First up, a few Catalyst events coming your way in the next few weeks! Tomorrow, Saturday 25th at 9am EST (15:00 South Africa time), join The Theory of Flight author Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu as she chats with the Harare Book Club, by joining live on Twitter and Instagram @hararebookclub. And mark your calendars for 10:00pm EST on October 3rd, when Siphiwe will be participating in the Who? New! panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Also tomorrow: from 10am to 1pm UK time (11:00 to 14:00 in South Africa, or 5am to 8am EST for our early birds in the USA!), join Divine Justice author Joanne Hichens as she cohosts a Crime Writing Workshop on Zoom. Can’t do the live session? The self-pace version will be available on All About Writing‘s website starting September 28th.
Finally, we’re so thrilled to see our very own Catalyst Press publicist, Ashawnta Jackson, on the front page of Crime Reads today, with her fascinating piece on how depictions of women in murder ballads illuminate the history of gender-based violence.
In book awards news, the 2021 National Book Awards longlist, the Cundill History Prize shortlist, and the 2021 Kids’ Book Choice Awards finalists were all announced this week. And ICYMI, the Booker shortlist was released last week, and features Damon Galgut from South Africa! Continue reading “This Week in Literary News: Week of September 19”