#WriteTips: Three Writers, Three Perspectives.
Earlier in the year we were lucky enough to interview Yewande Omotoso, Mahtem Shiferraw and Edyth Bulbring - three writers who are equally talented but have quite different styles. They gave some…
#WriteTips: The 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize Winners.
Cat Hellisen - Don't be afraid to push yourself beyond your comfort zone when it comes to writing.- Write for yourself; edit for your readers.- Work the way that works for…
Announcing the SSDA / Worldreader Editing Mentorship Programme
There is no shortage of people to teach you how to write, who want to teach you how to write - a WikiHow article, your primary school teacher, a dying…
#WriteTips From The 2016 Judges.
Sindiwe Magona - Read! Read! Read! This is the writer’s greatest teacher- Writing is work. Work at it – practice makes perfect- When you have written ‘The End’ – put…
‘I encourage a reader to imagine/interpret characters in their own way…’ An Interview with Nikhil Singh.
There's no-one else like Nikhil Singh and their intricate illustrated dark visions of the future. Their individuality stains their work in an eerie and pervasive manner making for an incredible multi-layered…
‘You get to write things the way they should be, not as they are.’ An Interview with Frank Owen.
In a couple of moments, you'll be on to us. We asked both the authors that make up Frank Owen the same questions, to get a Human League, he-said, she-said…
‘…America almost feels to me like a genre in itself.’ An Interview with Frank Owen.
Rivalry is rife in writing. Famous battles have included Ernest Hemingway vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez vs. Mario Vargas Llosa and Charlotte Brontë vs. Jane Austen. So were interested to find…
‘…You write from the heart and not from the head.’ An Interview with Rehana Rossouw.
What Will People Say? follows the Fourie family trying to carve out a "decent" life in the Cape Flats. One of the most sobering aspects of this novel is the…
‘I think it’s hard for South African fiction writers to swagger’. An interview with Edyth Bulbring.
South African writer Edyth Bulbring has published eight Young Adult novels. Her latest, Snitch, is due out later this month. She spoke to us about connecting with young readers and…