STEPHEN SYMONS

Monday 07 September at 19:30 SAST

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Stephen Symons is a graphic designer and Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow at the University of Pretoria. He holds an MA in Creative Writing (UCT) and a PhD in History (UP). Symons’ poetry collections (Questions for the Sea, 2016 & Landscapes of Light and Loss, 2018) and short stories have been published locally and internationally. He was short-listed for the American Hudson Prize for Poetry (2015), Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry (2017) and the Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry (2018). His third collection, For Everything that Perfect and Pointless will be published toward the close of 2020. He lives with his family in Oranjezicht, Cape Town.

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GAIREYAH FREDERICKS

Monday 31 August at 19:30 SAST

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Gaireyah has self-published 7 collections of her poems and stories, participated in all our local literary festivals and won awards as Best Actress and for Best Script in local drama competitions. She was runner-up in the Afrikaans category of the 2018 AVBOB Poetry Competition nationwide and she won the Nal'ibali Story Bosso children's storytelling competition provincially. The Wellington Station festival has honoured her for her contribution in developing Kaaps. She just obtained her BA Honours Afrikaans at UWC.

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MIKE COPE

Monday 24 August at 19:30 SAST

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Michael Cope was born in 1952. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his family. He works as a designer jeweller. He has published three novels, three books of poems, a memoir and, most recently, a book of miniature paintings.

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