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15 December 2025: Karavan Press in 2025

5-7 September 2025: Open Book Festival 2025

4 September 2025: The Book Revue with Andrew Robert Wilson

3 September 2025: The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Reading with Sue Woodward and Kerry Hammerton – 3 September 2025

1 September 2025: Scenes from the Prince Albert Leesfees 2025

29-31 August 2025: Prince Albert Leesfees

28 August 2025: Andile Cele: Storytelling as a healing pathway – Discussing Braids & Migraines

26 August 2025: UJ Prize shortlist announced: Anna Stroud’s Who Looks Inside nominated for the Debut Prize

20 August 2025: The Book Revue with Frankie Murrey

21 August 2025: Love Letter’s winning essay by Shari Daya

19 August 2025: CANEX Prize for Publishing shortlist announced!

16 August 2025: Woman Zone Book Swap

9 & 16 August 2025: WRITING SHORT with Kerry Hammerton and the Life Righting Collective

13 August 2025: JRB – Jennifer Malec interview Karen Jennings about Crooked Seeds

12 August 2025: The Book Lounge launch of A Collection of Gaps by Frankie Murrey

7 August 2025: The Bitterness of Olives shortlisted for the SA Book Awards Fiction Prize

5 August 2025: Salon Hecate at Noordhoek Art Point

3 August 2025: Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists announced

31 July 2025: PEN SA: WRITING IN TROUBLED TIMES – A Conversation with Athol Williams

31 July 2025: Poetry Evening next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent

24 July 2025: CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa features In Silence My Heart Speaks by Thobeka Yose

24 July 2025: The Place of Poetry: Two Geographers in Conversation – Land | Lines by Shari Daya

5 July 2025: Coffee with Karavan Press – July

2 July 2025: River Fugue by Sarah Frost to be launched at Wordsworth Books Oceans Mall in Durban

25 June 2025: Feminist Readers Book Club: The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

21 June 2025: Griefseed by Malika Lueen Ndlovu to be launched in Durban

21 June 2025: EB Constantia – Meet & Greet with Joëlle Searle

21 June 2025: Woman Zone Book Club with Andile Cele

17 June 2025: The Fourth Boy by Andrew Robert Wilson to be launched at Love Books

16 June 2025: The Local Lit Scene Podcast: Interview with Karina M. Szczurek

6-16 June 2025: Karavan Press at FynArts: Book Talks

9 June 2025: Workshop: The Art of Brevity with Kerry Hammerton at FynArts

4 June 2025: Megan Hall and Shari Daya reading at The Commons

3 June 2025: Reading Matters: Sue Grant-Marshall interviews Andrew Robert Wilson

3 June 2025: Stefaans Coetzee interviews Karina M. Szczurek for LitNet

2-7 June 2025: Open Book Workshop Week and Karavan Press

29 May 2025: Wits Creative Writing Presents: Writing Lives II – Place and Its Shadow

27 May 2025: Tears Before Bedtime by Diane Awerbuck to be launched at Salon Hecate, Noordhoek Art Point Gallery

26 May 2025: John Maytham of CapeTalk interviews Warwick Eccles, Development Executive at Mannequin Films, to explore the chilling world of Good Hope, the debut political thriller by Nick Clelland, recently optioned for screen adaptation

26-28 May 2025: Malika Lueen Ndlovu at RISE AFRICA

24 May 2025: KBF 2025

21 May 2025: Malika Lueen Ndlovu at The Commons

20 May 2025: Joint launch: The Fourth Boy and Salt Water Pool Boy at Wordsworth Books Garden Route Mall

19 May 2025: Mannequin Pictures options political thriller Good Hope by Nick Clelland

16-18 May 2025: FLF 2025

14 May 2025: Cape Town launch of Salt Water Pool Boy by Peter-Adrian Altini

29 April 2025: Scenes from the 2025 JLF

28 April 2025: JFL 2025

24 April 2025: Braids & Migraines by Andile Cele to be launched at The Book Lounge

23 April 2025: Of Salt, Dust and Love by Stephen Symons to be launched at Wordsworth Books Gardens

12 April 2025: Karavan Press Literary Festival 2025

11-12 April 2025: Knock Knock by Dawn Garisch at the Masque Theatre

29 March 2025: Chantal Stewart reading at the Dustcovers Bookshop

28 March 2025: Karavan Press at the HSS Awards 2025

23 March 2025: Karen Jennings at Time of the Writer (18-23 March 2025)

18 and 19 March 2025: Library Week with Gail Gilbride, Consuelo Roland, Joëlle Searle and Helen Nevin

18 March 2025: ‘A Parallel Life’ – Avbob Poetry interview with Chantal Stewart

18 March 2025: Consuelo Roland at Rondebosch Library

17 March 2025: ‘Periscope: An overview of the Books on the Bay festival 2025’ by Diane Awerbuck

14-16 March 2025: Karavan Press at Books on the Bay 2025

9 March 2025: Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers

8 March 2025: The Veil of Maya by Chantal Stewart to be launched at the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington

7 March 2025: Love Letter: A refuge for books – Karin Schimke interviews Karina Szczurek

4 March 2025: Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

4 March 2025: SA Library Week at Colin Eglin Sea Point Library with Consuelo Roland

28 February 2025: Story Waves: Tales & Talks from Zeekoevlei with Nancy Richards

27 February 2025: Fractions Of Magic | Interview with Stephen Symons

26 February 2025: “Author Interview: Nick Clelland – Good Hope, Or From Darkness To Dystopia” – Bruce Dennill interviews Nick for Participate

25 February 2025: Exploring the ripple effect: Sarah Isaacs on family trauma and healing in Glass Tower – Daily Maverick interview by Joy Watson

