Unisa - Creative Writing

Persverklaring: Samespraak, 28 Augustus 2024

Persverklaring: Samespraak, 28 Augustus 2024 - Voertaal Volgende week begin ons met ’n splinternuwe semester van Samespraak. Alwyn Roux en Yves T’Sjoen gesels met Francois Lötter oor Tuin van Digters, en Dzunisani Sibuyi gesels oor grondhervorming in Siphiwe Ndlovu se roman The theory of flight (2018).

Wise words from , one of my favorite writers ❤️

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'Those who want to write good poems should be reading good poetry ...' (Billy Collins)

💰SCHOLARSHIP: 2022 Netflix Postgraduate Scholarship Programme

In early 2021, Netflix announced their commitment to supporting black representation in the Film & TV industry in SA. Specifically, the company has committed to funding full post-graduate scholarships at higher educational institutions in South Africa to support the formal qualification and training of aspiring Black creatives in the film and TV disciplines.

Netflix has partnered with social investment fund management and advisory firm Tshikululu Social Investments as implementing partner/fund administrator, with the responsibility of successfully executing the project.

Find out how you can apply for this scholarship: https://tshikululu.org.za/apply-for-funding/

Closing date: 31 Oct 2021

Here is a list of publishers who would be interested in reading your manuscript:

www.publishsa.co.za/ - The Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) has a list of SA publishers which you can select from.
www.vanschaiknet.com/
www.reachpublishers.co.za/
www.partridgepublishing.com/Africa
www.jonathanball.co.za/
www.penguinbooks.co.za/
www.publishersglobal.com/directory/south-africa/
www.kwela.com ‎
www.vivlia.co.za/
[email protected] – To self-publish your work, do get in touch with David Robbins at Porcupine Press.

Kind regards
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dr Roux

Vivlia Publishers & Booksellers Vivlia has established it’s self as a leading publisher in the South African school book market. We embrace the responsibility to play our part in enhancing the culture of teaching, learning, and reading in school communities. We understand the role of educational publications for passing on knowl...

“What we listen for in writing is a way of being in the world, a way of knowing. Skillful use of tone shows that the speaker cares, yes, but also shows how she is careful. How you hold it is what you know: that is tone” (Tony Hoagland, "Real Sufistikashun", p.106).

How To Craft A killer Short Story. - Romoma Series All you need to know about crafting a killer short story.Step by step procedures to help you craft that great

"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something." (Bernard Shaw)

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en

The danger of a single story Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Some thoughts on analysing the screenplay, the process of screenplay writing and the balance between craft and creativity

Jill Nelmes To cite this article: Jill Nelmes (2007) Some thoughts on analysing the screenplay, the process of screenplay writing and the balance between craft and creativity, Journal of Media Practice, 8:2, 107-113, DOI: 10.1386/jmpr.8.2.107_1 (Available as an e-Reserve)

"A crucial part of the scriptwriting process is the ability to make decisions about what works and what does not; there is a continual testing of and discarding of ideas as to their suitability for the story, especially in the early stages and the rewrites. All decisions about character and plot take the story along particular paths and it is difficult to disentangle this once decisions are made. How the writer makes these decisions is a particularly fascinating area to study further. The writer constantly asks questions at each stage; does it hold up as a story? Will it work as a screenplay? Why does the story need telling? Will that character work well with that one? Will there be conflict? What would happen in that situation? How will the story unfold? Writers often have someone to bounce ideas off at this time, either a producer, trusted friend or colleague. This process of asking questions and making decisions, particularly the consequences of an action by a character, the cause and effect direction of the story is crucial to the development of the narrative" (Nelmes, 2007:111).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/jmpr.8.2.107_1

Some thoughts on analysing the screenplay, the process of screenplay writing and the balance between craft and creativity (2007). Some thoughts on analysing the screenplay, the process of screenplay writing and the balance between craft and creativity. Journal of Media Practice: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 107-113.

"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists." (TS Eliot, "Tradition and the individual talent")

J. Hillis Miller, 92, Dies; Helped Revolutionize Literary Studies He was most closely associated with the Yale School, which took on the foundations of literary scholarship in the 1970s and ’80s.

