I have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize ("Wash Away My Sins"), and two-time Best of the Net awards for my poetry which was published in Deaf Poets Society and for an essay published in Synchronized Chaos. I am the recipient of two writing grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg, another from the Centre for the Book in Cape Town, and one from ECPACC in East London (the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council). I won my first writing competition for Upbeat Magazine (a national magazine in South Africa) in high school.I am a blogger (my blog is called African Renaissance and I blog with Goodreads, and I write for Great Health Watch and Newslineplus). I am an editor, aspirant filmmaker and playwright, poet, essayist, chapbook, novelist, novella, grant, and short story writer. I briefly studied film at NFTS (Newtown Film and Television School) in Johannesburg. I was educated in Port Elizabeth and Swaziland. I am the Contributing Editor for African Writer Magazine based in New Jersey and an editor at Mwanaka Media and Publishing which is situated in Zimbabwe. I have written op-ed pieces for local newspapers in the past and have written columns for the South African travel magazine Go and Weg. My latest book is Letter to Petya Dubarova which was released by Gazebo Books (Australia/New Zealand) and my publisher is Xavier Hennekinne. I am currently working on establishing satellite libraries in sub-economic areas in my community and applying for funding. I recently completed a creative writing course with the award-winning South African Writer Finuala Dowling called I Remember: A Short Course on Writing from Memory to brush up on and hone my writing skills. My essay was chosen as one of Afrocritik's 20 Remarkable African Essays for 2021.The 15th George Botha Memorial Lecture, prepared and delivered by Denise Zinn was held on the 8th of November 2023 at the South End Museum in Gqeberha. An extract was read out of my poem "The Theft of George Botha's Silence" to mark the occassion.My poem Commander-in-Chief Tennyson Mckay was recited by a learner from my alumn Alpha Primary School at a sports day in northern areas celebrating the life and times of this progressive principal.My poetry that appeared in the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award Anthology for 2023 will be presented at a Mental Health Festival in Kenya in October 2024.