21 February 2025: Calitzdorp launch of The Fourth Boy by Andrew Robert Wilson

20 February 2025: Poetry at the Oude Leeskamer

19 February 2025: Book Lounge launch of Except for Breath by Lucienne Bestall

18 February 2025: Love Books launch of Griefseed by Malika Lueen Ndlovu

15 February 2025: Coffee with Karavan Press

11 February 2025: Exclusive Books Cavendish launch of Griefseed by Malika Lueen Ndlovu

1-2 February 2025: Cape Flats Book Festival

29 January 2025: Celebrating What Remains by Dawn Garisch

17 January 2025: Book Club: Author Karen Jennings on her new book, Crooked Seeds – with CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson

7 December 2024: Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings on The Guardian‘s Best Fiction of 2024 list

5 December 2024: Kalk Bay Books launch of Self-portrait of a Guava by Lucienne Argent

4 December 2024: “Small-town setting, big ideas — the Booktown Richmond festival” by Rebecca Willis

3 December 2024: The Good Cemetery Guide by Consuelo Roland to be launched at EB Cavendish

23 November 2024: Flash workshop with Kerry Hammerton at Bertha House

21 November 2024: Skrywersaand with Diane Awerbuck, Karen Jennings and Alex Latimer

16 November 2024: Join Gail Gilbride for a journalling workshop at EB Cavendish

13 November 2024: Dayspring by C. J. Driver is Lyndall Gordon’s Book of the Year (The New Statesman)

12 November 2024: Dawn Garisch wins the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award for What Remains

11 November 2024: Jacana Masterclass: An Introduction to Writing Short Fiction with Lester Walbrugh

9 November 2024: Festival of Poetry at Bertha House

7 November 2024: Shari Daya reading with UCT Writers Series at The Book Lounge

7 November 2024: Dawn Garisch reading with Words to Live By, PEN SA

1 November 2024: The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown wins the 2024 Sunday Times Fiction Prize

30 October – 2 November: Karavan Press at BookBedonnerd in Richmond

24 October 2024: Author Talk with Gail Gilbride at Meadowridge Library

19 October 2024: Festival of Poetry 2024

10 October 2024: Durban launch of Good Hope by Nick Clleland

1 and 5 October 2024: Karavan Press authors at the Woordfees

26 September 2024: Melissa Sussens reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

23 September 2024: Dawn Garisch reading at Off the Wall

23 September 2024: Author Talks at Tokai Library: Joanne Hichens

21 September 2024: Flash Fiction Workshop with Kerry Hammerton

19 September 2024: Exclusive Books Book Club Morning with Sarah Isaacs & Nicky Greenwall

16 September 2024: Woman Zone Stories – Meet the Author: Shari Daya

15 September 2024: Sunday Times Literary Awards recognise and celebrate both fact and fiction in SA writing – The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

14 September 2024: Shari Daya at Woman Zone Book Club

12 September 2024: In Other Stories launched at EB V&A Waterfront

11 September 2024: Launch of In Other Stories edited by Kerry Hammerton, EB V&A Waterfront

9 September 2024: That’s What She Said, documentary based on Tracy Going’s memoir Brutal Legacy, is nominated for a SAFTA

8 September 2024: The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize

6-8 September 2024: Karavan Press authors and friends at the Open Book Festival

5 September 2024: Sipho Banda reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

4 September 2024: Dot to Dot by Lisa Tredoux to be launched at V&A Exclusive Books

3 September 2024: The Smell of Blood by Caitlin Stobie & Kharys Ateh Laue to be launched at EB Cavendish

2 September 2024: Kerry Hammerton poetry reading at Off the Wall

31 August 2024: Andrew Brown at the Prince Albert Leesfees

30 August 2024: University of the Third Age: ‘Cat Therapy for Humans’ – Gail Gilbride

28 August 2024: Megan Hall and Shari Daya reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

28 August 2024: Land | Lines by Shari Daya launched at EB Cavendish

27 August 2024: Land | Lines by Shari Daya to be launched at EB Cavendish

18 August 2024: In Silence My Heart Speaks by Thobeka Yose launched at Woman Zone

17 August 2024: In Silence My Heart Speaks by Thobeka Yose to be launched during the Artscape Women’s Humanity Festival

15 August 2024: Sarah Frost reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

10 August 2024: Anna Stroud and Art Friends at Book Circle Capital

10 August 2024: Cathy Park Kelly at the Fringe Fireside Chats Books Festival

9 August 2024: Counterfactual Cape Town – Johan Fourie interviews Karen Jennings and Nick Clelland

7 August 2024: Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Prize

7 August 2024: Kerry Hammerton and Athambile Masola reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

6 August 2024: Land | Lines by Shari Daya to be launched at Salon Hecate, Noordhoek Art Point

2 August 2024: ‘Unsettling, eerie, evocative’: UP creative writing student’s first novel published – and readers can’t get enough – interview with Anna Stroud

31 July 2024: The Red Wheelbarrow poetry reading: Stephen Symons and Glen Thompson reading at the Tokai Library

24 July 2024: Jonty Driver memoir published posthumously, Karen Watkins reports on the launch

24 July 2024: Exclusive Books launch of Glass Tower by Sarah Isaacs

19 July 2024: Dayspring by CJ Driver launched at Clarke’s

16 July 2024: Clarke’s Books launch of Dayspring by CJ Driver

20 June 2024: Love Books launch of Bad Luck Penny by Amy Heydenrych

19 June 2024: Love Books launch of Who Looks Inside by Anna Stroud

16 June 2024: The 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists announced

14 June 2024: Richard van Rensburg interviews/reviews Nick Clelland’s Good Hope for Huisgenoot: ‘Good Hope’: ’n Politieke riller wat wys hoe ’n provinsie sou lyk as dit onafhanklik word

