Please join us between 14 and 16 March 2025 for Books on the Bay, a wonderful celebration of local literature and inspiration, now in its third year.
Karavan Press authors participating:
Saturday, 15 March 2025
10:15-11:00 METHODIST CHURCH
In the famous words of Lorrie Moore, “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage.” Award-winning short story exponents Dawn Garisch and Diane Awerbuck discuss with Bongani Kona the joys and challenges of their relationship with the alluring genre.
13:15-14:15 METHODIST CHURCH
The art of memoir: Anthony Akerman, Lucky Bastard; Thobeka Yose, In Silence My Heart Speaks; Julia Martin, The Blackridge House. Led by Jo-Anne Richards, three leading exponents reflect on life-writing and the life-changing process of memoir writing.
Sunday, 16 March 2025
9:00-10:00 TOWN HALL
Karen Jennings – Crooked Seeds, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
11:30-12:30 TOWN HALL
Andrew Brown – The Bitterness of Olives: In this remarkable novel set in Gaza City, Andrew Brown – current Sunday Times Fiction Award holder – explores a complex friendship battered by political forces. In conversation with Michele Magwood.
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