Sunday Times (3 August 2025)
Announcing the longlists for SA’s most prestigious annual literary awards for non-fiction and the fiction award
Mambaonline (30 June 2025)
Alistair Mackay is having a moment. The acclaimed South African author, who has steadily built a reputation for bold, emotionally intelligent writing, has just released his new short story collection, The Lucky Ones.
YouTube (27 May 2025)
Jarred Thompson in conversation with Alistair Mackay about his latest collection of short stories, The Lucky Ones
Mail & Guardian (1 July 2025)
Alistair Mackay’s work mainly explores queerness, mental health, social justice and climate change. In his second novel, The Child, he looks at the complexities of a gay couple returning
Business Day (12 June 2025)
The first story in the collection, Fever Tree is one of the most powerful explorations of grief I have read…
News24 (17 June 2025)
A short story collection from the author of the acclaimed novels It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way and The Child, The Lucky Ones crosses centuries and continents, looking at LGBTQIA+ love and the…
Die Burger / Netwerk24 (14 April 2025)
Review of The Lucky Ones. “This brilliant collection… proves that good fiction doesn’t comfort us. It opens our minds and our senses.”
The Local Lit Scene (1 November 2024)
Listen as I chat to Alistair, author of The Child, and It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way – a Cape Town Dystopian. We laugh our way through this episode, chat about which of his books would make a good movie, spin off novels, creativity, self doubt and self care.
Die Burger / Netwerk24 (8 October 2024)
City Press (21 July 2024)
Daily Maverick (5 July 2024)
LitNet (25 June 2024)
Die Burger / Beeld / Netwerk24 (1 July 2024)
Sunday Times (30 June 2024)
Sunday Times (14 June 2024)
Lunch with Pippa Hudson, Cape Talk (7 June 2024)
Mambaonline (3 June 2024)
Mail & Guardian (23 May 2024)
The Citizen (25 May 2024)
Vrye Weekblad (10 May 2024)
News24 (21 May 2024)
Columbia University School of the Arts (4 April 2024)
African Arguments (October 2023)
Sunday Times (16 July 2023)
Het Zuid-Afrikahuis Cultuur en Kenniscentrum (4 May 2023)
Panel Discussion with Alistair Mackay, Welcome Mandla Lishiva, and Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane at Time of the Writer Festival (March 2023)
A Reader’s Community (March 2023)
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Brittle Paper (23 January 2023)
News24 (20 January 2023)
Daily Maverick (7 January 2023)
Sunday Times (2 January 2023)
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The Empty Chair / PEN South Africa podcast (S6E2; 1 December 2022)
Daily Maverick (4 October 2022)
Mail & Guardian (22 August 2022)
Gay Pages (Winter 2022)
New Frame (23 May 2022)
(Afrikaans)Vrye Weekblad (29 July 2022)
Cape{Town}Etc (27 July 2022)
Interview with Stephanie Be on 5fm (20 June 2022)
Culture Review Magazine (9 June 2022)
Sunday Times Lifestyle (20 May 2022)
Scaffold: For Queer Creators & Culture (13 May 2022)
MambaOnline (11 May 2022)
Sunday Times (8 May 2022)
Panel Discussion with Edgar Pieterse, Alistair Mackay, Kelly-Eve Koopman and Keely Shinners at Open Book Festival 2022 in Cape Town (21 April 2022)
Mother City News (4 April 2022)