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Karavan Press at Books on the Bay 2025

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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Flash workshops with Kerry Hammerton

Kerry Hammerton, editor of In Other Stories, will be running a few flash workshops this year. Participating authors will have an opportunity to submit their work to her second anthology of flashes.

The first of these takes place on Saturday, 1 February 2025, at the Cape Flats Book Festival and is FREE!

A wonderful opportunity to engage with the form and to attend a great book festival taking place at the same time! The anthology Kerry is compiling will be published by Karavan Press.

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Cape Flats Book Festival 2025

The first book festival of 2025 is just around the corner – Cape Flats Book Festival – and we are delighted to announce the following events featuring Karavan Press authors:

SATURDAY, 1 February, 10:45-11:25 | IN OTHER STORIES

SATURDAY, 1 February, 11:40-12:20 | STORYTELLING FOR CHILDREN

SATURDAY, 1 February, 12:35-13:15 | COURAGEOUS SURVIVORS: OVERCOMING A TRAUMATIC PAST

SATURDAY, 1 February, 15:20-16:00 | TRIBUTE TO POET IN EXILE: ATHOL WILLIAMS

Lester Walbrugh will also be at the Festival, speaking about the book he co-wrote with Karin Kortje – not to be missed!

SUNDAY, 2 February, 12:45-13:25 | DIE HELE STORIE / THE WHOLE STORY

For details about other events, please see:

Cape Flats Book Festival

Please join us for these two days of literary wonder!

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Karavan Press at Madibaland @ BookBedonnerd Literary Festival, Richmond Book Town

The Karavan is hitting the road and celebrating all things literary in the wonderful Book Town of Richmond at the end of October/beginning of November. It is time for Madibaland @ BookBedonnerd Literary Festival again and we hope to see many of your there.

Karavan Press titles on the programme:

THURSDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2024

08h00 – 08h55COFFEE & WRITING WORKSHOP WITH KARINA M. SZCZUREK
12h10 – 12h35Michael Boyd, The Weight of Shade
12h35 – 13h00Thobeka Yose, In Silence my Heart Speaks

FRIDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2024

08h00 – 08h55COFFEE & WRITING WORKSHOP WITH KARINA M. SZCZUREK

SATURDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2024

14h00 – 14h30C. J. Driver, Dayspring
14h30 – 15h00Gail Gilbride, Cat Therapy

To see the exciting list of all participants, click here: Authors

For the full programme, click here: BookBedonnerd Literary Festival

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Festival of Poetry 2024

The first Festival of Poetry at Bertha House last year was such a success that many had hoped it would become an annual event. No one can predict the distant future, but we are happy to share the news that the second Festival of Poetry will be taking place at two locations and over two separate days this year:

19 October 2024 – FISH HOEK LIBRARY

9 November 2024 – BERTHA HOUSE

On 19 October 2024, please join us for the following events at the Fish Hoek Library:

Participating poets:

See you there!

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Karavan Press at the Woordfees

Anna Stroud, Nick Clelland and Beatrice Willoughby will be participating in this year’s Woordfees:

TUESDAY, 1 October, 11:30, SU Museum Annex

A Tale of Two Cities

The Johannesburg writer Anna Stroud’s first novel, Who Looks Inside, is about family trauma and small town secrets, and stretches from South Korea to the Karoo, and finally comes to an end in Johannesburg. Nick Clelland’s novel Good Hope is set in a dystopian future where the Western Cape is an independent country. Those in power will sweep anything under the rug to maintain the illusion of a well-functioning state and booming economy. Publisher Jaco Adriaanse facilitates this meeting of North and South.

SATURDAY, 5 October, 18:00, EasyEquities Book Tent

Met ’n bietjie hulp van my vriende

Poets often feel obliged to write about love, but perhaps it is time to wax lyrical about the often more reliable and long-lasting love between friends instead. Invited poets bring two verses each about friendship. Is friendship indeed one soul in two bodies, or simply the one soul that will be there when your world falls apart? Bring your best friend and discover fresh insights into what makes your bond so special.

With Loftus Marais, Jolyn Phillips, André le Roux, Jaco Barnard-Naudé, Lynthia Julius, Danie Marais and Beatrice Willoughby.

Full programme: WOORDFEES 2024