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Arja Salafranca

Fiction writer, poet, editor

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

How to Write a Book in 30 Days



Arja Salafranca talks about writing on SABC's breakfast show Expresso on Tuesday, 20 October 2015.
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Review of Beyond Touch by Kate Turkington in City Press


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Welcome to my blog

Here's a selection of my published short fiction, poems, essays, diaries and journalism, as well as articles about my work. Email arja.salafranca@gmail.com

About Arja Salafranca

Arja Salafranca has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped of Illusions, which received the Sanlam Award for poetry, The Fire in which we Burn; and Beyond Touch (2015) which was a co-winner of the SALA Awards. Her fiction has been published online, in anthologies and journals, and is collected in her debut collection, The Thin Line, long listed for the Wole Soyinka Award. She has participated in a number of writers’ conferences, edited two anthologies and has received awards for her poetry and fiction. Her next book is a collection of creative non-fiction essays, travel writing, personal essays and journal entries, to be published by Modjaji in 2019. She lives in Johannesburg.

Interviews with me

To read an interview with me about The Edge of Things, published in Voila! in 2011, click here

To read an interview with me published on The Star, October 28 2010, click here

To read a 2010 interview with me on The Dye Hard Interviews, click here

To read a 2010 interview with me on Litnet, click here

To read a 2005 interview with me on Litnet, click here.

To read a 2004 interview with me on Litnet, click here.

Features and reviews about my work

The Thin Line - Dividing line in human behaviour

Spotlight on Resurgence of women poets

Arja Salafranca's formative reading experiences

Beyond Touch

Beyond Touch
Beyond Touch is Arja Salafrancas third poetry collection and is published by Modjaji Books and Dye Hard Press. Published June 2015.

The Edge of Things

The Edge of Things
The Edge of Things is an anthology of South African short fiction, selected by Arja Salafranca. Published by Dye Hard Press, 2011. Available at bookstores throughout South Africa.

The Thin Line

The Thin Line
My debut collection of short fiction, was published by Modjaji Books in April 2010.

Where you can buy The Thin Line

The Thin Line is available at bookstores countrywide in SA. You can also buy a copy online from Kalahari.net, Loot,
Exclusive Books, and Amazon.


glass jars among trees

glass jars among trees
An anthology of South African poetry and prose, edited by Arja Salafranca and Alan Finlay. Published by Jacana Media, 2003.

The fire in which we burn

The fire in which we burn
A collection of twenty-four poems by Arja Salafranca, published by Dye Hard Press in 2000.

A life stripped of illusions

A life stripped of illusions
Arja Salafranca's first poetry collection, published in 1994, with Tatamkhulu Afrika's Turning points. A life stripped of illusions won the 1994 Sanlam literary award for poetry.

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