Paulet Huis se deure staan weer wawyd oop vir skrywers

Paulet Huis se deure staan weer wawyd oop vir skrywers! Ons het die afgelope week die eerste skrywersgrope vir 2023 op ‘n koue en nat Somerset-Oos verwelkom. Bonisani Sibeko, Reginald Hufkie, Faeed Amardien en Nadia Cassim is vanjaar deel van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en NB-Uitgewers se mentorskapsprogram onder leiding van Angela Briggs en Suzette Myburgh.

Thank you to Bruce Jack Wines for most definitely contributing to a lovely weekend and chats around the dinner table. Email Theo Kemp at theo@jgf.org.za for more information about our projects, or visit www.jgf.org.za

Foto’s: Theo Kemp.

About the Jakes Gerwel Foundation / NB Publishers mentorship programme for the upcoming writers of fiction and non-fiction.

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation / NB Publishers are proud to announce the emerging writers of fiction and non-fiction selected to be part of JGF /NB’s successful mentorship programme 2023. They are Bonisani Sibeko, Nadia Cassim, Faeed Amardien and Reginald Hufkie. They will be mentored by seasoned mentor/editors Angela Briggs for the English writers and Suzette Myburgh for the Afrikaans writers. They’re the lucky ones who will travel and be welcomed to the ever-lovely and inspiring Paulet House in Somerset East four times in 2023 – at the end of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. They will work on refining their manuscripts under the guidance of their mentors. Their completed manuscripts will be handed back to NB at the end of the year where it will be considered for publication.

Angela’s mentees 2023

Bonisani Sibeko was born in South Africa, but grew up in the United Kingdom where his grandfather was living in exile. Bonisani was recruited into the South African State Security Agency where he learned, as an operational scribe for ministers and even the president himself, how important it is to write concisely and engagingly about factual matters. While his current day job is in property management, Bonisani is also a musician, traditional healer and writer. Having assumed the pen name King Afrika Sibeko, he is looking forward to focus increasingly on his calling to write Afrocentric sci-fi and fantasy novels.

Nadia Cassim obtained an honours degree from the School of Architecture and Planning at University of the Witwatersrand in 2008, but chose to pursue a career in fine arts instead. One of her short stories has been included in the anthology Riding the Samoosa Express (published by Modjaji Books) and she has edited the online magazine Irtiqa of which she was also the founder. After running this magazine with its aim to empower Muslim women in her community for eight years, she has taken a step back to focus on writing her first novel.

Suzette’s mentees 2023

Faeed Amardien woon al lank in Parkwood op die Kaapse Vlakte. Hy het sy baccalaureus-graad in onderwys (B.Ed.) by die Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) in 2020 voltooi met Afrikaans en Rekeningkunde as hoofvakke. Hy is tans besig met sy honneurs in onderwys met taal- en letterkunde as spesialisasierigting aan die UWK. As jong onderwyser by Hoërskool Plumstead, raak die narratiewe van sy leerders wat uit diverse agtergronde en kulture kom hom baie. Sy benadering tot onderwys is kreatief en sluit ook die gebruik van Kaaps in om sy leerders die wonder van taal te laat ervaar. Daarom wil hy hom ook graag in sy eie skryfwerk toespits op jongmense as teikengroep en werk hy aan ʼn jeugroman.

Reginald Hufkie, oftewel Reggie Peace, is ʼn veelsydige Suid-Afrikaanse akteur, sanger, kletsrymer, skrywer en spreker. Ten spyte daarvan dat hy grootgeword het in die minderbevoorregte gemeenskap van Schauderville in Port Elizabeth en die feit dat hy wees gelaat is op 13, het sy deursettingsvermoë en lewenslus gemaak dat hy van krag tot krag gaan. Gedurende sy studies in vervoerbestuur by die Universiteit van Johannesburg, het hy betrokke geraak by die universiteit se teaterproduksies onder leiding van Alby Michaels en Motladji Ditodi. In 2014 het hy sy televisie-debuut gemaak in Single Galz, waarna hy bekend geword het deur ander televisierolle in, byvoorbeeld, 7de Laan, High Rollers, Generations – The Legacy, Swartwater, Die Spreeus, Desert Rose en Poena. Hy het ook in 2018 sy internasionale debuut gemaak in die Deense dramareeks Liberty. Reginald het verskyn in films soos Cowboy Dan (2018) en Nefarious Creatures (2022) terwyl hy in Vlamme (2022) die dubbele rol van skrywer-akteur opgeneem het. In 2021, het hy sy eerste album met die titel Nuwe Lewe/New Life uitgebring. Reginald geniet dit om sportstories en musiek te skryf, maar sien nou uit daarna om sy eerste boek te skryf.