11 June 2024: Read an excerpt from Dayspring by C. J. Driver in the JRB

7 June 2024: ‘Ons sorg vir jou in ruil vir jou regte en die doodstraf’ – Murray La Vita interviews Nick Clelland

5 June 2024: Pagecast at Kingsmead Book Fair 2024: Amy Heydenrych

4 June 2024: PULSE: The Difference by Melissa Sussens

4 June 2024: Catching the wave with Byron Loker at Salon Hecate

31 May 2024: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2024: A personal reflection by Karina M. Szczurek

27 May 2024: Love Books launch of Good Hope by Nick Clelland

26 May 2024: Spoilt for choice at the KBF 2024

25 May 2024: Karavan Press at the KBF 2024

18 May 2024: Thobeka Yose interviewed on Weekend Breakfast

17-19 May 2024: Karavan Press at the FLF 2024

15 May 2024: Skrywersaand at the Oude Leeskamer: Fiona Snyckers and Nick Clelland

14 May 2024: Melissa A. Volker reports from Comic Con Cape Town

13 May 2024: John Maytham interviews Nick Clelland about Good Hope on Afternoon Drive, CapeTalk

9 May 2024: Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings launched at The Book Lounge

8 May 2024: The Book Lounge launch of Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

2 May 2024: The UCT Writers Series at The Book Lounge: Frankie Murrey

29 April 2024: The launch of Good Hope by Nick Clelland

20 April 2024: Karavan Stories 2024 Workshop

14 April 2024: Woman Zone Stories Podcast: Meet the Author – Dawn Garisch

13 April 2024: Woman Zone Book Club – Guest Author: Dawn Garisch

11 April 2024: Skrywersaand at the Oude Leeskamer: Jonathan Amid in conversation with Lester Walbrugh and Andrew Brown

11 April 2024: The Algebra of Insignificance by Stephen Symons launched at Wordsworth Books Gardens

10 April 2024: The Algebra of Insignificance by Stephen Symons to be launched at Wordsworth Books Gardens

9 April 2024: Great poetry news!

5 April 2024: Love Stories for Ghosts launched at The Book Lounge

4 April 2024: The Book Lounge launch of Love Stories for Ghosts

23 March 2024: Karavan Press poets at Books on the Bay

23 March 2024: Friends of Tokai Library: Mini Book Fair

20 March 2024: Celebrating South Africa Library Week with Melissa A. Volker at Meadowridge Library!

20 March 2024: Wordsworth Books Franschhoek launch of The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

4 April 2024: Love Stories for Ghosts by Alex Latimer to be launched at The Book Lounge

19 March 2024: Wordsworth Books Gardens launch of The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

15 March 2024: Karavan Press at the HSS Awards 2024

15 March 2024: Short & Sweet, and wonderfully successful – Karavan Press Literary Festival 2024

14-21 March 2024: Karavan Press authors at Time of the Writer

13-20 March 2024: Open Book Youth Fest 2024

12 March 2024: Salon Hecate: ‘Where Are All the Flowers Gone’, with Diane Awerbuck, Joy Watson and Cathy Park Kelly

9 March 2024: Karavan Press Literary Festival 2024

29 February 2024: Submission deadline for FLASH stories

28 February 2024: Submission deadline for Short.Sharp.Stories anthology YOLO

22 February 2024: Beatrice Willoughby reads at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective

21 February 2024: Liam Bishop interviews Dawn Garisch about Breaking Milk for the Rippling Pages

15 February 2024: Almost prescient novel explores the ever-precarious Middle East – Andrew Brown talks about his novel, The Bitterness of Olives

6 February 2024: Penny Haw wins the Philida Literary Award 2024

31 January 2024: Clement Manyathela interviews Andrew Brown on 702

31 December 2023: Karavan Press in 2023

26 December 2023: FMR Book Choice: excerpt from Finuala Dowling’s interview with Beatrice Willoughby at the launch of So, (starts at 50:40)

20 December 2023: The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown features on Daily Maverick‘s “Best books of 2023 — a smorgasbord to tickle every literary tastebud”

19 December 2024: The Book Lounge bestsellers 2023

12 December 2023: Liberty Books launch of The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

6 December 2023: Kalk Bay launch of What Remains by Dawn Garisch

5 December 2023: Dawn Garisch, Diane Awerbuck and Frankie Murrey at Liberty Books

29 November 2023: Inside your body there are flowers by Diane Awerbuck to be launched at The Book Lounge

28 November 2023: FMR Book Choice: Beryl Eichenberger interviews Andrew Brown about The Bitterness of Olives (starts at 45:00)

28 November 2023: People’s Stories and Books: Nancy Richards interviews Andrew Brown about The Bitterness of Olives

21 November 2023: Reading Matters: Sue Grant-Marshall interviews Andrew Brown about The Bitterness of Olives

23 November 2023: The Book Lounge launch of Striving for Social Equity, edited by Joy Watson and Ogochukwu Nzewi

23 November 2023: UCT launch of Glass Tower by Sarah Isaacs

22 November 2023: The Book Lounge launch of So, by Beatrice Willoughby

15 November 2023: LitNet: “An overview of the Cape Flats Book Festival” by Karina M. Szczurek

15 November 2023: “Joined at the Soul: Cape Town’s newest festival lets poets find each other” – Cameron Luke Peters reports on the Festival of Poetry for News24

