Wordfest South Africa

Wordfest South Africa Our aim is to foster a culture of reading and writing in South Africa and to promote innovation and e
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Our aim is to foster a culture of reading and writing in South Africa and to promote innovation and excellence in the word-arts. We provide a platform during the National Arts Festival for South African writers and publishers and for new and established writers from different disciplines with special emphasis for marginal languages. There are over a hundred activities each year, as follows:

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nty to thirty book-launches
- lectures
- performances
- seminars
- exhibitions
- workshops
- Open Mike
- a restaurant
- a retail book outlet (Van Schaik Bookshop)
- media contracts with the print and broadcast media
- Eastern Cape Wordfest
- Junior and High School developmental projects

Wordfest has been going strong for more than a decade and continues to grow. We have featured Nobel prizewinners, as well as providing a platform for community level writers and writers well-known in indigenous South African languages. Every year we strive to be better than the previous year and to encourage sponsors and writers to become involved. Wordfest South Africa is proud and grateful to have the NIHSS, National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences as a major sponsor for 2017.

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Grahamstown
6139

Telephone

+27760221111

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