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Friday, 14 March 2014 12:00
Saul Musker is the winner of the 2013 Hofmeyr Prize for Poetry
Poems of the City City life for the devout of Capitalism I A street in a concrete city. The urban warrior is nigh on sixty, Fast approaching his quota of THREE SCORE AND TEN. He strides along the concrete pavement, eye-level with ambition, an outer membrane of pin-stripe polyester. Dadadadadadadadada Machine gun fire from the fourteenth floor, Spraying the street below with greed and envy. NO! NO! I am in the womb! Do you hear my cry? Once more unto the breach, cries the urban warrior making his escape And launches himself, O Chivalrous Knight, Into the gaping…
Friday, 14 March 2014 11:58
Tayla Kaplan is the winner of the 2013 Hofmeyr Prize for Fiction
Scraped “Maaa? I need help with homework.” A grumbled sound of assent comes from her bedroom. You shuffle in, offering your third grade crudely stapled booklet towards her hand. “It’s a crossword puzzle and we need to find words that have “ape” in them. I found “cape” and “tape” and I found one here but I don’t know if it’s a word or not. Here. R. A. P. E. Is it a word, ma? Is it?” That interchange is all you can think of. Is it a word, ma? Your nine year old voice rings around your head like…
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 00:00
Wits University adopts ITCH
ITCH is proud and delighted to announce that the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has taken over its publication. The first issue of ITCH (and the eleventh issue of the online journal overall) to be published by the University will appear in April 2013.This is an exciting new development for ITCH, as it means that the journal will benefit not only from the insitutional backing of one of the most prestigious universities in South Africa, but that it will also be able to draw on the immense wealth of intellectual and creative…
Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:35
Contributor Networking Event
ITCH contributors, past and present, based in Johannesburg, South Africa (or nearby) are invited to attend a lunch networking event on Friday 11 May 2012, from 13h00 - 15h00. The event will take place at the University of the Witwatersrand (in the Graduate Seminar Room in the South-west Engineering Building, East Campus) and refreshments will be provided. The event is generously sponsored by the University Faculty of Humanities and is part of the 2012 WALE Festival. Members of the ITCH community are warmly invited to attend and meet the ITCH team as well as fellow contributors and to find out…
Thursday, 03 May 2012 00:09
ITCH welcomes a new intern: Woodman Maphalala
ITCH is very pleased to welcome a new intern to the fold. Woodman Nhlanhla Maphalala is currently a student at the University of the Witswatersrand, and is studying a Postgraduate Degree in Creative Writing. Woodman is an energetic, social, hardworking individual who enjoys reading and doing creative activities such as painting and writing in his down time. In addition he has a passion for music and entertainment, when he is not trying to dominate his friends' News Feeds on Twitter and Tumblr. He finished his undergraduate degree last year, majoring in English and Media Studies.
Saturday, 03 March 2012 09:27
` submissions are closed!
Thank you to everyone who submitted work for the next issue of ITCH Online, to be curated around the symbol ≠. The editor is currently going through all submissions and preparing the next magazine. As ITCH is a volunteer-run magazine which is squeezed in-between many other day-jobs and salary-earning projects, this tends to take a little longer than usual. Contributors are kindly requested to remain patient and understanding - you will receive confirmation of your submission as soon as possible, and you will receive notice of whether or not your work has been accepted by the end of March 2012.…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:44
ITCH seeks two interns for 2012
Wanted: ITCH Interview Intern (2012) ITCH magazine wishes to expand its MetaText sections in the three editions planned for 2012 by including a greater number in-depth interviews with people of interest. We are seeking an intern who would take responsibility for this element of the magazine, and produce at least three interviews for each 2012 magazine (a minimum of nine interviews in total over the year). 'People of interest' could include artists, writers, academics, activists, community leaders, or social/cultural innovators working on any topic. The intern will be responsible for identifying people of interest to interview (although guidance can be…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:42
Regular ITCH columnists invited
For 2012, ITCH expects to continue to attract the diverse range of submissions from writers and artists that has characterized the past nine issues of the online magazine. We would like to expand this further by placing attention on growing the 'MetaText' section of the website. This section invites 'non-fiction' pieces - broadly conceived as any form of expression that comments upon an existing work (such as in the form of a book or exhibition review, or an essay about a cultural phenomenon) or aspect of social, economic or cultural life (such as in the form of an opinion piece…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:41
Book reviews invited!
ITCH is currently seeking more book reviews for the three editions planned for 2012. We welcome any reviews of any books - newly released or already on circuit - or critical reflections on any published volume. Contributors who wish to request review copies of books from publishers in order to write about them for ITCH are welcome to contact the ITCH editor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose the review and request a letter confirming that it will be published in ITCH.
Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:27
ITCH plans three editions in 2012
ITCH magazine is pleased to announce that it plans to publish three online editions in 2012. Keeping with the approach of selecting a commonly recognized symbol as the fulcrum around which submissions are invited and curated, the first issue for 2012, ITCH e.10, will be themed ≠ (not equal to). It invites contributions in a variety of genres and media that engage in some way, no matter how laterally, with the notion of in/equality. Submissions for ITCH e.10 are currently open, and will close on 28 February 2012. The themes for ITCH e.11 and e.12 will be announced only once…