Create your life
Thanks to the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation for the lovely news that my manuscript The Hum of the Sun was awarded first place in the Best Unpublished Manuscript category of the Foundation’s inaugural Adventure Writing Awards. Click on the image from the Foundation’s website to see the winners in all three categories.
photo courtesy B. Coppin
Sanbonani nonke. Good evening everyone. Language is everything. What we say. How we say it. What we don’t say. What we understand. It is a great honour to be here for this week amongst these esteemed writers from South Africa and Africa. Great thanks to Tiny Mungwe, and much gratitude to the Centre for Creative Arts.
Trying to write, the act of writing, and then the process of getting published is much like shooting basketball hoops with a blindfold wrapped around your face. You know the general direction of the wire hoop, and the best you can do is face that way. Otherwise, you have no idea if the ball will miss the hoop completely, if it will teeter around the wire edge endlessly and eventually just miss the mark, or if it will fall perfectly in place, and you can convince yourself for a short period of time that it was always meant to be. Despite the lack of guarantees, and often missing the mark, writing is the thing that I do for my life.
Panel Discussion with fellow author ZP Dala, facilitated by Alan Muller
(photo courtesy B. Coppin)
Time of the Writer 2015
Sneddon Theatre, UKZN
16-21 March
‘Female Narratives’ with fellow writer ZP Dala, facilitated by Alan Muller – 17 March 2015
In conversation with Professor Pieter Scholtz at St Clements, Musgrave Road.
Thanks to Pieter and Peter Adams of Adams Musgrave bookstore;
a great evening of discussion about books and the creative process.
