I'm thrilled to announce that next year I'll be running a 'Start Your Book' course online and in person in Cape Town. Spots are limited to 10 people per group! Who is this course for? This course is for you if: You have an idea for a book-length project You are willing to commit to… Continue reading Start Your Novel in 2027
Category: Writing Projects
Treat yourself to creative writing workshops with me in 2026
It has been a long year. I know I'm not alone in this sentiment. The world has gone even more bananas than it went last year, things are more expensive, and it feels like AI is about to eat up creativity and shit out monoculture bland art and writing. In Timothy Snyder's great book, On… Continue reading Treat yourself to creative writing workshops with me in 2026
Three October creative writing workshops
Happily, I’ll be hosting three writing workshops this coming month. I'd love to have you there 1 October - Free Workshop at Rondebosch Public Library My family and I visit the library pretty much every week and we spend hours there browsing, and listening to stories read by the fantastic children’s librarians. So I am… Continue reading Three October creative writing workshops
NaNoWriMo 2023
As a challenge to myself, I have signed up to participate in this year's National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo). Follow along with me.
South African women’s novels you should read
A few years ago I'd hoped to undertake a PhD where I wanted to read ALL the novels written by South African women in English published between 1994 and 2019. I'm rejuvenating this project
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative – My January 2021 Blog Takeover
Last year in the doldrums of 2020 employment opportunities I received an email that really excited me from Karen Van Drie. Karen is an American librarian working in Istanbul, Turkey and is as Executive Director of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative -- a collection of publishers, translators, librarians and authors working to get more of… Continue reading The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative – My January 2021 Blog Takeover
