Urban 2 picks up where the previous collection left off: collating and capturing new writing about the current urban experience of young South Africans across the board. Featuring a new writing from a large cross section of South Africans, this collection once again seeks to tap into the mind set and attitudes of what is really happening out there in the streets of this country. It reaches the soft underbelly of the city mind, and reveals that not all is angst, doom and gloom in the South Africa of today.

Urban One is a cutting-edge anthology that captures current South African popular culture. Seen more as moments in the lives of 15 to 30 year-old South Africans than a collection of short stories, the works send out a message that to be young and alive in post-apartheid South Africa is to participate in a freshly emerging, uniquely coloured and vibrant cultural experience. The feel is more Martin Amis than Andre Brink, Irvin Welsh than JM Coetzee. From a cross-section of young South African writers these stories present an immediate vision of life in urban South Africa.