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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Pictured: Co-founders of Imbewu Trust, Samantha de Romijn and Paul Griffiths, with Darrel Bristow-Bovey Congratulations to PEN SA member Darrel Bristow-Bovey, who has been named the winner of the 2017 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition for his play Priest With Balloons. See...
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The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. Congratulations to PEN SA member Jim Pascual Agustin, who has been shortlisted for his poem “Coligny Sunflowers Near Scotland Section, Tlhabologang Township”. PEN...
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(Pictured: Co-founders of Imbewu Trust Paul Griffiths and Sam de Romijn) The top three finalists of the 2017 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition have been announced and staged readings of their plays will be taking place at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective...
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In this, her third collection of poetry, Phillippa Yaa De Villiers invokes images of past and present with hypnotic clarity, summoning the heart and heat of memory – painful and happy alike – with the distinct musicality and visceral punch...
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