SarahBelle Selig

SarahBelle Selig is a freelance writer living in Cape Town and a first-year in the MFA in creative writing program at University of Cape Town. She freelances for Catalyst Press, an independent publisher out of California, and is the publicity writer for the South African Bone Marrow Registry.

Cape Town, South Africa

Winter 2021
SarahBelle Selig

Photos by SarahBelle Selig THE WIND KEEPS THE CITY in motion. The pine trees grow sideways away from the peaks, bowed seaward by the southeasterly. It snaps you to attention,...
The Book Lounge: Cape Town’s Resilient Indie

Summer 2020
SarahBelle Selig

Crowds gather almost every evening at The Book Lounge for regular book launches. Picture here: the launch of Henry Trotter's book Cape Town: A Place Between by Catalyst Press....
What Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov Taught Me about Quarantine: Lessons on Confinement and Camaraderie from Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow

April 7, 2020 | SarahBelle Selig

“By the smallest of one’s actions, one can restore some sense of order to the world.”—Amor Towles Under lockdown with her four roommates in Cape Town, South Africa, SarahBelle Selig recalls all t...