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About Botsotso

Botsotso is a grouping of poets, writers and artists who wish to both create art as well as to generate the means for its public exposure and appreciation. We speak particularly of art that is of and about the varied cultures and life experiences of people in South Africa as expressed in the many languages spoken and written in our country.

Covers of Botsotso Publications

Botsotso is committed to a proliferation of styles and a multiplicity of themes and characters. Multidisciplinary art forms and performances are similarly embraced.

The transition from a closed, authoritarian society to a pluralistic and democratic one offers artists an opportunity to explore the truths of our inner and social lives with a freedom that has not existed before. Flowing from this, the consequences and lessons of Apartheid must still be examined while the challenges of the current period throw up their difficulties, their complexities.

Botsotso works with interaction: the different elements of the South African mosaic colliding, synthesizing - affected both by social forces and the individual's uniqueness.

Call for Short Story Submissions

Modjaji Books, the exciting new publisher for women in Southern Africa, is inviting submissions for its upcoming short story anthology. We want innovative stories that define the world from a woman’s perspective.

The topic for the anthology is “BED”. What does it mean to you? Memories of cosy bedtime stories, sterile beds in hospitals, or that sexy bed where a lover waits…

You tell us! We’re waiting to hear from you!

Send us your best, unpublished story before 31^st July, 2008 to modjaj@gmail.com

For more information about Modjaji Books check out http://modjaji.book.co.za

RULES

1. Stories should be between 3000 and 5000 words.

2. Stories should be unpublished.

3. The story should somehow involve the theme of BED.

4. All entrants must be women and citizens of a Southern African country (countries include: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Moçambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)

5. Entries should be sent by email only to modjaj@gmail.com.

6. The entry should have page numbers and the title of the story on each page.

7. The following details should be at the end of the story:

Full name of writer

Postal address

Email address

Telephone number

Short biography of not more than 300 words

8. Writers of selected stories will receive royalties and five author copies of the book.

9. Confirmation of receipt of story will be sent to all entrants.

Event: Conference 2008

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HUMANITIES

IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

presented jointly by the English Academy of Southern Africa, the South African Writers Association (SAWA), the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), the South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), Die Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, and the Institute for Children’s Literature; and in collaboration with Die Suid Afrikaanse vereninging vir algemene literatuur wetenskappe (SAVAL).

Hosts: Unisa School of Arts, Education, Languages and Communication

Venue: University of Pretoria Conference Centre

Dates: 22-25 June 2008

Conveners: Prof. Zodwa Motsa (Unisa) and Prof. Rosemary Gray (University of Pretoria)

THEME: LANGUAGE, THE CREATIVE ARTS AND THE MEDIA

The conference aims to provide a forum for serious debate and exchange within and across a triangular thematic framework. On a broad socio-political and cultural level, language, the creative arts and the media are linked in important ways to communal, national and geo-political identities, both within Southern Africa and throughout the world. Understanding the complex and rapidly-evolving ways in which such identities are constructed and function poses an exciting and exacting challenge.

Participants are invited to address single or multiple thematic strands, within or across academic disciplines. For details of proposed themes, please contact the office or visit the Web site on www.englishacademy.co.za. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January (late applications may be accepted).

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