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Niel Coetzee, mentor van die Longhope TV-skryf mentorskapsprogram, is die regisseur en medevervaardiger van die dokumentêre prent Rooi van aard wat vanjaar by die Silwerskermfees verskyn het. Lees meer oor […]
Dis Vrydag middag en ons wag nog vir die water. Water om die strate te versuip. ’n Wolk agterop ’n bakkie vlieg verby ’n man met ’n speaker op sy […]
It’s with great excitement that the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and M-Net Channels announce their chosen candidates for the Longhope TV Writing residency! This programme offers talented, emerging screenwriters the opportunity to hone their writing skills and learn from experienced […]
Die drie weke in die Paulethuis het my tyd en rus gegee om myself eindelik op skryf te kan fokus, en dit was toe ’n baie vrugbare periode; ek kon […]
Ek is ’n werksvrou. Dit maak my een van miljoene. Ek moet werk om kos op die tafel te sit, om te kan oorleef. Hierdie survival mode maak dat mens […]
Acclaimed Free State theatre-maker, filmmaker and activist, Jane Mpholo, who participated in the 2021 NATi Rising Stars residency, was named one of the 10 Proteas of Mzansi honourees for 2026. […]
Photos by Brick Mbekwa Lost in Translation? Or documenting our stories as art. There’s the immersive world that started when we walked into the Baxter Masambe Theatre: the myang stokkies, […]
Hulle noem dit “Die Vriendelike Stad” en ook “Die Winderige Stad”. Wel, vir my tweede besoek aan Gqeberha in vyf maande was dit wel vriendelik en daar was geen wind […]
I’m in the middle of packing for South Korea. Counting down the days until I hop on a plane and return to a place I once called home 10 years […]
Op ’n heilige Sondag, die eerste een in Augustus, is dit chaos in Paulet Huis. Dis leesboeke en chippies en koeldranke en rugsakke en nóg boeke. Mens kan skaars loop. […]
Jy hoef deesdae net jou foon op te tel en iemand sal gereed wees om al jou probleme en kwale uit te sorteer, skryf Yuwinn Kraukamp. Kraukamp was ’n deelnemer […]
Vyf-en-twintig verhale is gekies vir publikasie in die elfde kortverhaalbundel van die Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, Dis hoog tyd. Dit sluit in bekroonde digters, romansiers en kortverhaalskrywers soos Lynthia Julius (Kinderlê) en […]
Theolla Langenhoven, deelnemer van die 2020 Kommadagga Kortverhaalprojek en die 2024 Bosberg Boekskryfresidensie, se debuutroman, Soetroos van Saron het verlede maand by Kwela, Jonathan Ball Publishers verskyn. Ons het haar […]
Die Raad van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns kondig het vroeër vanjaar die wenners van die gesogte Akademiepryse vir 2026 aangekondig. Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting is verheug om […]
Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, Suidoosterfees, Artscape en NATi kondig met trots aan die suksesvolle kandidate wat vanjaar gekies is om vir drie weke in Paulet Huis in KwaNojoli onder leiding van Oscar Petersen aan hulle dramatekste […]
Die wenners van die 2026 UJ-debuutprys en die UJ-prys vir Afrikaans is verlede maand bekend gemaak. Boeke van alle genres wat in 2025 verskyn het, waarvan baie by kleiner, onafhanklike […]
Community members from various Cape Town suburbs regathered at Grassy Park High School (GPHS) on Saturday 20 June 2026 for the YOH Poetry Reading, where young poets from the school […]
Alfred T.M. Rossouw, participant in the 2023 Kommadagga short fiction workshop and 2024 Bosberg Book Writing residency, was recently featured in EFIKO, an online literary magazine with a focus on […]
This article was originally published on the website of The Norwegian Association of Children and Young People’s Book Authors (NBU) here. This spring, Xueting Yang travelled to South Africa as […]
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation would like to congratulate Nadia Cassim on being longlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Awards. Nadia worked on her debut novel, Not Another Samoosa Run!, which […]
Vanjaar se Jakes Gerwel-gespreksreeks tydens die Suidoosterfees het ons weereens die geleentheid gegee om met vele skrywers wat by Paulet Huis in KwaNojoli, Oos-Kaap, aan hul boeke gewerk het, te […]
“Wildflower” by Skylark is playing on Lunga Singama’s program on HEART FM: She’s faced the hardest times, you could imagineAnd many times her eyes fought back the tears It’s Mother’s […]
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation, in collaboration with the Jannie Mouton Foundation’s Oude Leeskamer, provides debut writers the opportunity for further mentorship and to write their second books while staying right […]
Athambile Masola’s celebrated debut poetry collection, Ilifa, has been translated into English by the poet from isiXhosa. The translation titled, Inheritance, is set to be published by Batis Books in […]