Masterclasses

Ellah Wakatama OBE will conduct a bespoke two-hour workshop focusing on how to edit your own work; presenting writers with the tools they need to read their own work critically and to develop their craft.

Yaaay! You had an idea. Your manuscript is almost done (even if only in your head). You know it’s the next best thing after ugali and nyama choma…

Dr. Portia Malatjie is a curator and Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art.

Dr. Nick Makoha offers a two-hour creative writing poetry session exploring how Black artists and writers engage visual art as a site of memory, resistance, and imaginative renewal.

Children are storytelling creatures. They enter the world with an instinctive ability to acquire and use language to weave imagination, experience, and meaning into narrative.

Award-winning Chilean writer and scholar, Lina Meruane shall engage with emerging writers in a two-hour roundtable discussion.