Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats
Edited by Tinashe Mushakavanhu & Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Black Chalk & Co., 2019
Paperback, 8 x 5.5 in.
258 pages
$25.00
WPA Note:
Black Chalk & Co. is an example of an interdisciplinary artist-organized collective and their work aligns with WPA’s values.
Description:
Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats is a book of writers on writing anecdotes, aphorisms, and excerpts culled from interviews and other sources. This edition brings together almost 150 Zimbabwean writers, editors, academics and publishers to provide a rare glimpse of what being a writer is really like.
About the Author(s):
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a writer, editor and scholar from Zimbabwe working at the intersection of art, design and technology. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kent. He has co-edited three books: Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats (2019); Visa Stories: Experiences Between Law and Migration (2013); and State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry (2013). He is co-creator and lead researcher on readingzimbabwe.com a digital archive collecting, cataloguing, digitizing and making available information on books about Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the present. He is also co-founder of a boutique creative agency, Black Chalk & Co, which brings together writers, artists, designers, academics, and technologists and engenders a new culture and new forms of publishing and creative production.
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator. She is invested in elevating the work and practices of Black peoples past, present, and future through a conceptual approach to design, publishing, archiving practices, and institution building. Mutiti holds a diploma in multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, with a concentration in graphic design.