Sustain
bios is currently a series of twelve non-fiction pieces about street life, the public health system and institutional failure in South African cities.
Written from the inside. No grants, no institution, no net.
There is nowhere else to publish this kind of writing in South Africa.
Once the twelve pieces have been published, I will be expanding bios in various ways.
I will start publishing reviews and discussions of music, film and other cultural moments as they happen – along the lines of the writing I did while running mahala and for The Con.
I will be working on a book called I Hardly Remember Their Names, comprised of roughly eighty short biographies of people I have met while living on and off the street since 2002. Some of these will be published here.
I will be covering news events from a similar perspective when possible. So often events are reported in stats and soundbites from spokespeople, we seldom hear from those most affected.
And I wish to publish other writers who approach their work this way, who are also struggling to find a space to be read, and to pay them for their work.
And to do this all I need your support. It's that simple.
If everyone who is currently reading my posts were to contribute between R50 and R100 per post, I would be able to concentrate full time on this project.
Do what you can.
In gratitude.
Capitec: RG Young / 1306041587
PayPal: dierogeryoung@gmail.com
res ipsa loquitur.