9 November 2023: Melissa Sussens reading at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective

4-5 November 2023: Cape Flats Book Festival

4 November 2023: Festival of Poetry, Cape Town

29 October 2023: Free Book event at Lumkile’s Book Joint

19 October 2023: The Bitterness of Olives launched at The Book Lounge

18 October 2023: The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown to be launched at The Book Lounge

16 October 2023: Small Souls by Stephen Symons shortlisted for the SALA Poetry Award

16 October 2023: Everyone Dies by Frankie Murrey to be launched at The Book Lounge

11 October 2023: Glass Tower by Sarah Isaacs to be launched at The Book Lounge

2 October 2023: Salon Hecate – Kerry Hammerton will be reading at the Art Point gallery in Noordhoek

18 September 2023: Read two excerpts from Striving for Social Equity in Daily Maverick

12 September 2023: CapeTalk’s John Maytham interviews Andrew Brown about The Bitterness of Olives

8-10 September 2023: Karavan Press and Friends at Open Book Festival 2023

7 September 2023: Nick Mulgrew shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award

1 September 2023: Interview with an Indie Publisher

31 August 2023: Love gone right and wrong at the Tokai Public Library

31 August 2023: Lunchtime Lecture: Panya Routes – From platform to plotform

25 August 2023: “Twenty tales about life’s great challenges” – Dawn Garisch’s What Remains launched at The Book Lounge by Karen Watkins

24 August 2023: LitNet: ‘Still beating, reflecting on heart attacks and writing in the City of Gold’ by Mike Boyd

23 August 2023: REVIEW | All too human: Four new South African novels have much to say about our lives today – Jonathan Amid reviews Tunnel by Nick Mulgrew and The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

17 August 2023: AVBOB Poetry Project interviews Lethokuhle Msimang

17 August 2023: What Remains by Dawn Garisch to be launched at The Book Lounge

16 August 2023: Shift from Storyteller to Story Seller in 3 Steps, with Cathy Park Kelly & Karina M. Szczurek

9-13 August 2023: Lethokuhle Msimang at the Durban International Book Fair

8 August 2023: The Other Me by Joy Watson shortlisted for the UJ Debut Prize

27 July 2023: Lethokuhle Msimang reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

20 July 2023: Pretoria launch of The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang at Alliance Française de Pretoria

16 July 2023: Joy Watson’s The Other Me and Lester Walbrugh’s Elton Baatjies longlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards

13 July 2023: Cape Town launch of The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang at The Book Lounge

2 July 2023: Rosebank Writers: Book talk with Kerry Hammerton

1 July 2023: Book discussion: Kerry Hammerton in conversation with Karina Szczurek (Rosebank Writers event)

23 June 2023: “A haunting, Gothic take” – The Weight of Shade launched at EB Cavendish

22 June 2023: PEN SA’s THE EMPTY CHAIR PODCAST with Manuel Muñoz and Lester Walbrugh

19 June 2023: Héloïse Press acquires Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch

17 June 2023: The Invincible Docs at Blown Away by Books, Fish Hoek Library

16 June 2023: The Weight of Shade launched at EB Cavendish

5-10 June 2023: Open Book Workshop Week

8 June 2023: Book discussion: Intimacy and Injury at Book Circle Capital

7 June 2023: Kerry Hammerton will be reading at The Commons in Muizenberg

5 June 2023: Surf’s up at Salon Hecate in June

4 June 2023: A write-up of Michael Boyd’s launch at St John’s College

31 May 2023: News24: Read the opening of The Weight of Shade by Michael Boyd

27 May 2023: Karavan Press at KBF 2023

26 May 2023: The Weight of Shade by Michael Boyd to be launched at St. John’s College

23-24 May 2023: Celebrating the launch of Nick Mulgrew’s Tunnel

19-21 May 2023: Karavan Press authors at the FLF 2023

11 May 2023: Amazwi launch of afterwards by Kerry Hammerton

10 May 2023: FLUID launch at The Book Lounge

9 May 2023: Gregory Penfold interviews Lester Walbrugh for News24

9 May 2023: The Other Me by Joy Watson available via the Daily Maverick Shop

5 May 2023: Melissa A. Volker interviewed by Sheila Gallien for Dropping In to Power

4 May 2023: JRB: Excerpt from The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

2 May 2023: Karavan Press to publish new editions of Nick Mulgrew’s short story collections

2 May 2023: Lunchtime Lecture by Kim Gurney, Stellenbosch

27 April 2023: CapeTalk’s John Maytham interviews Lethokuhle Msimang about The Frightened

24 April 2023: Karavan Press and Protea Distribution are local distribution partners for Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

22 April 2023: Karavan Stories Workshop

20 April 2023: The Book Lounge’s Book of the Week: 20 % off The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

20 April 2023: Karen Jennings at the Rondebosch Book Club

6 April 2023: afterwards by Kerry Hammerton launched at The Book Lounge

5 April 2023: The Book Lounge launch of Kerry Hammerton’s afterwards

4 April 2023: Karavan Press author Michael Boyd shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023

25 March 2023: Tokai Library Mini Book Fair

22 March 2023: Author talk at the Tokai Library: Melissa A. Volker

21 March 2023: Karavan Press at the Jewish Literary Festival

20 March 2023: Melissa Sussens at Off the Wall

15 March 2023: EB Cavendish launch of Cat Therapy by Gail Gilbride

14 March 2023: Liberty Books launch of Cat Therapy by Gail Gilbride

10-11 March 2023: Books on the Bay

10 March 2023: Karavan Press at the Books on the Bay literary festival

25 February 2023: Lester Walbrugh at the Adam Small Festival

16 February 2023: Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh among Shaun de Waal’s “5 top novels you might’ve missed”

15 February 2023: Joanne Hichens at the Pinelands Library

26 January 2023: Stephen Symons reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

24 January 2023: Liberty Books launch of Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens

9 December 2022: Salon Hecate launch with Helen Moffett and Karavan Press authors, Sindiwe Magona, Melissa A. Volker, Stephen Symons and Lester Walbrugh, among others

9 December 2022: Scenes from the second Karavan Press Literary Festival

8 December 2022: Meet the Author: Nancy Richards

4 December 2022: Shafinaaz Hassim interviews Joanne Hichens about Death and the After Parties for BookBytes

3 December 2022: Karavan Press Literary Festival 2022

1 December 2022: Small Souls by Stephen Symons launched at Wordsworth Books Gardens

November 2022: Conjectures by James Leatt published in the US by Wipf and Stock Publishers

