C Palmer an eminent writer, award winning tv/radio journalist well known in the echelon of showbiz and as a food critic in restaurant business. OnThe Rocks and What I Learned on The Bus, two of her critically acclaimed books add to her authorial honor. In this snippet, Maria C Palmer reads from On The Rocks taking us down the memory lane of her father whose singlehanded struggle to open up family restaurant called The Primadonna while grapp...
15 Nov 2023
The Bookend with Masande Ntshanga
In this episode The Bookend sits down with Masande Ntshanga- a trailblazer in the field of literature- the author of two award winning novels titled The Reactive and Triangulum, and a book of prose and poetry called Life in the Third Millennium. Apart from winning critical acclaims and literary awards, Masande has applied his tech savviness to pioneer an experimental press called MDLSEE MEDIA. Take a listen to his reading and conversation on how to combine tech with literature for ...
17 Oct 2023
The Bookend with Kalisha Buckhanon
In episode 3, The Bookend has a heart to heart with Pushcart Prize nominee Kalisha Buckhanon, a speaker, podcaster, commentator, and above all a prominent novelist with five novels titled as Upstate, Conception, Solemn, Speaking of Summer and recent release Running to Fall, to her credit. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
1 Oct 2023
The Bookend with Liz Chang
In episode 2, Liz Chang, the poet laureate Montgomery County USA, who has authored two full length collections of poetry titled Provenance and What Ordinary Objects along with two chapbooks namely Animal Nocturne and Museum of Things, reads from her eclectic oeuvre. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
11 Sept 2023
The Bookend with Sophia Naz
The Bookend sat down with Sophia Naz, a bilingual American poet of South Asian descent, two times Pushcart Prize nominee both for her loaded poetry and poignant prose and the author of five collections of poetry titled as Pointillism, Peripheries, Date Palm, Open Zero and recently published Bark Archipelago. Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
23 Aug 2023
The Bookend with JS Wolfe
The author/publisher/meditation coach JS Wolfe reads from her memoir The Pathology of Innocence and The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution and breaks down her writing process to us.Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
13 Aug 2023
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The Bookend - a podcast for budding writers and for the love of reading aloud.Get reading with us. For requests, features and suggestionsfollow on Instagram @thebook.end
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