Invitations

Enjoy a bit of literary fun with All About Writing and Slow Life at our creative writing workshop at Casa Labia in Muizenberg. Be inspired by the cry of gulls as you release your creativity, [...]

The creative writing workshop will be of equal benefit to more experienced writers wanting to augment their skills, and to those with no experience at all, who are looking for a place to start.

A year or two ago, I was approached at a book fair by a woman with an American accent. She told me a story I can’t resist sharing. Some twenty years back, while visiting London, Carole picked up [...]

In 1996 my first novel, The Innocence of Roast Chicken, appeared – and changed my life. Its success took me completely by surprise. The book shot to number one in South Africa in the week it was [...]

Enjoy a bit of literary fun with All About Writing and Slow Life at our creative writing workshop at Casa Labia in Muizenberg. Be inspired by the cry of gulls as you release your creativity, [...]

Venice is always full of surprises. When we opened the lists for our first two-week-long retreat, back in January, we had no idea that we’d fill every vacancy within a month. That was our first [...]

You love the movies. You love the glamour, the action, the excitement, the tears, the laughter, and the sheer thrill of inhabiting alternate worlds. But most of all, you love the [...]

You are invited to a free webinar on Story, on 13 May at 18h00 South African time (GMT+2). Story is the essential component of any piece of writing – fiction or non-fiction, for page or screen. [...]

Explore the mysteries and the craft of creating story with a group of like-minded souls in that most charming of Cotswold market towns, Stow-on-the-Wold. Far from our everyday preoccupations and [...]

When Peter Benchley first visited Venice, he wrote to his editor at the New Yorker: “Streets full of water. Please advise”. Venice has both fascinated and repelled writers for centuries, and [...]