Deadline: 15 August 2017 Prize: $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2018 playwriting competition. The winning play will...
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The five plays (The Pump Room, Comrade Babble, Boykie and Girlie, Jerico and Book Marks) explore the contradictions and dreams of the new and old South Africa’s as well as universal themes that include conflicts like the one in Israel/Palestine....
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Firepool is a chronicle of South Africa in the ‘second transition’ – one in which the foundations of the post-apartheid settlement are questioned in all kinds of ways. From the complex legacy of artists like JM Coetzee to the #FeesMustFall...
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PEN SA members Karin Brynard and Jacques Steenkamp contributed to this collection. In this compelling collection of short stories 14 Afrikaans writers take on the detective genre. An assembly of cunning criminals face up to their opposite numbers on the...
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Why do we keep anything? All morning I hear the pages rustling softly in the stacks. Autumn comes to all leaves. This seventh collection from one of South African poetry’s under-appreciated masters is possibly his best yet. Metatextual, meticulous and...
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