30 November 2022: Dawn Garisch performs at the opening of the group exhibition NATURE | US

28 November 2022: Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens available on Kindle

28 November 2022: Book launch at Wordsworth Books Gardens: Small Souls by Stephen Symons

24 November 2022: Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens launched at EB Cavendish

23 November 2022: Book launch at Exclusive Books Cavendish: Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens

19 November 2022: Karavan Press Poets at Poetry in McGregor

16 November 2022: Second Life Bookclub with Joy Watson

15 November 2022: Nancy Richards interviews Kim Gurney about Panya Routes

12 November 2022: Online launch of Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens

11 November 2022: FURTHER ADO with Dawn Garisch and Ian Bell

7 November 2022: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew wins the 2022 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award

3 November 2022: Dawn Garisch reading at Dustcover Bookshop in Nieu-Bethesda

2-5 November 2022: Madibaland World Literary Festival

29 October 2022: Book discussion: Kim Gurney and Joy Watson in conversation about Panya Routes

26 October 2022: EB Cavendish launch of Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh

22 October 2022: Johannesburg launch of Panya Routes by Kim Gurney

20 October 2022: Melissa Sussens reading at The Red Wheelbarrow

19 October 2022: In conversation: Karen Jennings and Jennifer Malec

15-16 October 2022: Cape Flats Book Festival

26 September 2022: US rights sold for Conjectures: Living With Questions by James Leatt

24 September 2022: Kim Gurney on a public panel about the politics, legacies and inheritances of independent spaces

22-25 September 2022: Karavan Press at the Gothenburg Book Fair

21 September 2022: Melissa Sussens will be reading at the Tokai Library

15-17 September 2022: Karavan Press authors at the Blown Away by Books festival, Fish Hoek Library

11 September 2022: “The basic idea came to me during a nap” – Karen Jennings on the genesis of An Island

10 September 2022: Friends of Tokai Library Book Sale

9 September 2022: Dr Sindiwe Magona receives a PhD in Creative Writing from UWC

9 September 2022: The Island Prize opens for submissions

8 September 2022: JRB features an excerpt from Lester Walbrugh’s debut novel Elton Baatjies and an interview with Joy Watson

6 September 2022: Lester Walbrugh’s debut novel Elton Baatjies to be launched at Liberty Books

4 September 2022: Sunday Times Literary Awards: An Island by Karen Jennings shortlisted for the Fiction Prize

29 August 2022: LIVING WHILE FEMINIST – Joy Watson: Parenting an adult child, feminist public policy, and the writing life

29 August 2022: Joy and Mary Watson chat about Mary’s latest book, Blood to Poison

24 August 2022: “How I finally conquered my shame and darkness and left my violent abuser” by Cathy Park Kelly

22 August 2022: “Why I Stayed” – Cathy Park Kelly writes for Primer

18 August 2022: Dawn Garisch at The Red Wheelbarrow

15 August 2022: Panya Routes by Kim Gurney launched at the A4 Arts Foundation

12 August 2022: Huisgenoot interview with Cathy Park Kelly: “Skrywer stort hart uit oor mishandeling: Ek moes my seun die kindervriendelike weergawe vertel”

12 August 2022: Avbob Poetry interview with Melissa Sussens

11 August 2022: Book launch: Panya Routes by Kim Gurney

10 August 2022: Karavan Press authors hosted by the UJW

3 August 2022: Let’s talk about love: Cathy Park Kelly, Melissa A. Volker and Joy Watson discuss relationships with Karina M. Szczurek

1 August 2022: Karavan Press and Protea Distribution become local distribution partners for Kim Gurney’s Panya Routes and August House is Dead, Long Live August House!

26-29 July 2022: Open Book Festival Workshops with Life Righting Collective’s Dawn Garisch

20-21 July 2022: Joy Watson is launching The Other Me at three different events in Joburg

19 July 2022: Joy Watson is launching The Other Me at Wordsworth Books Sea Point

14 July 2022: Meet the Author: Joy Watson at WZBC

11 July 2022: Book Talk: Cathy Park Kelly at the Price Albert Library

9 July 2022: July WZ Book Club with Joy Watson

7 July 2022: The Other Me by Joy Watson to be launched at EB Waterfront

26 June 2022: Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists announced

20 June 2022: News24: 10 Questions for Joy Watson

16 June 2022: An Island by Karen Jennings among NYT’s 10 New Books Recommended

1 June 2022: C.A. Davids interviews Karen Jennings for Electric Literature

29 May 2022: Gagman to be launched at Joahnnesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

26 May 2022: The EB Cavendish launch of The Other Me in the Southern Suburbs Tatler

26 May 2022: The Other Me by Joy Watson launched at EB Cavendish and Liberty Books

25 May 2022: The Other Me by Joy Watson to be launched at Liberty Books

24 May 2022: Stephen Symons reading at Karlstad University

24 May 2022: The Other Me by Joy Watson to be launched at EB Cavendish

21 May 2022: Karavan Press authors at the KBF 2022

16 May 2022: The Faculty of Arts and Design at DUT conferred an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Visual and Performing Arts to Thembi Mtshali-Jones

