PEN SA member Niq Mhlongo will be holding a writing workshop at Bridge Books in Johannesburg from Monday 20 to Friday 24 February 2017. The workshop will be held in the evenings from 6 PM to 8 PM and will...
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Deadline: 31 January 2017 midnight, East African time Writivism is calling for applications for its 2017 Creative Writing Mentoring programme. The stories that the selected writers produce during the mentoring will be automatically entered for the 2017 Writivism Short Story...
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Deadline: 26 February 2017 What we want: Short stories of up to 7,000 words by women writers, responding to the theme of ‘ghosts.’ Set your story in any genre, time or place.Your ghosts can be literal or symbolic. Give us...
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Deadline: Sunday 12 March 2017 Application fee: $30 The Kerouac Project offers four three-month writers’ residencies a year in Orlando, Florida, USA in the cottage where Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums. Applications are open for the following periods:...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Petina Gappah, whose novel The Book of Memory is a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. The winner will be announced on 22 February 2017 and honored at the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards...
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