Durban – Literary Festival

The Consulate General of India and the University of KwaZulu-Natal,
as part of Indian Experience 2008, are proud to invite you and a partner to “WORDS ON WATER” – a Literary Festival -  on 13th Sept 2008 from 10:00 am to 16:00 pm at the GSB Auditorium, Westville Campus, UKZN.

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Consulate General of India, Durban
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Another Writers Write Course in Durban and Romancing the Dollar

We will be hosting another Writers Write course in Durban, as a one week course, from 29nd September – 3rd October from 09:00 – 13:00 daily.
I, Amanda, will be training this course for this session only.
Please note that we only have a limited number of available spaces on this course. If you would like to [...]

WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM?

Find your birthday and then find your tree. This is really cool and somewhat accurate. Then send it to your friends, including the one that sent it to you, so they can find out what tree they fell from, but don’t forget to change the subject line to your tree.  Find your tree below and [...]

Play a Bit with Wordle

Wordle isn’t exactly a word game or a design tool, but it is an ingenious way to make beautiful word clouds.
According to the blurb on their website,  “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. [...]

A Night at the Opera – the Pictures

Well, you heard all about A Night at the Opera?
Now see the pictures of the Gala Night at the Russian opera in Johannesburg with The Write Co.

Winners of The Write Co Short Story Competition

1st Prize: Up in Arms by Ilva Pieterse
A Writers Write course – valued at R4 500, or gift vouchers for The Write Co valued at R4 500, your story published in The Write Co Newsletter
2nd Prize: Action Approved by Richard Greensmith
1 year’s subscription to The Write Club, worth R1 800
3rd Prize: Raw/Hide by Amanda Paulsen
4 [...]

KASI DEEP & SAKHILE MZIZI CD LAUNCH

Please note that Entrance is R30 and not R50!
Spiros Cafe (4mer Nandi Nice)
Directions – Take da (Durban rd) N3
Off-ramp on Barry Marais (Vosloorus), turn right
Go pass 2 sets of robots
A Police station will be on your right
Complex after the Police Station

Amanda Speaks to Author/Publisher, Laura Boon

Author: Laura Boon
Date: 31  August 2006 & 24 July 2008
Sun Sign: Leo
Where: Staffroom, Crawford College & Chocadore, Hyde park
The Book: Public Relations & Your Business (Frontrunner)
The Reason: Laura Boon Literary Agency

1.   Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Stephanie Plum
2.  What is your most treasured possession?
My books
3.   Which living person do you most dislike?
Tony Leon. He’s [...]

Special Offer on Russian Opera Tickets

“We’re thrilled to be able to offer this,” says Amanda Patterson, CEO or the Write Co about the low price prime tickets that they are able to offer via this blog and their website and Facebook Groups.
The Russian Opera, Iolanta, with the libretto by Pyotr’s brother, Modest Tchaikovsky after the dramatic poem ‘King Rene’s Daughter’ [...]

An Intimate Workshop with Acclaimed Poets

Join Poets Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar
Renowned Poets & Extraordinary Teachers
offer a full-day workshop
Doesn’t this sound like a dream come true? For us South African’s the tricky part is that this Intimate Workshop with Acclaimed Poets is in the Hudson Valley in New York.
But there are some good links to read their work… and to [...]