13 May 2022: Karen Jennings at the FLF 2022

10 May 2022: Joy Watson’s The Other Me launched at The Electric, with The Book Lounge co-hosting

6 May 2022: Winners of The Island Prize 2022 have been announced

3 May 2022: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew to be launched at Ike’s Books

26 April 2022: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew launched at The Book Lounge

26 April 2022: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew to be launched at The Book Lounge

6 April 2022: Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly to be launched at Love Books

April 2022: National Poetry Writing Month 2022 with Melissa Sussens

31 March 2022: Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh shortlisted at the HSS Awards

30 March 2022: Joy Watson speaks to CapeTalk’s John Maytham about The Other Me

26-27 March 2022: Open Book Festival 2022

26-27 March 2022: Karavan Press authors at the Open Book Festival

25 March 2022: An Island by Karen Jennings launched at EB Cavendish

20 March 2022: Gagman: Exposing the horrors through humour

16 March 2022: Daily Maverick Life: Read an excerpt from The Other Me by Joy Watson

15 March 2022: Daily Maverick: Joy Watson writes about the upcoming Open Book Festival

12 March 2022: The Shallow Tales Review Holds Second Commemorative Literary Reading – Karen Jennings is one of the reading authors

11 March 2022: Dov and Joanne Fedler interviewed about Gagman

10 March 2022: Cathy Park Kelly and Penny Haw at Liberty Books

2 March 2022: Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly to be launched at Wordsworth Books Longbeach Mall on 2 March 2022

26 February 2022: Karavan Press authors at the Adam Small Fees

16 February 2022: Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly launched at the Alma Café

15 February 2022: Melissa Sussens to publish her debut poetry collection with Karavan Press

3 February 2022: Dov Fedler’s Gagman makes its deadline

2 February 2022: Nancy Richards interviews Justin Fox for People’s Stories & Books

2 February 2022: LitNet: Joanne Hichens interviews Cathy Park Kelly for LitNet

30 January 2022: ‘Reading Romance: Melissa Volker’s twisty love stories with an environmental agenda’ by Joy Watson

24-28 January 2022: Karen Jennings at the UCT Summer School

20 January 2022: Stephen Symons will be reading at The Red Wheelbarrow at 19:30

18 January 2022: Nancy Richards interviews Lester Walbrugh for People’s Stories & Books

17 January 2022: Karavan Press and Protea Distribution become local distribution partners for Dov and Joanne Fedler’s Gagman

30 December 2021: Justin Fox se debuutbundel gebore uit liefde vir reis en landskap – AJ Opperman, Netwerk24

24 December 2021: CapeTalk’s John Maytham interviews James Leatt about Conjectures: Living With Questions

22 December 2021: Holland House Books Podcast: Karen Jennings

16 December 2021: An Island by Karen Jennings among the Daily Mavericks Editors’ picks for “Essential Books of 2021”

15 December 2021: Cathy Park Kelly speaks to CapeTalk’s John Maytham about her memoir, Boiling a Frog Slowly

15 December 2021: Two Karavan Press titles on the Book Lounge’s 21 bestsellers of 2021 list!

10 December 2021: Read the first chapter of Melissa A. Volker’s The Pool Guy on Arts24

8 December 2021: Book launch: Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly

4 December 2021: Watch a fragment of Penny Haw’s The Wilderness Between Us launch at EB EB Cavendish (23 November)

2 December 2021: “Choose your story” by Pamela Power mentions Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly and The Pool Guy by Melissa A. Volker

1 December 2021: Melissa A. Volker’s The Pool Guy launched at The Alma Café

1 December 2021: Book launch: The Pool Guy by Melissa A. Volker

29 November 2021: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew included in the Book Lounge’s Festive Reading Guide

28 November 2021: KPLF 2021 a resounding success

27 November 2021: Karavan Press Literary Festival

26 November 2021: “Dealer” – a new story by Nick Mulgrew

23-25 November 2021: Karavan Press at EB Cavendish

25 November 2021: The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards to be launched at EB Cavendish

24 November 2021: Book launch: Stephen Symons and Justin Fox launching their poetry collections at EB Cavendish

23 November 2021: Penny Haw is launching The Wilderness Between Us at EB Cavendish

19-21 November 2021: Poetry in McGregor

18 November 2021: Hauntings, compiled by Niq Mhlongo, includes stories by Joanne Hichens and Lester Walbrugh

15 November 2021: People of Note: Nancy Richards – FMR interview

12 November 2021: Stephen Symons shortlisted for the GBAS Cover Design Awards for his design of Beat Routes by Justin Fox

10 November 2021: The second Open Book podcast features Mandla Langa, Joanne Joseph and Nick Mulgrew

7 November 2021: SALA winners announced – An Island by Karen Jennings is among them

28 October 2021: Nick Mulgrew in conversation with Maneo Mohale at the launch of A Hibiscus Coast, EB Melrose Arch, 6for 6.30PM

14 October 2021: An Island by Karen Jennings released as an audio book

9 October 2021: The Skipper’s Daughter launch in Greyton

9 and 16 October 2021: Book signings at Exclusive Books Constantia

7 October 2021: Wits Review: “Go With the Slow” – an interview with Dawn Garisch

6 October 2021: The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards to be launched at The Alma Café

30 September 2021: An Island by Karen Jennings is shortlisted for the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award

19 September 2021: BookBytes: Shafinaaz Hassim speaks to journalist and podcaster, Nancy Richards about her newly published memoir, The Skipper’s Daughter

15 September 2021: Lester Walbrugh stars in 2 THIRDS OF A MAN

14 September 2021: “Blue Sky Thinking – A Cure for Writer’s Block?” by Melissa A. Volker, writing for ROSA

13 September 2021: “It took the Booker to introduce South African to their own Karen Jennings”

10 September 2021: Masobe Books to publish An Island y Karen Jennings in Nigeria

9 September 2021: Live book event: On Being a Writer in Kalk Bay

8 September 2021: A Fractured Land by Melissa A. Volker longlisted for the Page Turner Award – Book Award 2021

6 September 2021: Karen Jennings in conversation with Karin Schimke on FMR’s Book Choice

30 August 2021: Michael Heyward, publisher at Text, interviewed Karen Jennings, the Booker-longlisted author of An Island

