PEN SA members and staff feature prominently on the programme for the 2018 Poetry in McGregor festival, which this year is themed – appropriately enough, given the drought in the area – The Sound of Water. It is taking place...
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PEN South Africa called for creative responses to the state capture crisis in the form of short essays, fiction or poetry. This is one of the selected entries: Droëwaterval (on the Swartberg Pass) by CJ Driver Was it ever thus,...
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John Catt Educational Ltd has accepted for publication later this year what Jonty Driver describes as a “professional memoir”, an 80,000 word account of the various schools he worked in after his arrival in the U.K. in 1964, immediately after...
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Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events, classes and workshops happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let...
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We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets from the talks at the Open Book Festival 2015 featuring PEN SA members. As you can see from the Open Book programme, there is plenty going on. These tweets are just a...
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