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The Nerd Culture Writing Contest
The Nerd Culture is proud to present our 1st annual writing contest! Writers all over the world are having more and more trouble finding work and compensation for their creative genius. If you are among this group, then you have found somewhere to help jumpstart your career and maybe make you a little money on [...]
Commonwealth Book and Short Story Prize
Commonwealth Writers final call for entries: Last few weeks remaining to enter the new Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prizes are part of a new initiative, Commonwealth Writers, an online hub to inspire, inform and create a community of writers from all over the world. Together with the prizes, Commonwealth Writers [...]
Recent Events Posts
The 2012 NGC Bocas Lit Fest-26 to 29 April 2012, Trinidad and Tobago
The 2012 NGC Bocas Lit Fest programme overflows with readings, discussions, performances, workshops, and more — over eighty events in all. Highlights include: • The announcement of the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, a major regional award recognising Caribbean writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. • The announcement of a new annual award [...]
The Melville Poetry Festival
When: Friday October 14th and Saturday October 15th 2011 The first Melville Poetry Festival Showcase is happening this Friday and Saturday, with an exciting line up of poets writing in all languages set to read and perform their work. Over 30 poets will be gathering for the festival, with readings, panel discussions, exhibitions, book launches [...]
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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
Writers and Public Libraries
It seems to be a well kept secret that during Pallo Jordan’s tenure as minister of Arts and Culture, the national network of public libraries was allocated over R1 billion for book acquisitions and for the building of new libraries. I say it is a secret because, though this budget allocation is advertised in a [...]
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.
Latest Poetry Posts
Conform You Say?
I sit and I wonder, what will this be? I’m lost and confused and unable to see… “Live,” she says, “Live – give into your desire.” Perhaps she thinks she is beyond the words of the squire. She tells us to “be ourselves, don’t worry what they say, one day you will see, you will [...]
Come Home
Drowning in the four oceans of misery, Pain, disappointment, guilt and heartache I’ve brought this on myself and I’m ashamed I’ve sinned against God and Mankind How do I put together what I’ve broken? I’ve poured out my heart with every word spoken. I prayed for forgiveness and begged for help My heart is aching [...]
Latest Short Story Posts
A Tough Pill to Swallow
It felt like I was a ghost, floating through the gathered people: friends, family, colleagues, well-wishers … they all had a similar response to seeing me. Women would give me a sympathetic look and then divert their eyes. Men would pat me on the back and squeeze my shoulder reassuringly. Others would mutter a few [...]
A conversation with a stranger
Me: The world is such a small place. How did I come to be here at this diner at the exact same moment you have? There is no one for miles around us! The stranger: Mere coincidence I believe? Me: Yes, I guess so. But is it not strange that we came here with the [...]
Latest Flash Fiction Posts
Introduction to Flash Fiction
Flash fiction is an extremely concise work of fiction. While there is no widely accepted norm in terms of its length, some self-described markets for this category impose lower limits as low as 300 words. Others consider stories as long as 1,000 words to be a more appropriate length for this genre of writing.