27 August 2021: Stephen Symons is shortlisted for The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Competition

25 August 2021: Brian Ingpen writes about The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards for the Cape Times

22 August 2021: Join Shafinaaz Hassim on BookBytes as she interviews Karen Jennings about An Island on Sunday, 22 August, 19h30pm, on Salaamedia

20 August 2021: Bongani Kona interviews Karen Jennings for New Frame

19 August 2021: Jennifer Malec interviews Karen Jennings for the JRB

18 August 2021: Karavan Press to publish Lester Walbrugh’s chilling debut novel

16 August 2021: The Booker Prize: Interview with Karen Jennings

12 August 2021: Wesley Ford interviews Nancy Richards for the Tatler

10 August 2021: Brittle Paper: Helen Moffett pays tribute to Karen Jennings

9 August 2021: Karen Jennings interviewed by Phumi Ramalepe for Business Insider SA

6 August 2021: Nancy Richards interviewed by CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson about The Skipper’s Daughter

5 August 2021: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett interviewed Karen Jennings for the Guardian

4 August 2021: WriteOnline’s weekly newsletter by Mike Nicol includes lovely news and quotes about Karavan Press authors

30 July 2021: Interview: Karen Jennings on CapeTalk’s Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

27 July 2021: ‘This is an extraordinary moment for me’: SA writer Karen Jennings on Booker longlist – Shaun de Waal writing for Arts24

27 July 2021: An Island by Karen Jennings longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize

19 July 2021: “Searching for home along a hibiscus coast” – Kris van der Bijl interviews Nick Mulgrew about his debut novel A Hibiscus Coast

11 July 2021: Sara-Jayne Makwala King interviews Dawn Garisch on CapeTalk’s Weekend Breakfast about her Sunday Times/CNA Fiction Award-shortlisted novel Breaking Milk and the Life Righting Collective

10 July 2021: Duncan Guy interviews Nick Mulgrew about A Hibiscus Coast for Durban’s Independent on Saturday

27 June 2021: 2021 Sunday Times/CNA Fiction Award shortlist: “Dawn Garisch in the genesis of Breaking Milk“

9 June 2021: Pop-up sale cancelled

7 June 2021: Saturday, 12 June 2021, Karavan Press pop-up sale – 50% off all Karavan Press titles

6 June 2021: Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch shortlisted for the Sunday Times/CNA Fiction Award

2 June 2021: Forthcoming from Karavan Press: The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy and Nancy Richards

2 June 2021: Q&A: Nick Mulgrew on A Hibiscus Coast – The Book Lounge’s Something Special Interview

1 June 2021: Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens among the top ten bestsellers at EB Cavendish

27 May 2021: Death and the After Parties launched at EB Cavendish

13 May 2021: Death and the After Parties to be launched at EB Cavendish on 27 May 2021

25 April 2021: Sunday Times/CNA Literary Awards 2021 longlists announced

25 April 2021: Stimmen Afrikas Livestream: Karen Jennings

21 April 2021: FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT by Stephen Symons launched at Wordsworth Books Gardens

20 April 2021: FINDING HERSELF – Nancy Richards interviews Dawn Garisch for Woman Zone Stories

7 April 2021: Stephen Symons to launch his latest poetry collection, FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT, at Wordsworth Books, Gardens Centre, on 21 April 2021

16 March 2021: Dawn Garisch will be in conversation with Jo-Ann Bekker at The School in Rheenendal

9 March 2021: Catch Sindiwe Magona at the Time of the Writer 2021

4 March 2021: Joanne Hichens in conversion with Mandi Friedman of ‘Life, in a Garden’ about her memoir, Death and After Parties

26 February 2021: Dawn Garisch will be reading at The Red Wheelbarrow on Thursday, 4 March, 19:30

19 February 2021: Joanne Hichens interviews Karen Jennings about An Island

21 January 2021: Cover reveal: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew

20 January 2021: Tune in on 27 January 2021, 7PM, to Life, in a Garden – a conversation with Joanne Hichens

18 January 2021: Global Literature in Libraries Initiative: A Reflection on Publishing by Karina Szczurek of Karavan Press

28 December 2020: Carmen from The Book Lounge picked Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh as one of her books of 2020

22 December 2020: Death and the After Parties now also available on Kindle

14 December 2020: Read an excerpt from Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh in the Johannesburg Review of Books

13 December 2020: Nancy Richards interviews Joanne Hichens about her memoir, Death and the After Parties, for Woman Zone Stories

11 December 2020: Pamela Power recommends Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens on her GoSeeDo’s Reading Matters

9 December 2020: Disturbance by Dawn Garisch launched at the Chartfield Guesthouse in Kalk Bay

2 December 2020: FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT by Stephen Symons launched at the Alma Café

27 November 2020: Joanne Hichens speaks to CapeTalk’s John Maytham about her memoir, Death and the After Parties

26 November 2020: Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh included in the Book Lounge’s Festive Reading Guide

24 November 2020: Disturbance by Dawn Garisch to be launched at Chartfield Guesthouse in Kalk Bay

23 November 2020: Alexander Brand interviews Lester Walbrugh and writes about the launch of Let It Fall Where it Will at Elgin Ridge Wine Estate

20 November 2020: John Maytham reads from FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT by Stephen Symons

12 November 2020: FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT by Stephen Symons to be launched at the Alma Café on 2 December

30 October 2020: Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh to be launched at Elgin Ridge Wine Estate on 21 November

19 October 2020: Karavan Press to publish Nick Mulgrew’s debut novel, A Hibiscus Coast

16 October 2020: Karavan Press to publish first poetry collection: FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT by STEPHEN SYMONS

15 October 2020: Karen Jennings talks to Mandi Friedman of ‘Life, in a Garden’, about her life, her writing and most recent novel, An Island

