Fiction

Monday – 20th November 2017

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.

What I learned from Ben Okri about creative writing

Midway through his sentence Ben Okri stands up and turns to the whiteboard. “Who knows their work well?” he asks. The students in the class look at each other. “Someone give me a line, a line of your work”.

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.

Two sisters with two very different destinies: Dip into Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing

The night Effia is born, a fire devastates her father’s land – and so begins a sequence of events that reverberate through the lives of her family for generations.

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.’

Friday – 17th November 2017

Presenting the new book by Ben Okri – The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age, illustrated by Rosemary Clunie

A new collection of meditations and stories from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri, and illustrated by Rosemary Clunie.

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!

Thursday – 16th November 2017

Guide to submitting your manuscript to Jonathan Ball Publishers

Have you finished your book? Wondering how to get published? Have a look at Jonathan Ball Publishers manuscript submission guidelines.

Tuesday – 14th November 2017

Read an excerpt from Rehana Rossouw’s second novel, New Times

Ali Adams is a political reporter in Cape Town where she is trapped in a tangle of razor-wire politics and culture

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.

Penguin Random House SA Book Club: November selection

If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can discover Penguin Random House SA’s latest suggestions.

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 …

Monday – 13th November 2017

Presenting New Times – the new novel from Rehana Rossouw

New Times is the much-anticipated new novel from Rehana Rossouw, the acclaimed and award-winning author of What Will People Say?,

Win two Jack Reacher novels, plus a Russell Hobbs Illuma Coffee Machine

Penguin Random House SA is giving away two Jack Reacher hampers to celebrate the release of The Midnight Line!

Friday – 10th November 2017

Etisalat Prize-shortlisted book The Seed Thief by Jacqui L’Ange to be made into an international film

Jacqui L’Ange’s novel The Seed Thief is to be made into an international film.

Wednesday – 8th November 2017

Five African authors up for €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

The Johannesburg Review of Books reports that five African authors have made the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.