duduzile zamantungwa mabaso is a poet, scriptwriter, editor, publisher and founder of Black Letter Media and the online poetry journal poetrypotion.com. She has performed poetry on various stages throughout South Africa; her work has also been published in Timbila, Botsotso, Donga and poetrypotion.com. She founded poetrypotion.com in 2007 and has so far published hundreds of poems from around the world. Since 2006, she been produced as a scriptwriter, storyliner and, script and story editor. She started as a trainee writer on Ubizo-The Calling and then moved into storylining at Muvhango. She then storylined and wrote scripts for South Africa’s first telenovella iNkaba and a political thriller Ihawu. She has written scripts for the children’s program Thabang Thabong as well as soapies and dramas such as Zabalaza, Tempy Pushas season 2, Soul City 12, Igazi (in production) and Mamello; and a Lokshin Bioskop movie, Viva Gomora. Her most recent work is as Head of Scripts and Story on the telenovela, Uzalo. Through Black Letter Media, she is working to publish new voices out of Africa and bridge the gap between readers and undiscovered writers. She’s achieving this by continuing to publish poetry and fiction.
