PEN SA members Simone Haysom and Mark Gevisser contributed pieces to this anthology In a collection of creative essays that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey brings together some of the most talented writers of...
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When Ed meets Charlotte one golden afternoon, the fourteen sleeping pills he’s painstakingly collected don’t matter anymore: this will be the moment he pulls things right, even though he can see Charlotte comes with a story of her own. They...
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Winner in the Film Category of the 2011 M-Net Literary Awards. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011: Best First Book, Africa region. Four friends’ lives seem to be crashing before them: Just as Nandi’s final wedding arrangements are put...
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An isolated farm in rural post-apartheid South Africa is the scene of a suspicious death that fractures a tense community. De Wildt, South Africa. Ouma is a white doctor running her own farm in the rural backwaters. Over eighty years...
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Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events, classes and workshops happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let...
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