Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang, Head of Communications Nick Mulgrew, and members Efemia Chela and Simone Haysom, who have been named in the Africa Centre’s 2017 Artists in Residency Shortlist. These shortlisted artists – as well as...
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Deadline: poetry, 1 March 2018; fiction, 1 April 2018 The classic British magazine Ambit is open for poetry submissions until 1 March 2018, and will open for fiction submissions from 1 March 2018 for one month. Our poetry submissions window...
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Deadline: March 17 2018 Submissions are open to African poets for 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, an upcoming anthology guest-edited by Sudan’s Safia Elhillo, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and Nigeria’s Gbenga Adesina, co-winner of the 2016 Brunel International African...
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PEN SA members Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Jane Taylor will take part in Entanglements and Aftermaths: Reflections on Memory and Political Time, a conference convened by WiSER. The conference will be held on 22–24 February 2018. Entanglements and Aftermaths will...
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The first of February every year marks World Read Aloud Day, a day on which writers and members of the public read aloud to children. For this year’s #WRAD18, local literacy advocates Nal’ibali hoped that one million South African children...
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