Cultural identity trapped between colonial margins

Freedom, to me, means a number of things, but I will particularly focus on one, language, which I regard as ‘cultural identity’. The right to cultural identity. As long as the highest law of the country does not correspond with...

Toni Stuart’s The Silence that Words Come From

The Silence That Words Come From writing workshop series returns for 2014. The series will allow participants to explore and play with voice and its expression. Participants use writing and other creative exercises, to stir and call forth the words...

Poetry Africa announces Pre-Festival Workshops with Poppy Seed

The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), with principal funding from the City of Durban, the Department of Arts and Culture, and the French Institute, calls out to the aspiring poets to take part in the festival Pre-festival Workshops...

Write On! writing workshops

Do you dream of writing but can't seem to find the time or motivation? Have you tried writing but you can't find the words or you don't know where to start? Have you been secretly writing for years but have not...

so you have a writer’s block, huh?

So, sometimes it's hard to writer. Some say it exists, others say it doesn't. It's called a writer's block. It takes over you at the most inconvenient of times. Has you not knowing how to write. How to distil that...