Known for his music, SAMA award-winning musician Nakhane Touré is changing tune with the release of his debut novel, Piggy Boy’s Blues. The novel, which has been described as reading fragments of a recurring dream, centres on the disastrous consequences...
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Deadline: 14 July 2017 Like many publishers who accept unsolicited manuscripts, we receive a large number of submissions every week. This means hours spent wading through many emails as we try to give every author feedback on their work. Writers...
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Selling LipService by PEN SA member Tammy Baikie won the 2015/16 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award: In Frith’s consumerist world, everyone has a stroke around the age of 18. After this coming of haemhorr-age, writing and speaking is only possible if...
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Jacana Media has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Gerald Kraak Award. PEN SA member Sisonke Msimang was the chair of the judging panel, who chose the shortlist of written and photographic pieces on the topics of gender, human rights...
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Kopano Matlwa stole South Africa’s heart with her debut novel Coconut. With almost 25,000 sales, this award-winning title cemented her position as one of South Africa’s bestselling authors. With her follow-up novel, Spilt Milk, Matlwa continued to amaze us with...
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