Catalyst Press

On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

Hannes Barnard and Andreas Roman Talk to Jessica Powers

 
By Jessica Powers  May 16, 2025
Music Writing

Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

By Literary Hub  December 5, 2024
African Literature

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

By Jessica Powers  August 5, 2024
Critical Race Theory

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
African Literature

Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

By Jessica Powers  December 4, 2023
Genre

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  September 27, 2023
Interview with an Indie Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Catalyst Press

By Katie Yee  March 3, 2023
Daily Fiction

Eye Brother Horn

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 20, 2023
African Literature

#ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

By Literary Hub  December 8, 2022
Colonialism

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

By Caroline Kurtz  April 25, 2022
Daily Fiction

The History of Man

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 13, 2022
In Conversation

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

By Literary Hub  December 7, 2021
Daily Fiction

“The Fish Tank Crab”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 3, 2021
Book Origins

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
Feature

5 Books You May Have Missed in February

By Bethanne Patrick  March 14, 2019
Essay

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf  September 17, 2018

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