Equal Education book Amagama eNkululeko! Words for freedom: Writing life under Apartheid! has been named as one of the Best Books for older readers at the 25th Annual Children’s Africana Book Awards. PEN SA member Zakes Mda wrote the foreword...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Member Manu Herbstein, whose book The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye has been named as one of the Honor Books for older readers at the 25th Annual Children’s Africana Book Awards. The book was first...
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Deadline: 31 July 2017 Literary projects are eligible for funding through the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT)’s grants programme: The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is now open for applications for grants disbursed through its restructured funding programme. ACT invites...
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Deadline: Sunday 18 June 2017 Prize: £100 Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou will be speaking at Africa Writes which is being held in London in July so AFREADA and Africa Writes are holding the Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty Competition, which invites...
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Deadline: 5 June 2017 (Update: Deadline extended to 12 June 2017) Commonwealth Writers and the School of Advanced Study, University of London, are looking for submissions from writers whose heritage includes the experience of indentured labour. The anthology (title tbc)...
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