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Karavan Press and Indeed Books authors at the Cape Flats Book Festival 2026

The Cape Flats Book Festival 2026 is just around the corner and it is the perfect start to the literary festival calendar of the new year. A few Karavan Press and Indeed Books authors feature on the wonderful programme that has something to offer for every literary desire. We can’t wait for these two days of bookish encounters. Please join us!

SATURDAY, 31 January 2026

10:45-11:25

13:30-14:10

14:25-15:05

15:20-16:00

SUNDAY, 1 February 2026

12:45-13:25

13:40-14:20

Click here for the entire programme:

CAPE FLATS BOOK FESTIVAL 2026

We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Karavan Press title: IN OTHER STORIES 2025 edited by Kerry Hammerton

‘I am excited by the diversity of writing that is in the anthology, and the variety of stories. There are themes around birth, relationships, our society and death. There are African fables, historical pieces, endings and beginnings, humour and satire, surrealism.’

— Kerry Hammerton

Contributors

Rachel May Ferriman | Sarah Buchner | Megan Kay Rossouw | Máire Fisher | Karina M. Szczurek | Kerry Hammerton | Michelle A. Meyer | Jana van Niekerk | Jen Thorpe | Nontobeko Mtshali | Anna Hug | Karen Jennings | Chantal Stewart | Bongani Kona | Siphosethu Siwaphiwe Zazela | Stephen Symons | Michael Boyd | Limor Kay | Melissa Sussens | Sahra Ryklief | Anne Schlebusch | Tiisetso Tlelima | Petros Isaakidis

ISBN: 978-1-0492-1509-9

Publication date: November 2025

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Karavan Press at the Madibaland @ BookBedonnerd Literary Festival

We are heading to Richmond again at the end of this month and hoping that many readers from across the country will follow. It is time for the Madibaland @ BookBedonnerd Literary Festival! Taking place between 30 October and 1 November, the festival brings together a wonderful mix of writers and readers.

Among the participants are Karavan Press authors Chantal Stewart, Kerry Hammerton and Holland House Books’ Andile Cele, whose wonderful debut novel, Braids & Migraines, we help distribute in South Africa.

THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2025

11:30 ANDILE CELE

FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2025

9:30 KERRY HAMMERTON

SATURDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2025

9:30 CHANTAL STEWART

For more details and the full programme, see:

Madibaland @ BookBedonnerd Literary Festival

We look forward to seeing you all there!

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WRITING SHORT with Kerry Hammerton and the Life Righting Collective

Sometimes we have a personal story we want to tell but it feels too large or too overwhelming. What would it mean if you wrote that story as a piece of flash? Join writer and writing facilitator Kerry Hammerton to explore the art of writing flash creative non-fiction/memoir and fiction, or writing short. We will read interesting examples of flash and use them as a stepping stone to generate writing. The workshop will be interactive with a number of exercises and creative ways of exploring writing ideas. You will leave with a number of pieces of writing that you can edit and incorporate into a larger piece of work.

“Writing is a mode of reading is a mode of writing is a mode of thinking is a mode of feeling.” Lance Olsen

For more details see: Life Righting Collective

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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!