Philisiwe Twijnstra on Finding Her Voice, Facing Rejection and Writing Fearlessly
Since completing the Basic Grammar Skills Course with SA Writers’ College in 2016, South African playwright, theatre-maker and fiction writer Philisiwe Twijnstra has built a creative career shaped by imagination, persistence and bold storytelling. Philisiwe has received both local and international recognition for her work, which is rooted in memory, identity, folklore and the lived […]
Why I Became a Writer (Finally!)
BY ETIENNE LOMBARD The desk was glass, long and cold, and on clear days I could see Table Mountain reflected in its surface from where I sat on the fourteenth floor of a building in the Cape Town CBD. The mountain’s upper slopes go tawny in winter, patched with old burns and new growth pressing […]
From Our Course to the Bookshelves of South Africa: The Siya Masuku Story
How one SA Writers’ College student became a publisher, filmmaker and advocate working to restore indigenous languages to South African childhood. When Siya Masuku enrolled in the SA Writers’ College Basic Creative Writing Course in 2017, he already had a year’s worth of momentum behind him. The previous year, he had successfully crowdfunded his own […]