The 2018 edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival is hosting – well – a host of PEN SA members. This year’s festival, held from 18-20 May in the eponymous Western Cape town, promises an exciting array of events, including a...
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Ninety percent of the world’s megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world. Within a very short time the megafauna – mammoths, mastodons, woolly rhinoceros and the huge...
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The annual PEN International New Voices Award provides a space for young and unpublished writers to promote their work. It also aims to encourage new writing in the more than 104 countries that PEN operates in as PEN Centres put...
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James Clarke’s short story “Old Iron” was nominated by PEN South Africa for the 2016 PEN International New Voices Award, along with Beatrice Willoughby’s poems “The Mad, Sad, Rad Collection“. PEN Afrikaans nominated Frederick J Botha and his story “Please...
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James Clarke’s short story “Old Iron” was nominated by PEN South Africa for the 2016 PEN International New Voices Award, along with Beatrice Willoughby’s poems “The Mad, Sad, Rad Collection“. PEN Afrikaans nominated Frederick J Botha and his story “Please...
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