Elleke Boehmer

Postcolonial Poetics will be featured as the Book at Lunchtime at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) on 30 January 2019. Elleke will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes, the panel will include: Professor Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford) Professor Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford) Professor Richard Drayton (King's College London) Dr Malachi...

Elleke will be at the Perth Writers' Festival on 24 February 2019, promoting the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark, and other southern writing. She will talk to Jane Cornes Maclean about the legacies of colonialism and how an individual can find their place in the world. All welcome. Book tickets

Elleke Boehmer will give a master class and lecture on "Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy" at the University of Amsterdam in May. This event takes the form of, firstly, a 2-hour masterclass led by Elleke Boehmer, aimed mainly at graduate students, focusing on the issues raised in the introduction and first chapter of Postcolonial...

Elleke is at the 2019 ACLALS conference in Auckland, where she will give a keynote address and launch her new book of short stories, To The Volcano. The keynote, entitled "On Decolonization: the radical power of literary thinking", will take place at 9am on Tuesday, 16 July 2019, with the book launch following over lunch the...

Elleke will launch her new book of short stories, To the Volcano and Other Stories, with Myriad Editions in London on 3 October 2019. Pre-publication copies will be available for signing by the author. All are warmly invited.

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing will host a wine reception to celebrate To the Volcano on 2 December at Wolfson College, Oxford. All are warmly invited.

Elleke's short stories will be featured in the 14 January 2020 edition of Blackwell's Short Stories Aloud - The most fun you can have in a bookshop on a Tuesday night. Listen to actors read short stories read by our guest authors. This month we are joined by Julie Mayhew, author of 'Impossible Causes', and...

The Cape Town launch of To the Volcano and Other Stories will take place at the Book Lounge on 25 February 2020. Elleke will be in conversation with Dr Barbara Boswell. Please RSVP to booklounge@gmail.com.

The Stellenbosch launch of To the Volcano and Other Stories will take place at the Protea Boekwinkel on 4 March 2020. Elleke will be in conversation with Dr Wamuwi Mbao. Please RSVP to akruger@proteaboekwinkel.com.

On 13 March, Elleke will be participating in Blown Away by Books 2020, the festival organised by the Friends of Fish Hoek Library. Wordsworth Books from Longbeach Mall will be selling books. Find out more about the festival.