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New #OBF2024 episodes dropping! Starting today with Colonialism & Fracture Coming Thursday: The Absent & The Present Watch via YouTube or listen on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts #OpenBookFestival #CapeTown #LiteraryTalks #SouthAfricanLiterature #LiteraryPodcast

Flash writing workshop with Kerry Hammerton -- fiction and creative non-fiction. Venue: Bertha House, 67 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town Date: 23 November 2024 Time: 10.00 AM - 2.00 PM

This is special beyond simple words, but I want to pause to acknowledge this moment: Nadine Gordimer's short stories brought me to South Africa in 2004. Dawn Garisch's stories made me want to become a publisher. And now this recognition. The stars have aligned. Thank you.

Please join us at The Book Lounge for a celebration of Andrew Brown’s The Bitterness of Olives, winner of the 2024 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. karavanpress.com/2024/11/13/cel…

Celebrating our very first winner, and her novel Glass Tower: Sarah Isaacs. A quick look back at the journey of Glass Tower since its publication. #authorslife #islandprize #books #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #africanliterature #readingcommunity #bookstagrammer

We have big news 👀 here is our (not so) shortlist for our 2024 Book of the Year! We will be announcing the winner on December 1st so keep your eyes peeled 🤩

The The Book Lounge Book of the Year Shortlist! 😍

My short story collection ‘Love Stories for Ghosts’ is shortlisted for The Book Lounge Book of the Year!

DAYSPRING by C. J. (Jonty) Driver is Lyndall Gordon's pick for Book of the Year (The New Statesman)! newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

Skrywersaand with Diane Awerbuck, Karen Jennings and Alex Latimer, 21 November, 2024, Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch karavanpress.com/2024/11/18/skr…

Celebrating another winner from the Island Prize's first year, and his novel Sand Roses: Hamza Koudri. A quick look back at the journey of Sand Roses since its publication.

#BookOfTheWeek 08h30 #SAfmJSB Michelle Constant Andrew Brown #TheBitternessOfOlives Karavan Press

📍🗓️ Join us at EB Cavendish Square for a book launch for the new edition of a cherished novel, The Good Cemetery Guide by Consuelo Roland. Karavan Press Consuelo Roland 📩 RSVP here: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events?e…

Happening today! Calling all Aspiring African Writers! Join us for The African Writer’s Handbook series, hosted by Brittle Paper’s Writing Room and The Island Prize. The topic is SUBMITTING TO PUBLISHERs AND WHAT TO EXPECT. This event is FREE and open to writers across Africa.

Super excited and happy to share that my first fiction story has been published by Karavan Press in this year’s anthology! Copies are hot off the press and will be available in South African bookstores (and I’ll find out about online). Yay!!!

The Booker Prizes From the author of An Island, a 2021 Booker longlistee, Crooked Seeds 🌱

💫 2024: A Good Year. 🗒️ One of my ESPNcricinfo long form pieces was longlisted for an award. 🏏 SA made THREE finals. 🧘‍♀️ I taught at two yoga schools. 📚 I published an academic essay Race and Yoga and a fiction story on Karavan Press. 😻We added a member to our cat family.

That’s a wrap on 2024 ✨ thank you for your incredible support over this year, we are endlessly grateful for this community! #bookstore #bookcommunity #reading #capetown