Celebrating Short Story Day at the Cape Town Book Fair

Rachel Zadok (author of Gem Squash Tokoloshe and organiser of Short Story Day Africa) and Colleen Higgs (author of the short story collection, Looking for Trouble and publisher at Modjaji Books) will chat to Arja Salafranca (poet, journalist, and author of short story collection The Thin Line) about Short Story Day Africa at the Cape Town Book Fair on Friday, June 15 2012... Read more here

Writers Talk Short Fiction with Ben Williams at the Cape Town Book Fair

Ben Williams, editor of BOOK SA, led a panel discussion at the Cape Town Book Fair about the reading and writing of short stories between local authors and BOOK SA members Henrietta Rose-Innes (Homing), Arja Salafranca (The Thin Line), Sarah Lotz and Meg Vandermerwe (This Place I Call Home). Noticeably absent from the panel was Louis Greenberg, editor of the collection Home Away, who was unable to attend this year’s fair...Read more here

The Thin Line on display at Modjaji Books' stand at the Cape Town Book Fair 2010

Where the story begins: Cape Town Book Fair 2010

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At the Cape Town Book Fair 2010

Asking a question at a discussion on South African chick-lit at the 2010 Cape Town Book Fair.
Photo: Maire Fisher