SALA EXTENDS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO ATTRACT MORE BOOKS IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
PRESS RELEASE
(29TH March 2019)
Released by the wRite associates
EXTENSION ANNOUNCED:
THE 14TH CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO 30TH APRIL 2019
Due to public request, the South African Literary Awards (SALA) Call for Submissions is extended to 30th April 2019.
This was considered after we had received many requests by entrants pleading for extension to enable their submissions make it for the SALA 2019 edition.
SALA resolved to accommodate these requests, thus this extension for one more month.
INVITATION
THE MIRIAM TLALI READING AND BOOK CLUB
Invites you to join:
Multiple-Award Winning Author, Victorine Mbong Shu and 12-Year-Old Stacey Fru, International Award-Winning Bestselling Author. This Mother and Daughter are both Activists, Philanthropists, Educators and BrandSA Ambassadors with special focus on literacy and motivational talks.
Theme:
“Parents involvement is the number one predictor of early literacy success and future academic achievement”
The reading and discussion will be centred on their books:
STOP COMPLAINING: BRING BACK INVOLVED PARENTING
and
SMELLY CATS ON VACATION
Date: 20th April 2019
Time: 13H00 to 15H00
Venue: wRite associates 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge
RSVP by no later than 17 April 2019
Call for Papers
The 8th (eighth) annual Africa Century International African Writers Conference (ACIAWC) invites
papers and panel proposals, interpreting the theme:
“Africa Writing in Tongues: Towards Social, Political, Heritage and Culture Justice”
Celebrating UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019)
Date:
7th November 2019
Venue:
University of South Africa (UNISA), Muckleneuk Campus. Preller Street, Muckleneuk, Pretoria,
Gauteng, South Africa
Abstract Submission Opens: February 25 2019
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: June 10 2019
Deadline for submission of full papers for accepted abstracts: September 23 2019
THE 14TH CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN LITERARY AWARDS (SALA): 2019
The wRite associates, in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) invites South African writers to submit their work for the 14th South African Literary Awards (SALA) in 12 categories.
The main aim of the South African Literary Awards is to pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as groundbreaking producers and creators of literature, while it celebrates literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems, philosophies and art as inscribed and preserved in all eleven official languages of South Africa. The awards have become the most prestigious and respected literary accolades in South African literature.
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