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Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Homesoil in My Blood – a selection from his life’s work – out soon from Xarra Books
A new book of poetry by Keorapetse Kgositsile will be out soon from Xarra Books. The book, titled Homesoil in My Blood: …
Full Abantu Book Festival programme revealed – get your tickets now!
The full programme for the Abantu Book Festival has been revealed!
Win 1 of 10 R1000 vouchers or a book hamper with the Exclusive Books Christmas catalogue, edited by Nik Rabinowitz
The Exclusive Books Christmas Catalogue 2017 is out and it’s edited by the hilarious Nik Rabinowitz. The catalogue contains over 130 books to …
Entries open for Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
Submissions are open for the 2018 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.
African artists: Apply for the Africa Centre’s Artist In Residency programmes
Africa Centre is accepting applications for its 2017 Artist In Residency (AIR) Programmes in Australia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and the United States.
Poetry publishers and self-published poets invited to enter the 2018 Ingrid Jonker Prize
THE 2018 INGRID JONKER PRIZE FOR ENGLISH POETRY This is a call for submissions for the Ingrid Jonker Prize 2018. Publishers or …
Zinzi Clemmons: Women of colour must divest from Lena Dunham
Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has condemned Lena Dunham’s ‘hipster racism’, saying: ‘She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us.’
Reading to Write: Don’t miss this Abantu Book Festival warm-up event with Athambile Masola and Sihle Khumalo
Kaya FM and the Abantu Book Festival bring you their first book club meeting of the summer!
Gabeba Baderoon and PEN SA call for immediate release of Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé
Gabeba Baderoon has written to the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, calling for the release of …
Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, included on Powerlist 2018
Delia Jarrett-Macauley, the first African Chair of the Caine Prize, has been included on the 2018 Powerlist, which honours the most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.
Career opportunities at the South African Book Fair and South African Book Development Council
The South African Book Development Council (SABDC) has advertised four career opportunities. The SABDC is responsible for the South African Book Fair and …
NB Publishers and The President’s Keepers author Jacques Pauw respond to the State Security Agency
NB Publishers and The President’s Keepers author Jacques Pauw have responded to the State Security Agency’s cease-and-desist letter.
State Security Agency threatens criminal charges over Jacques Pauw’s Zuma exposé The President’s Keepers
NB Publishers has received a cease-and-desist letter for ‘Unlawful Publication of Classified Information’ from the State Security Agency regarding Jacques Pauw’s explosive new book The President’s Keepers.
Sign up for the Abantu Book Festival Creative Writing Masterclass with Nthikeng Mohlele and Zukiswa Wanner
Nthikeng Mohlele and Zukiswa Wanner will be leading a Creative Writing Masterclass at this year’s Abantu Book Festival!
Wole Soyinka’s Inaugural Lecture at the University of Johannesburg
Professor Wole Soyinka joined the University of Johannesburg as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University’s Faculty of Humanities this year.
An anniversary dinner to remember: Read an excerpt from A Hat, A Kayak and Dreams of Dar
Journalist and labour commentator Terry Bell has a new book out: A Hat, A Kayak & Dreams of Dar. It’s a memoir …
2017 Abantu Book Festival line-up revealed!
The line-up for the second annual Abantu Book Festival has been announced!
Dates and venues announced for the second Abantu Book Festival
The Abantu Book Festival organisers have revealed the first poster for the event, as December approaches.
House of Stone, the debut novel from Novuyo Tshuma, eagerly anticipated in the UK
Novuyo Tshuma’s first novel House of Stone will be published by Atlantic Books in the UK in June 2018.
Don’t miss Siphiwo Mahala’s hit play The House of Truth at The Theatre on the Square
Siphiwo Mahala’s play The House of Truth will be showing at The Theatre on the Square at Nelson Mandela Square from 31 October.