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Call For Writers Deadline June 30, 2013 – Mother Earth International Literature Competition
$50 cash prize for gold winner. 3 prizes of publication in ArtAscent Art and Literature Journal including links to your website, promotion on ArtAscent website writer directory, and exposure in social media. The competition theme is Mother Earth. The concept evokes visions of environmentalism, spirituality, wellness, cultural unity and responsibility. Who is Mother Earth to [...]
ROYAL COURT – Call for playwrights – Zimbabwe
The Royal Court runs long-term play development projects in many different countries, helping to stimulate new writing and bringing many of these writers and plays to London for further work and sometimes productions. At any one time, the International Department will be working with dozens of playwrights through specific projects. Long-term play development relationships now [...]
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ROYAL COURT – Call for playwrights – Zimbabwe
The Royal Court runs long-term play development projects in many different countries, helping to stimulate new writing and bringing many of these writers and plays to London for further work and sometimes productions. At any one time, the International Department will be working with dozens of playwrights through specific projects. Long-term play development relationships now [...]
Bocas Lit Fest- 25 to 28 April 2013, Port of Spain, Trinidad
This year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest promises to be chock-full of activities and events, a true whirlwind book lover’s paradise of people to meet and any number of happenings to attend. If you haven’t yet, do stop by our official programme page, www.bocaslitfest.com where you can find an overview of highlights, as well as a [...]
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What is it that you see and feel when you see these lamps? Are you indifferent to them? Or do they inspire you?
Pamela Nichols
Dog Walk Diaries
I’m sick of my own opinions so let me tell you about the best part of my day, which is taking Sprite to the park. We can’t do this at the moment because the car is at the panel beaters, so let’s have an imaginary dog walk. Into the car, tail wagging. Sprite’s barks grow [...]
Mbongisi Dyantyi
what liver
So, I am is’febe. At least I have been called that. Once, dear reader, when we were much younger, a cousin of mine used that word: is’febe. Part of what it is to be as young as we were is learning to use language. Many times you get the structure right only to stumble over [...]
Lerato Seohatse
Nationalisation talk – a big question mark
How many chances does a party need to prove itself? In the face of dissatisfaction, much unhappiness and agitation on the part of the masses expressed in service delivery protests and the inroads made by the main opposition party in black communities, the ANC in the form of the ANCYL is stepping up its rhetoric [...]
Allan Kolski Horwitz
ROYAL COURT – Call for playwrights – Zimbabwe
The Royal Court runs long-term play development projects in many different countries, helping to stimulate new writing and bringing many of these writers and plays to London for further work and sometimes productions. At any one time, the International Department will be working with dozens of playwrights through specific projects. Long-term play development relationships now [...]
Amitabh Mitra
Poetry And Medicine
Medicine, Art and Poetry have coexisted since the time of Hippocrates and the History of Medicine is abundantly endowed with examples of Art, Literature and Poetry. This exhibition in Warwick, UK captures some of the highlights.
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ROYAL COURT – Call for playwrights – Zimbabwe
The Royal Court runs long-term play development projects in many different countries, helping to stimulate new writing and bringing many of these writers and plays to London for further work and sometimes productions. At any one time, the International Department will be working with dozens of playwrights through specific projects. Long-term play development relationships now [...]
A writer’s process – third session
Everyone is requested to think about their writing process. How would you define that process? When you say that you are waiting for a ‘spark’ to ignite the creative juices, do you know what that spark is? How it looks like? Feel like? Taste like? What are you waiting to understand before you can unleash [...]
Latest Poetry Posts
End of the tunnel
There’s a light coming, It edges a moment at a time It says “hold on, draw close, step forward” It was there in the distance, Too faint to trust Never stoked by shut eyes It flickered, whispered, and dimmed. It grew. Spurned on by other wide eyes, cheering for attention. It started to call softly [...]
Ode to myself
No words will ever describe, Your beautiful description. Your image pierces an unexpected distraction. My God, you are beautiful! How are you able to deny that?! Muhle intombazane, Aḻakāṉa Golden glow, more than a suns kiss Soft smooth stretched bronze Scents of cocoa, sweetness and spices Decorated with strips and stripes Cautious to a hands [...]
Latest Short Story Posts
The Last Romantic
Our second date, was there a diminutive feasibility that today would be as enchanting and delightful as that magical day before? But there was nothing in the laws of physics that denied me repeated marvelty, for I have always believed the same laws which keep the planets in their orb are not dissimilar to those [...]
Time in space
The time of mother The time of a baby The time of my time. The time of my birth, my death. The time I cant see The time I cant touch The time I can only measure The time I dont know. the time that passes the time that arrives the time thats never there [...]
Latest Flash Fiction Posts
Sons of the invisible
“He is safe with us…” She stood there, anchored to earth by two concrete pillars of skin and blood. This hollow assurance meant nothing. “Please, do like all the others have and just leave.” It took her decision mere seconds to become fully fledged, stripped of all doubt. “Give my boy back to me, right [...]
The Whisperer
She had an affinity for the pronunciation of names. No matter the language or dialect, her tongue snapped around its intricacies and held fast, until names blossomed from her lips like butterflies escaping their cocoons. There was the croak of a sleepy frog in her susurrant “Mbembe”, the crack of a breaking bough in “Cormac”. [...]
