Category: recent posts
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Manuscript Assessment: Things You Need to Know
In this third instalment of our series for writers, we move to a stage that can feel both exciting and nerve-racking: letting someone else read your manuscript seriously. After setting writing goals and working through drafts, many writers reach the point where they start asking the same question: should I get a manuscript assessment? A…
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When Adults Write Childhood
Increasingly, authors, and aprents alike, describe children’s books as the stories they “wished they had as children.” But when adults write childhood from memory, the centre of the story can quietly shift from the child reader to the adult remembering.
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ABOUT: Robyn-Jade Hosking
Robyn-Jade Hosking was born in 1991 in Fish Hoek, a sleepy seaside suburb nestled in the Cape Peninsula, but spent most of her childhood and teenage years surrounded by the lush forests of Knysna after relocating to the Garden Route. She has since moved back to Cape Town and currently manages an art gallery in…
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ABOUT: Siza Nkosi
Siza Nkosi is a published poet, writer, lyricist, guitarist and a mother who has shared pages of her life-stories on stages with renowned poets and artists. She currently works as an IT Networking Specialist. Her journey as a poet and writer started in 2006, when she was discovered by Abdul Milazi – Editor of Sunday…