The South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development published the draft Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill in October 2016. PEN South Africa, under the guidance of Vice-President Raymond Louw and with carefully debated contributions...
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PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. Nigeria: Police Raid Premium Times, Arrest Publisher, Journalist Policemen in plain clothes raided the head office...
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Deadline: Friday 17 February 2017 Local literary journal Type/Cast is calling for submissions for its third issue. The journal is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry and non-fiction: Third call for submissions: 26 Jan – 17 Feb 2017. Only send us...
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Deadline: Tuesday 2 May 2017 Pearson has announced that the genre for the 2017 Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards is children’s fiction. The awards aim to develop literature in all eleven official languages and give South African children the gift...
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Deadline: Monday 13 March 2017 Prize: £5,000 The Dundee International Book prize seeks to reward an original and memorable novel and Judges are looking for a quality manuscript in terms of style and content. The Prize favours literary fiction but...
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