Tag: Sibongile Fisher

  • Brittle Paper Awards 2018 winners announced.

    Brittle Paper Awards 2018 winners announced.

    The Brittle Paper Awards 2018 winners were announced on November 19, 2018. They are Sibongile Fisher, Itiola Jones, Stacy Hardy, Panashe Chigumadzi, and Shailja Patel. Brittlepaper.com is one of the most influential spaces in the African literary scene today. The blog which started publishing on August 1, 2010 delivers interviews, essays, fiction and poetry from…

  • Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up unveiled.

    Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up unveiled.

    The Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up was announced on the event’s social media platforms on October 23, 2018. The festival now in its third year is set for Soweto, South Africa from December 6-9, 2018. The Abantu Book Festival was founded in 2016 to build a space for black South African readers and…

  • African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Awards 2018 shortlists announced

    African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Awards 2018 shortlists announced

    The Nommo Awards 2018 shortlists for the best novel, novella, short story and graphic novel by an African this year have been announced. The Nommo Awards are an initiative of the African Speculative fiction Society. The Nommo Awards were introduced by the African Speculative Fiction Society to cast a much needed focus on the writing…

  • The Time of the Writer 2017 opening ceremony

    The Time of the Writer 2017 opening ceremony

    The 20th Time of the Writer International Festival took place in Durban, South Africa from 13 – 18 March 2017. The Festival theme was “The Past Paving the Future.” The festival begun on Monday March 13th with an opening ceremony at the Sneddon Theatre as has become tradition with Siphindile Hlongwa as emcee. There were…

  • Video from Time of the Writer 2017 #TOTW2017

    Video from Time of the Writer 2017 #TOTW2017

    The 20th Time of the Writer International Festival set took place in Durban, South Africa from 13 – 18 March 2017. The Festival theme was “The Past Paving the Future.” This event like in the decades before promised much and delivered on it. Some of the many African writers who featured at this festival were…

  • 20th Time of the Writer International Festival set for Durban, South Africa

    20th Time of the Writer International Festival set for Durban, South Africa

    The 20th Time of the Writer International Festival set to take place in Durban, South Africa from 13 – 18 March 2017. The Festival theme is “The Past Paving the Future.” The Festival, hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) within UKZN’s College of Humanities, will feature some of the South Africa’s most prolific…

  • Sibongile Fisher wins Short Story Day Africa Prize 2016

    Sibongile Fisher wins Short Story Day Africa Prize 2016

    Sibongile Fisher is the winner of the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction for her story A Door Ajar. TJ Benson was first runners up followed by Megan Ross in third. The Prize is worth R10 000 to the winner with second and third place cash prizes of R2 000 and R1…