Flow Wellington is a poetry-publishing powerhouse The Eastern Cape author and publisher speaks to fellow poet and writer Megan Ross about elevating black voices in publishing and why her press’ latest offering gives the middle finger to everything…

50 Of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes

1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)

2. ‘All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’

(As You Like it Act 2, Scene 7)

3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’

(Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)

4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’

(Richard III Act 1, Scene 1)

5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

(Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1)

6. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

(Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 5)

7. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

(Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 2)

8. ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’

(The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2)

9. ‘A man can die but once.’

(Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Part 2)

10. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’

(King Lear Act 1, Scene 4)

11. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)

12. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’

(The Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 1)

13. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

(Othello Act 5, Scene 2)

14. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’

(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2)

15. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’

(The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1)

16. ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

(Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5)

17. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘

(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)

18. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.’

(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)

19. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘

(Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1)

20. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’

(Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)

21. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’

(Henry IV, Part 1 Act 5, Scene 4)

22. ‘To thine own self be true.‘

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)

23. ‘All that glisters is not gold.’

(The Merchant of Venice Act 2, Scene 7)

24. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’

(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)

25. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’

(King Lear Act 1, Scene 1)

26. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)

27. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)

28. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘

(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1)

29. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

30. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘

(Richard III Act 5, Scene 4)

31. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5)

32. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)

33. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)

34. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’

(Sonnet 18)

35. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’

(Sonnet 116)

36. ‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’

(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)

37. ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’

(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)

38. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)

39. ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

(Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5)

40. ‘Off with his head!’

(Richard III Act 3, Scene 4)

41. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’

(Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1)

42. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’

(The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2)

43. ‘This is very midsummer madness.’

(Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4)

44. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’

(Much Ado about Nothing Act 3, Scene 1)

45. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’

(The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 3, Scene 2)

46. ‘We have seen better days.’

(Timon of Athens Act 4, Scene 2)

47. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

(King Lear Act 3, Scene 2)

48. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘

(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

49. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

(Richard II Act 2, Scene 1)

50. ‘What light through yonder window breaks.’

Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin

Ted Hughes on the ideal place for writing

https://nothingintherulebook.com/2017/07/07/ted-hughes-on-the-ideal-place-for-writing/

Ted Hughes on the ideal place for writing   James Joyce wrote lying on his stomach in bed, with a large blue pencil, clad in a white coat – and composed Finnegans Wake with crayon pieces on cardboard. Conrad Aiken worked at a refector…

Announcing the National Poetry Prize - Click here to enter:
https://newcontrast.submittable.com/submit/4031/the-national-poetry-prize-2020

Here's a comic from my new book, I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. Find it at your favorite local bookstore or wherever you get your books!
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Protea Boekhuis is looking for outstanding illustrators
Are you one of them? Send in your work and get recognized internationally!
Are you one of the inspiring, unique picture book artists we are looking for? If so, please send us three of your most unique illustrations that together tell a story.
The story might already exist or be one of your own. Include the text that goes with each illustration and give a short synopsis (not more than 250 words of the whole story). Send it as a Word document.
The illustrations should not have been published before.
Any technique or medium could be used.
You may enter only if you have not published an entire picture book with a trade publisher before. You are, however, allowed to enter if you have published educational books or other forms and genres before (e.g. in a poetry anthology, adult fiction, book covers, etcetera).
Illustrators from countries other than the United Kingdom, France, South Africa, Germany and the Netherlands and Belgium are also allowed to enter for the competition by uploading to any of the organising countries. For the sake of easy communication for all jury members, your text has to be in English.
Upload your entry, with accompanying text, before August 10th 2020. If you pass the first (digital) selection, you will be asked to send us hard copies of your work.
A professional jury will select the three best entries in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, South Africa, Germany and the United Kingdom. The results will be announced on www.wwpbic.com in August 2020. Winners will be informed by email.
The works of the twelve winning artists will be part of a travelling exhibition, which will be shown in the participating countries. The final selection will be published in an international catalogue and presented to several leading picture book publishing houses at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2020, thus giving the artists an excellent opportunity to find commissions.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-2020

5 summer books and other things to do at home Whether you’re looking for a distraction or just spending a lot more time at home, you can’t beat reading a book.