1 October 2020: Pre-order Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh and/or Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens from The Book Lounge in October and get 20% off

15 September 2020: Melissa A. Volker’s Shadow Flicker included in “Around the World in 80 Books: A Further Look at Climate Change and Ecologically Oriented Fiction”

9 September 2020: Cover reveal: Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens

2 September 2020: Sue Brown on Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

31 August 2020: Salonfestival magazine features the Cape Town festival

11 August 2020: Karavan Press books available at The Alma Café Traders’ Market on 15 August

10 August 2020: Life, in a Garden virtual event with Karen Jennings to take place on Sunday, 16 August, at 10:30AM

14 July 2020: Cover reveal: Let it Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh

1 July 2020: UK publisher Holland House Books and Karavan Press to co-publish An Island by Karen Jennings

26 June 2020: Pamela Power interviews Melissa A. Volker for Go.See.Do.South Africa: “Shadow Flicker & Other Things”

26 June 2020: To celebrate the publication of Earth to Mom, a new personal essay by Sue Brown: “The Storm”

15 June 2020: Karen Jennings on her novel An Island

June-July 2020: Sindiwe Magona’s biography of Thembi Mtshali-Jones, Theatre Road, on the Exclusive Books HOMEBRU list

30 April 2020: Thembi Mtshali-Jones receives the SAFTAs Lifetime Achiever Award

10 April 2020: Lockdown musings on survival

30 March 2020: Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker available on Kindle at a special quarantine price

29 March 2020: A message from Thembi Mtshali-Jones: “Yes, we can do this together.”

27 March 2020: Amabookabooka Interview: Melissa A. Volker

14 March 2020: Melissa A. Volker at Blown Away by Books at the Fish Hoek Library

6 March 2020: Karavan Press to publish Earth to Mom: Personal Essays on Loss & Love by Sue Brown, author of The Twinkling Of an Eye

27 February 2020: Dawn Garisch and Melissa A. Volker at the Salonfestival Cape Town

18 February 2020: Karavan Press authors at the Salonfestival Cape Town, 27 February

16 February 2020: Karavan Press author Dawn Garisch at the Jewish Literary Festival, Cape Town, 15 March

15 February 2020: Karavan Press authors at Blown Away by Books, Fish Hoek Library, 11-14 March

24 January 2020: Pamela Power reports from the Kromme River launch of Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

20 January 2020: “The Extraordinary Disappearance of Me” – Melissa A. Volker writes about the six months since the publication of her second novel Shadow Flicker

17 December 2019: Theatre Road features on the Book Lounge’s local non-fiction “Gift Wishlist” for the Christmas stocking

15 December 2019: Theatre Road one of this year’s “most outstanding books”

11 December 2019: Melissa A. Volker interviewed by Dragonfly, a news site that covers environmental fiction authors’ works

10 December 2019: WOMEN IN A FRACTURED WORLD with Melissa A. Volker and Dawn Garisch one of the highlights of the Salonfestival Cape Town 2020

6 December 2019: Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker to be launched at the St. Francis Brewing Company, which features in the novel

5 December 2019: Karavan Press founder, Karina M. Szczurek, to speak about writing and publishing at the Woman Zone Book Club in Cape Town

29 November 2019: Melissa A. Volker features twice on S.A. Partridge’s list of “10 local books [by women writers] to buy your loved ones this Christmas”: with her short story “Spa Ritual”, included in HAIR: Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity, and with her novel, Shadow Flicker

28 November 2019: CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson interviews Sindiwe Magona and Thembi Mtshali-Jones about Theatre Road

26 November 2019: Theatre Road and Breaking Milk included in Country Life‘s “25 Books to Read this Summer Holiday” by Nancy Richards

12 November 2019: Theatre Road to be launched at The Book Lounge on 28 November

22 October 2019: CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson interviews Dawn Garisch about Breaking Milk

22 October 2019: Dawn Garisch launches Breaking Milk at Kalk Bay Books and we catch up with Caroline Gill, winner of the Karavan Press Review Competition

16 October 2019: Caroline Gill wins the Karavan Press Review Competition for her review of A Fractured Land by Melissa A. Volker

15 October 2019: Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch to be launched at Kalk Bay Books on 22 October 2019

4 October 2019: Karavan Press at the 2019 Prince Albert Leesfees

1 October 2019: Karavan Press to publish a biography of Thembi Mtshali-Jones – THEATRE ROAD: MY STORY as told to Sindiwe Magona

26 September 2019: Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch to be launched on 8 October 2019 at The Book Lounge

28 August 2019: Dawn Garisch at the Open Book Festival 2019

23 August 2019: Shadow Flicker launched at Xpression on the Beach

4 August 2019: Karavan Press: A LitNet interview with founder and publisher, Karina M. Szczurek

28 July 2019: “Eco-Romance | Read It, Love It” – Izak de Vries writes about the Book Lounge launch of Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

28 July 2019: Karavan Press at the Montagu Book Festival/Boekefees

22 July 2019: Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker to be launched at Xpression on the Beach in Muizenberg on 22 August 2019

18 July 2019: Cover reveal of Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch

17 July 2019: Competition: Review one of Melissa A. Volker’s novels and stand a chance to win a book voucher worth R1000!

17 July 2019: Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker launched at the Book Lounge

12 July 2019: CapeTalk’s John Maytham interviews Melissa A. Volker

28 June 2019: Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker to be launched at the Book Lounge on 16 July 2019

28 June 2019: First Karavan Press titles delivered to author

26 June 2019: Karavan Press to publish Lester Walbrugh’s debut collection of short stories

18 June 2019: Melissa A. Volker at the Montagu Book Festival

14 June 2019: Karavan Press to publish Breaking Dawn by Dawn Garisch

27 May 2019: Author Interview: Melissa A. Volker

17 May 2019: First Karavan Press titles go to print

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