“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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“Water” by Koleka Putuma won the PEN SA Student Writing Prize. Read Putuma’s Q&A here. The memory of going to the beach every New Year’s eve Is one I share with cousins and most people raised black How the elders...
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“The Forgotten” by Sithembiso Khalishwayo came second in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize. Read a Q&A with Khalishwayo here. The Forgotten by Sithembiso Khalishwayo My name was meant to be 0962785. It was the name I was meant to...
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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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By PEN SA Board Member Mike van Graan, originally published on his blog, mikevangraan.wordpress.com on 4 March 2016 Read Part One here Read Part Two here Beyond “decolonization”: towards an emancipatory discourse and practice Our social media and public discourse...
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