Alfred T.M. Rossouw - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

South African based writer and copy editor with over six years of writing, editing, blogging, and book reviewing experience. I have worked across many industries, including literature, arts, and both the public and private sectors. I currently work as a freelance copy editor and writer, but I am also a founding member of a nonprofit organisation called The Black and Bookish Literacy Project. We are currently working on reviving school libraries in our community. I am a recipient of the 2023 Kammadagga Residency hosted by the Jakes Gerwel Foundation, and the 2024 Bosberg Book Writing Mentorship Programme by the Jakes Gerwel Foundation.

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Total articles 3

• The Chance Encounter | Alfred T.M. Rossouw | Fiction

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw| Brittle Paper Verified Sure, grootman, you can grab a seat. Nobody ever sits next to me, so you’ll always find an empty chair around me. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the relationship I was meant to have with other people: they can be around me, but never next to me. I see you want to order a drink. Well, you will have to be more resourceful than that here. You see, our warden over there is deaf in one ear. There are many theories as to how it actually happened, but trust me, none of them are worth giving an ear to.

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw · Brittle Paper

  Mar. 15, 2024

• REVIEW | Fred Khumalo's Crossing the River adds to vital discussions about immigration in Africa

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw| News24 Verified Share your Subscriber Article You have 5 articles to share every month. Send this story to a friend! Enter recipient email address This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. BOOK: Crossing the River by Fred Khumalo (NB Publishers) Read this for free Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw · News24

  Dec. 23, 2022

• The Chance Encounter | Alfred T.M. Rossouw | Fiction

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw| Brittle Paper Verified Sure, grootman, you can grab a seat. Nobody ever sits next to me, so you’ll always find an empty chair around me. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the relationship I was meant to have with other people: they can be around me, but never next to me. I see you want to order a drink. Well, you will have to be more resourceful than that here. You see, our warden over there is deaf in one ear. There are many theories as to how it actually happened, but trust me, none of them are worth giving an ear to.

  By Alfred T.M. Rossouw · Brittle Paper

  Mar. 15, 2024

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