Elleke Boehmer
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2025, Southern Imagining 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
Thought you all would enjoy this pic of the shadow of Cape Town’s Table Mountain at sunset. Talk about Southern Imagining!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thought you all would enjoy this pic of the shadow of Cape Town’s Table Mountain at sunset. Talk about Southern Imagining!
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@deepsouthsa.bsky.social @karavanpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
What more can I say? Perfect convo with Karen Schimke today @karavanpress.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What more can I say? Perfect convo with Karen Schimke today @karavanpress.bsky.social
Oh, what a night! Discussing willed telepathy, ice cracks and so much more about the two hemispheres and lovers flipping between them, with Michele Magwood and this brilliant LoveBooks audience. @karavanpress.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Oh, what a night! Discussing willed telepathy, ice cracks and so much more about the two hemispheres and lovers flipping between them, with Michele Magwood and this brilliant LoveBooks audience. @karavanpress.bsky.social
So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
In beautiful Krakow to talk about JM Coetzee’s The Pole (2022). So many angles to this novella.
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@engfac.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
In beautiful Krakow to talk about JM Coetzee’s The Pole (2022). So many angles to this novella.
@engfac.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
More about ICE SHOCK and see the new UK Valley Press cover: spot the differences!
www.ellekeboehmer.com/ice-shock/
www.ellekeboehmer.com/ice-shock/
October 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
More about ICE SHOCK and see the new UK Valley Press cover: spot the differences!
www.ellekeboehmer.com/ice-shock/
www.ellekeboehmer.com/ice-shock/
Opening John Le Carre exhibition and launching accompanying book at the Bodleian last night! @bodhumslib.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Opening John Le Carre exhibition and launching accompanying book at the Bodleian last night! @bodhumslib.bsky.social
Photographer extraordinaire! Cousin Annemie Boehmer and ‘Ice Shock’ cover. Karavan Press.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Photographer extraordinaire! Cousin Annemie Boehmer and ‘Ice Shock’ cover. Karavan Press.
Evita Peron (Rachel Zegler) singing to the London crowd! A big treat.
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Evita Peron (Rachel Zegler) singing to the London crowd! A big treat.
My story ‘The Boy in the Cave’ shortlisted in @theemmapress.bsky.social Open Call 25. Very exciting news! Photo of Spanish valley that sparked the story.
August 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My story ‘The Boy in the Cave’ shortlisted in @theemmapress.bsky.social Open Call 25. Very exciting news! Photo of Spanish valley that sparked the story.
Now at the full!
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Now at the full!
Introducing to BlueSky world!
August 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Introducing to BlueSky world!
August 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Cape Town friends — r any of you be free to buy a copy of my novel Ice Shock and take it to Cape Town Harbour, to the office of the Agulhas 2. There is the possibility of the novel going on board the icebreaker tomorrow. But they don’t have the time to get the book. Please consider your diaries!
July 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cape Town friends — r any of you be free to buy a copy of my novel Ice Shock and take it to Cape Town Harbour, to the office of the Agulhas 2. There is the possibility of the novel going on board the icebreaker tomorrow. But they don’t have the time to get the book. Please consider your diaries!
The thoughtful mother of a friend spotted this! A Nice Review—yay.
July 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The thoughtful mother of a friend spotted this! A Nice Review—yay.
On my way to give the first day keynote to talk at the Katherine Mansfield conference on the beautiful University of Birmingham campus. Excited. How KM has shaped my thought and my life.
July 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
On my way to give the first day keynote to talk at the Katherine Mansfield conference on the beautiful University of Birmingham campus. Excited. How KM has shaped my thought and my life.
I signed so many books in the past few days! Translations of Nile Baby and Bloodlines into new Chinese. PRC.
June 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I signed so many books in the past few days! Translations of Nile Baby and Bloodlines into new Chinese. PRC.
More cover! @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
More cover! @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social
General gorgeousness!
May 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
General gorgeousness!
And my novel Nile Baby out in China!
May 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And my novel Nile Baby out in China!
With the preview copy of my first monograph—April 1995.
April 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
With the preview copy of my first monograph—April 1995.
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I am overjoyed to announce that this South South literary engagements series is now launched and open for submissions. Honoured to be entrusted as General editor. @edinburghup.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
I am overjoyed to announce that this South South literary engagements series is now launched and open for submissions. Honoured to be entrusted as General editor. @edinburghup.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I am overjoyed to announce that this South South literary engagements series is now launched and open for submissions. Honoured to be entrusted as General editor. @edinburghup.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
I am overjoyed to announce that this South South literary engagements series is now launched and open for submissions. Honoured to be entrusted as General editor. @edinburghup.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social