Creative Writing Masters student, Nondwe Mpuma scooped the top award for emerging poets at the 2018 McGregor Poetry Festival.
Mpuma won the 2018 Patricia Schonstein Award for her poem Home.
Nondwe Mpuma, UWC student
I’m honoured to have won. I was not expecting to win, even though I had been notified that I was shortlisted for an award
Mpuma receives funding from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE), through the Food as Symbol in Creative Writing and Performance’project, which falls within the Food Politics Programme at the CoE. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the goal of the Food Politics Programme facilitatescollaboration using a rangeof creative and practice-based research to better understand foodsystems as sites of cultural performance, social resistance and aestheticexpression.
One outcome of this is the publication of Cutting Carrots the Wrong Way: Poetry and Prose about Food. The volume features contributions by postgraduate students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The collection explores the intersections between family, security, identity, society and food. Mpuma’s winning poem is featured in this volume and will now feature in the 2018 Poetry in McGregor Anthology.
She is currently in her first year of her Masters degree at UWC’s English Department, and hopes to graduate in 2020.
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