Literary website Brittle Paper has announced the shortlists for the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards. PEN SA members Petina Gappah and Sisonke Msimang were shortlisted in the Fiction and Essays / Think Pieces categories respectively. Gappah for her story “A...
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The PEN South Africa Young Writers to Watch event was held at the 2016 Open Book Festival on Wednesday 7 September at the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town’s District Six. This was the culmination of the PEN SA Student Writing...
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PEN SA is excited to announce that there will be an event at Open Book Festival profiling two of the very talented winners of the PEN SA Student Writing Prize. Koleka Putuma and Puleng Lange-Stewart will be speaking to PEN...
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PEN South Africa is very excited to announce the winner of the PEN SA Student Writing Prize. We ran this competition because we believe in the power of writing to effect change and inform the way we see the world and...
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“A love poem to the ‘Problematic’ Black Womxn” by Puleng Lange-Stewart came third in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize. Read a Q&A with Lange-Stewart here. A love poem to the ‘Problematic’ Black Womxn by Puleng Lange-Stewart Aggressive? No. she...
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