Deadline: 28 February 2019 (Submissions open 1 February 2019) Local poetry press uHlanga is having an open submissions period for original manuscripts of South African poetry in February 2019. Submissions may be made in English, Zulu, Xhosa, or Afrikaans. uHlanga...
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In an extraordinary debut, Megan Ross writes the uneasy truths about unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. In deftly and experimentally navigating the angst, joy and self-reckoning that comes with the choices and misadventures of young womanhood, this is...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Stephen Symons for garnering an honourable mention for the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. His debut collection Questions for the Sea, published in 2016 by uHlanga, was lauded by judge John Keene as a “collection...
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Deadline: Submissions will be open from 1 February to 28 February 2017 PEN SA member Nick Mulgrew’s poetry publishing press uHlanga is having an open submissions period for chapbooks and collections of poetry from South Africa poets or poets living...
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Genna Gardini’s poem “Performance Scale” was nominated by PEN South Africa for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award, along with Liam Kruger’s story “Sarah“. PEN Afrikaans nominated Carien Smith and her story “Likkewaan“. Read our Q&A with Genna below...
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