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Home Away Preview: Fairbanks, Alaska: “Anxious in Alaska” by Helen Moffett
Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – launched last week in Cape Town. Watch out for the first pages...
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Home Away Preview: Royaumont, Paris: “Royaumont Hash Up” by Rustum Kozain
Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – launched last week in Cape Town. Watch out for the first pages...
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Home Away Preview: Hong Kong: “Happy Endings” by Victoria Burrows
Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – launched recently in Cape Town. This is the final excerpt: it’s...
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A Second Excerpt from Moky Makura’s Home Away Story
The Mail & Guardian published a longer excerpt of Moky Makura’s Home Away story than the one that you’ll find in the Scribd embed below. It’s situated in Nigeria and called “The Generator Man”....
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Book Launch (Johannesburg): Home Away edited by Louis Greenberg
Zebra Press is delighted to invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Home Away, the collection of contemporary South African writing edited by Louis Greenberg that takes readers around the world in...
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Janet van Eeden Interviews Louis Greenberg on Home Away
…and Louis Greenberg, in turn, supplies the thoughts of several of Home Away‘s contributors on their stories, in this key posting at LitNet: Louis, you’ve edited this volume and also have a short story...
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“At Home in China”: A Wordsetc Travel Piece by Karina Magdalena Szczurek
Karina Magdalena Szczurek contributed to Louis Greenberg‘s collection of short stories, Home Away in which 24 writers write 24 stories set in 24 different cities around the world – a chapter for each...
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Enter the James Patterson Short Story Competition for Children Aged 9 to 12
Random House Struik is running a James Patterson Short Story Competition for children between the ages of 9 and 12. The winner will receive R5000 and R10 000 worth of books for their school library,...
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Winners of Random House Struik and James Patterson Short Story Competition...
Random House Struik recently held a short story competition inviting young readers to write short fictional stories with the chance to win a cash prize of R5 000 as well as books for their school...
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Join Max du Preez for the Launch of A Rumour of Spring at The Book Lounge
The Book Lounge and Zebra Press invite you to the launch of A Rumour of Spring: South Africa after 20 years of Democracy. On Tuesday 26 November, Mervyn Sloman will be in conversation with Du Preez...
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"Mountain Landscape" by Ivan Vladislavic Adds to Debate: Is Pierneef's Work...
A short story by Ivan Vladislavić – published in his latest anthology, 101 Detectives – has found itself included in a larger debate about the stigma attached to, or increasingly detached from,...
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SJ Naudé Contemplates His "Imploded Novel" The Alphabet of Birds (Plus: New...
SJ Naudé’s collection of short stories The Alphabet of Birds has been published in the UK by independent publishing house And Other Stories. The Alphabet of Birds was first published in Afrikaans in...
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Ivan Vladislavic on Winning the Windham Campbell Prize, Literary Festivals...
Earlier this year Ivan Vladislavić, Teju Cole and Helon Habila received the 2015 Windham Campbell Prizes for Fiction. Karina Szczurek did an interview with the 101 Detectives author about his work and...
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Flashback Friday: Ivan Vladislavic Shares His List of Essential Reading
This Flashback Friday, read Jan Steyn’s interview with Ivan Vladislavić, which ran in The White Review in 2012. In the interview, Vladislavić discusses the visual art associated with his books, his...
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Archipelago Books to Host Readings and Conversations with Ivan Vladislavic in...
Archipelago Books will be hosting Ivan Vladislavić in New York and Massachusetts during the month of October. Vladislavić will be reading from his latest US release – The Folly – at four seperate...
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Spanish Translation of Henrietta Rose-Innes' Nineveh to be Launched in Mexico...
Henrietta Rose-Innes has announced that her novel Nineveh will soon be launched in Mexico. The Spanish translation of Nineveh will be published by Mexican publisher Almadia and Rose-Innes will be at...
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Ivan Vladislavic's First and Latest Books, The Folly and 101 Detectives, Hit...
Tobias Carroll has written a piece for Electric Literature on Ivan Vladislavić’s The Folly and 101 Detectives, which are new to American shores. The Folly was Vladislavić’s first novel, first published...
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Ivan Vladislavic Ponders Air Travel, Sherwood Anderson and Death by Unusual...
Ivan Vladislavić has written a quirky but thoughtful piece for Literary Hub on an article he once read in an in-flight magazine. Vladislavić was on his way to Stellenbosch University to take part in a...
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Londoners: Join SJ Naude, John Boyne and Kirsty Logan for a Short Story Salon...
SJ Naudé, author of the award-winning collection of short stories The Alphabet of Birds, will be joining Ireland’s John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Kirsty Logan, author of...
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I Will Probably Wrestle with the Notion of Being an African for the Rest of...
Ivan Vladislavić recently travelled to the US to launch the North American edition of The Folly and celebrate his 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction during the Windham Campbell Prize Festival...
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