This is an excerpt from PEN SA member Lauren Beukes’s story “Riding with the Dream Patrol”, from the anthology How Free is FREE? Reflections on Freedom of Creative Expression in Africa, Arterial Network’s free ebook compilation of poems, articles and...
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By PEN SA Board Member Justin Fox The fourth McGregror Poetry Festival took place from 26 to 28 August 2016, coordinated and run by a local team led by Billy Kennedy and Jennifer Johnson. McGregor hosts this intimate festival each...
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PEN SA member Tracey Farren’s novel Whiplash has been adapted to film under the title Tess, directed by Meg Rickards. Whiplash was the first novel published by Modjaji Books, PEN SA member Colleen Higgs’s publishing house, in 2008. Tess won...
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Press release from Elvis Jarrs: Since 2009, people from all over the world have seen and discussed Chimamanda Ngozi’s speech about the danger of a single story. As Ngozi says, ending her speech: “Stories matter. Many stories matter.” An African...
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Deadline: 11 November 2016 Lancaster University and the University of the Western Cape will be holding the second Writing for Liberty Conference from 27 to 29 March 2017. Poet, journalist and academic Antjie Krog will be the keynote speaker. The...
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