A Review of The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South.
Maggie Messitt is the author of The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, longlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in South Africa, where she was a journalist and editor.About. Maggie Messitt has spent most of her career as a social entrepreneur, editor, and journalist inside underserved communities in rural South Africa and the American Midwest.My first book, The Rainy Season, is immersion and narrative journalism based in South Africa — where I lived for eight years — and the book I’m working on now is part memoir, part investigation, the story of my aunt who went missing in 2009. I suspect they also knew I would shake things up a bit in a traditional nonfiction workshop.
An independent narrative and immersion journalist, MAGGIE MESSITT has spent the last decade reporting from inside underserved communities in Midwestern America and southern Africa. A dual-citizen, Messitt lived in northeastern South Africa for eight years where she was the founding director of a writing school for rural African women, editor of.Author of THE RAINY SEASON, Messitt lived in northeastern South Africa for 8 years during which time she was a long-form reporter, newspaper editor, and founding director of a writing school. Since returning to the US, her essays and reportage have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Essay Daily, Memoir Journal, Mother Jones, River Teeth.
Maggie Messitt is the author of The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa.She lived in South Africa from 2003 to 2011. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Creative Nonfiction and Essay Daily.She is a scholar-in-residence at Elizabethtown College's Bowers Writers House and an Ohio University John Cady Doctoral Fellow.
