Congratulations to PEN SA member Kirsten Miller, whose manuscript The Hum of the Sun has won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Adventure Manuscript! Press release: The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation is Delighted to Announce the...
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Photograph: Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke speaking at the ‘Raising key issues for transforming children’s literacy and literature’ dialogue, January 2016. This year PEN SA and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South...
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Online literary magazine Aerodrome recently redesigned their website – take a look at it here. PEN SA member Alexander Matthews is the editor of Aerodrome and has let us know that they will now be accepting flash fiction submissions: In...
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Congratulations to Thabo Jijana who has won the 2016 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry for his collection Failing Maths and My Other Crimes. The judges also commended PEN SA member Elisa Galgut for her collection, The Attribute of Poetry and...
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We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the PEN South Africa Student Writing Prize. We invited writers under the age of 30 to send in their fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry on the topic of the recent #FeesMustFall movement...
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