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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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