Writing Community: Wits Writing Festival

The Wits Writing Programme (WWP) presents writing festival

The theme of this year’s writing festival is Writing Community. The festival features South African poet-activist Diana Ferrus and two scholars from Bard College in the United States. The festival includes workshops on storytelling and listening, panel discussions on integrating writing with learning, writing black, and writing the city with Barbara Adair. Don’t miss the screening of WWP alumna Roberta Hunte’s documentary Sista in the Brotherhood, a reading from teenagers from Hillbrow of their version of Aime Cesaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, as well as poetry from Phillippa Yaa de Villiers. The festival also features evening book launches including Avenues by Train by Farai Mudzingwa, Cassava Republic Press; Once Removed by David Mann, Botsotso; Still to be Named: An exploration of African Epistemologies using Simphiwe Dana’s selected works by Nompumelelo Radebe and Zeithu Cakata, UNISA; and She Will Struggle: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World, presented by contributing author Kebotlhale Motseothata. Pluto Press presents the festival in partnership with Xarra Books, Wits Creative Writing, Open University Society Networks and Bard’s Institute for Writing and Thinking.

View the brochure below with the festival programme:

Writing Community: Wits Writing Festival brochure

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