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On this blog you will find:
* articles about writing and illustrating Children's Books
* information about the society and its members
* information about activities
* links to websites and blogs about Children's Books
Enjoy!
* articles about writing and illustrating Children's Books
* information about the society and its members
* information about activities
* links to websites and blogs about Children's Books
Enjoy!
About SCBWI
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, formed in 1971 by a group of Los Angeles based writers for children, is the only international organization to offer a variety of services to people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children’s literature. The SCBWI acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people. There are currently more than 19,000 members worldwide, in over 70 regions, making it the largest children's writing organization in the world.
12 October, 2009
Next really BIG event
Exhibition by Illustrators and Writers of Children’s Books
University of Pretoria
Opening Function: 3 November 2009 15:00
Venue: Edoardo Villa Gallery (Old Merensky Building 19)
Daily visiting hours: 4-10 November 2009 10:00 - 16:00
Alliance Francaise
Opening Function: 12 November 2009 19:15 for 19:30
Venue: 19 Rivier St (cnr de Kock) Sunnyside
Daily visiting hours: 13-27 November 2009 08:30 - 19:30 (Mon - Thurs)
08:30 - 13:00 (Fri)
09:00 - 12:30 (Sat)
Exhibitors: Kalle Becker, Maryanne and Shayle Bester, Paddy Bouma, Je’Anna Clements, Hazel Cuthbertson, Carol Davies, Yvette de Beer, Julia du Plessis, Wendy Hartman, Jenny Hatton, Jenn Hurlin, Derrick Hurlin, Themba Mabaso, Rob Owen, Louise Prinsloo, Marelise Prinsloo, Elizabeth Pulles, Joan Rankin, Maja Sereda, Nalini Pillay, Chantelle Thorne, Rozenn Torquebiau, Marjorie van Heerden, Samantha van Riet, Adelle van Zyl, Marlene (Paddy) Visser
Illustrators’ workshop: How to draw children: an in-depth look at children of different ages and how their bodies change
Presenter: Marjorie van Heerden
Date: 4 November 2009
Time: 10:00 —15:00
Venue: Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
Cost: Non SCBWI Members R150 & SCBWI Members R100.00
RSVP: Booking is essential!
To book, please e-mail SCBWI.Gauteng@mweb.co.za before 26/10/09. NB! Put How to draw children in the e-mail subject line
Description: This will be a PowerPoint presentation on how to draw children with an emphasis on illustrating children’s books. This is not a practical workshop, but an informal, interactive lecture-based workshop. It is, however, important that you bring your sketch books and drawing material along because during the workshop the presenter will give the attendees time to try out various points she talks about.
Marjorie van Heerden is an award-winning children’s book writer and illustrator. She will give a step-by-step look at the structure of a child’s body and show how their bodies change from that of a new-born baby to that of a young adult of 16. She will discuss a child’s physical and mental development and how one can incorporate this into drawing the child. She will also show the process she follows in the creation of a child character for a picture book.
The workshop is aimed at published and unpublished illustrators and writer/illustrators of picture books. Although it is specifically aimed at illustrators, the course could also be benefit authors of illustrated and picture books.
Marjorie will end the workshop by looking at a selection of different illustrators of children’s picture books and analyse the way they draw children. This workshop will be a definite source of inspiration for the writer/illustrator. It was presented at the SCBWI Writers and Illustrators’ Retreat held in March 2008. This new workshop, incorporating more time, will be more comprehensive.
Note: For More information about the presenter visit her website at www.Grafikon.co.za
Programme of Children’s workshops Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
10:30 Listen to a story Grades 2 - 4 (45-60 minutes) Joan Rankin
11:30 Listen to an adventure story Grades 5-7 (60-90 minutes) Chantelle Thorne
12:00 Using a writing model to write Grades 7-9 (30-45 minutes) Nalini Sooknanan Pillay
14:30 Write and illustrate a story Grades 7-9 (30-45 minutes) Rob Owen
10:30 Reading and illustrating stories Grades 1-2 (30 minutes) Jenny Hatton and Shayle Bester
11:30 Let’s be creative Grades 3-4 (1 hour divided into 2 sessions) