Sunset Claws follows a generation of South Africans from 1976 to the millennium as they struggle to come to terms with what the birth of a nation has both given and taken from them. Told in three parts, the action...
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In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North America, and returning to South Africa in the euphoric 1990s. She reflects candidly on her discontent and...
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Deadline: Tuesday 31 October 2017 The Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award offers talented writers in need of financial support an opportunity to attend the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavík, Iceland in April, 2018. Who can apply Anyone who is aged...
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Deadline: Submissions open from 1 October to 31 October 2017 Prize: $12,000 advance and publication by Graywolf Press We are pleased to announce the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, to be awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author...
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Deadline: 15 October 2017 Press release: CALL FOR POEMS BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2017 ANTHOLOGY We are calling for BEST 1-3 poems per poet from Africa (living in Africa) or of African diasporas (one of the parents originated from Africa)...
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