Monthly Archives: October 2024

Life Righting Collective Workshop: Dos and Don’ts of Self-Publishing

The Life Righting Collective is running a series of workshops to raise funds and to offer writers new platforms to thrive. Please join me for the first workshop in the series:

Dos and Don’ts of Self-Publishing

Saturday, 26 October 2024, 10AM-1PM

… discussing the daunting journey from manuscript to self-published book that will look and feel like a professionally published title.

“The Writer’s Way is a brand new writing series of exciting workshops and talks designed to offer aspiring and experienced writers from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to enhance their skills. The online and in-person workshops will feature diverse guest facilitators—accomplished writers and industry professionals—covering fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, editing and more.”

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Life Righting Collective

Slices of Heaven: Open Book Festival 2024

“Words don’t help with grief, but presence does,” said Alex Latimer, author of the short story “Death and rooibos”, included in his collection Love stories for ghosts. In the story, Death takes a young boy’s mother away and remains behind in the child’s life well into his adulthood – a strange, friendly, comforting presence having a cup of rooibos whenever he visits. Alex was one of the well over 100 authors speaking at this year’s Open Book Festival, which took place last weekend between 6 and 8 September at the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. The session he was part of, “Love and other toxins”, also featured Shubnum Khan and Sven Axelrad, and was expertly chaired by Dela Gwala. I have loved all three of these authors for a long time, but collectively they stole my heart during that afternoon …

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