The Hidden Lives of Writers

S01 E03 Niq Mhlongo

Multi-award-winning and much-translated writer Niq Mhlongo is in the studio to talk about his long and varied career. He describes how he got his start as a writer by flunking out of law school and how his early novels foreshadowed the Fees Must Fall movement. Niq tells us what to…

12 Jun 2023 1 hr 07 min

S01 E02 Sue Nyathi

Acclaimed and award-winning author Sue Nyathi joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how life has gone since she left the corporate world to become a full-time writer. Spoiler alert – it's gone really well! Sue breaks down how she got started as a writer, going back to…

5 Jun 2023 1 hr 12 min

S01 E01 Angela Makholwa

Fiona and Gail are joined by the brilliant and hilarious Angela Makholwa, author of Critical, But Stable, The Blessed Girl, Black Widow Society, and more. Angela tells us about her close encounters with serial killer Moses Sithole and how she needed a break from the darkness after Red Ink came…

29 May 2023 1 hr 19 min

Welcome to the Hidden Lives of Writers

Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel are working writers - and their favourite people are writers. Join them as they dive deep into HOW and WHY successful writers write.

30 Jan 2023 1 min