FeedUwem Akpan and Zakes Mda to Headline the 2010 Time of the Writer
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts is back with the 13th Time of the Writer (TOW) festival this 9-13 March, and with some big news: TOW has confirmed to BOOK SA that Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan, author of the Oprah Book Club-selected Say You’re One of Them, and Zakes Mda, author most recently of Black Diamond, are its headline acts this year.
We first sniffed out the news in this piece from Sally Scott, then contacted the CCA to confirm:
Break out the pen and all that boundless creativity: UKZN’s Centre for Creative Artists is hosting the 13th Time of the Writer international writers’ festival next month, and if you are a student, and quick about it, there is still time to enter the short story competition.
The good news is that funding from the Department of Arts and Culture (and other sponsors) has been forthcoming once again and, as usual, some excellent writers are being “locked down” (visas and such being sorted out) for the five-day festival. The bad news is that this year the festival has been cut by one day.
The full lineup of TOW 2010 writers will be announced by the CCA later this week. Watch that space!
Book details
- Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
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EAN: 9780349120645
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- Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
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EAN: 9780143026198
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