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Jenn, Rozenn, and LeAnne Jenn walking up the big hill Paddy and Joan cheer other delegates Phylis, LeAnne and Sindiwe on a walk to the hill above Goudini Carol recording an event Rozenne, Phylis and LeAnne at dinner

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For coverage of the SCBWI Retreat, click on the title above. It'll take you to brief reports on: From story board to published book: How to find your own way in the world of publishing - a talk by international literary agent Susanne Koppe. Blank page to under a child's pillow: the creative process - a talk by Editorial Director, Picture/Gift Books, Macmillan Children's Books, UK, Suzanne

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For some tips regarding Book Design discussed at an SCBWI meeting in Cape Town, click on the title above.

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Fantasi Books/Boeke has a great opportunity for writers to create ghost stories. Click on the title above for more information. Also, see the link to Fantasi Books in the Websites of Interest below right.

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Reviva Schermbrucker facilitated a wonderful writing course for Gauteng writers in March 2008.

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For the winners of the 1999-2001, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007, click on the title above.

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Nombulelo Baba has taken over as Project Co-ordinator for the Children's Literature Programme at the Centre for the Book from Colleen Higgs who resigned at the end of February. For more information, click on the title or visit http://www.nlsa.ac.za/NLSA/centreforthebook

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Cash prizes for the best five stories. Click on the title above for details.

Jennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5886065937831083029.post-19282422457247996162008-03-27T18:10:00.000+02:002008-03-27T18:11:07.937+02:00

Cape Town Book Fair, 2008 The Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA), and the organisers of the Frankfurt (European) Book Fair will be organising the Third International Book Fair in Cape Town, (June 14-17, 2008). SCBWI SA has already been allocated a stand and we are working with the organisers to plan their “Kids Zone” and the Pin Board area like in 2007. We plan to provide the

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Have you ever wondered what you should be charging for illustrating? SAFREA (Southern African Freelancers' Association) suggests some minimum rates. These can be accessed at: http://www.safrea.co.za/. For the rates suggested in 2007/2008, click on the Title above.

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Colleen Higgs left the Centre for the Book at the end of February 2008. She developed a Resource list over her years working there and shared this with the e-group before leaving to start Modjaji Books. Her list is very valuable and can be accessed at http://scbwi-za-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/resources-for-writers-in-sa-compiled-by.htm

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For the full programme and costs of the Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Retreat at Goudini Spa from May 5-9 2008, see http://sa-writers-illustrators.blogspot.com or click on the Title above. This is a wonderful opportunity, NOT TO BE MISSED!

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On 28 February 2008, at the Sandton Public Library, Judith Inggs delivered a paper, The Multiple Images of South African Adolescents as reflected in Youth Literature. Judith explored the ways in which South African writers make use of language and focalisation to construct their adolescent characters. She analysed a number of South African young adult novels in order to establish

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SCBWI Gauteng thoroughly enjoyed meeting Maryanne and Shayle Bester at the event on 28 February at Sandton Public Library. Maryanne and Shayle spoke about writing and illustrating their books for children, namely Three friends and a taxi, The cool Nguni (for which they received the Exclusive Books IBBY award) and The long trousers. They also read the texts of the first two books

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Nominations awaited for the Katrine Harries Award for Children's Book Illustrations The Katrine Harries Award, originally the only and most prestigious award in South Africa for children's book illustrations, but which has been dormant for the past ten years, will again be awarded from this year. For the complete article, click on the title above.

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At the SCBWI meeting held on Tuesday 20 November 2007 at UNISA Penny Hochfeld discussed the Exclusive Books IBBY SA Awards. Exclusive Books, in association with IBBY S.A., has taken on the sponsorship of the award for the best original children's picture book or illustrated children's story book published in South Africa. For the EXCLUSIVE BOOKS IBBY SA AWARD for 2007, they invited submissions

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IBBY SA has drawn up 100 Representative South African Books for Children and Young People • The books are recognisably African in character. • The authors and illustrators are South Africans, or non-South Africans living and working in South Africa. • The books are in print. • The books are mentioned in the list in the language in which they were originally written. Many titles have been

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At the SCBWI meeting of 20 November 2007, Nicoline Wessels and Hannalie Knoetze, lecturers at UNISA, shared some of the results of their research on the reading patterns of township children. Many University lecturers have noticed the poor reading skills of their first year students and suggest that these are approximately on a grade 8 level. This means that some first-year university

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Reviva Schermbrucker will be presenting a Writing Course in Johannesburg from 10 to 14 March 2008. See right-hand side for course details and how to register. Born in Israel in 1954, Reviva arrived with her family in South Africa aged 5 and a half. Reviva became a South African in Johannesburg in the 60’s. After matriculating, she attended WITS (the University of Witwatersrand) and began a Fine

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CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF AFRICAN CHILDREN'S & YOUTH LITERATURE (JACYL) Editor:Osayimwense Osa Associate Editors: Betsie van der Westhuizen, North West University, South Africa Chikoko Muponder, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa The Journal African Children's & Youth Literature invites contributions from Children*s and Youth Literature theorists, practitioners, scholars and

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IBBY SA has announced that the following books have been selected as IBBY SA’s Honour List to be presented at the IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen in 2008 as having made a significant contribution to recent South African literature for children and young people: Author: Afrikaans Jaco Jacobs: Suurlemoen (LAPA Uit-gewers, Pretoria, 2006) Jaco Jacobs het hier daarin geslaag om op oortuigende

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The Katrine Harries Award, originally the only and most prestigious award in South Africa for children's book illustrations, but which had been dormant for the past nine years, will soon be awarded again. Protea Boekhuis has kindly agreed to sponsor the Award on a continuous basis.The award that was made for the first time in the early 1960's by the SA Library Association and later the South

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Exclusive Books will be presenting the IBBY award on 11 September 2007. They have decided to sponsor this award to: - nurture a love of reading in children from an early age, - recognise the best South African children’s story-book writers and illustrators - recognize local writing talent and illustrating, and - encourage more South African authors and publishers to develop this important

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UPDATE: 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature - 17 - 20 September 2007, North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa Conference theme: Writing (on) South African Children’s Literature The full conference programme is now available and included below. REGISTRATION: The details for registration can be found on the conference website at the following

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The first Franschhoek Literary Festival in early May drew an estimated 2 000 readers. Readers, writers, media and book clubs strolled through the village interacting with 30 authors, poets and publishers in lively informal discussions, signings, fundraisers, talks, breakfasts, dinners and over drinks. The dates for next year are 16 - 18 May 2008 and the very generous sponsorship of the Delta

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