With a slowly growing market, a steady stream of emerging voices in both print and spoken word, and the establishment of several interesting small presses, English-language poetry in South Africa is in as good a place as it’s ever been. With...
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Deadline: 1 November 2018 The 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for short fiction, is open for entries. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)...
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In 2012 Angy Peter was bringing up her young children with her husband, Isaac Mbadu, in Bardale, Mfuleni, on the Cape Flats. Angy and Isaac were activists, leading the charge for a commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha. Angy...
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PEN SA members Arthur Goldstuck and Gail Schimmel are set to appear at the Social Media Landscape Briefings 2019, will take place on 16 October 2018 in Johannesburg and 18 October 2018 in Cape Town. This year’s briefings for social media...
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Selected and edited by Karina M. Szczurek, the love letters between herself and the writer André Brink included in You Make Me Possible tell in detail the story of how they met in Austria in December 2004, fell in love,...
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