Congratulations to PEN SA Honorary Member J.M. Coetzee, who has received the inaugural Mahindra Award for the Humanities from the Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Harvard University. The award, which is named after Anand G. Mahindra ’77 and his wife...
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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 The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)...
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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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Interview by Nick Mulgrew Jane Duncan is one of South Africa’s foremost experts on freedom of expression and its intersections with civil society and our everyday ways of life. A professor in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television at the...
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Deadline: 7 September 2018 Papers and panel proposals, interpreting the theme “Unifying Africa: Writing and reading in African languages” are invited for submission for consideration for the 7th Africa Century International African Writers Conference. The full call for submissions follows below:...
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