Hedley Twidle is a writer, teacher and researcher based at the University of Cape Town, where he is Associate Professor and currently head of English Literary Studies. He is the author of two essay collections, Firepool (2017) and Show Me the Place (2024), as well as a study of life writing and the South African transition, Experiments with Truth (2019). His anthology The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Nonfiction (co-edited with Sean Christie) was published in May 2025.

Currently, he is collaborating with members of UCT's Neuroscience Institute on a project exploring the arts and literatures of dementia and memory loss.

Writing Forgetting event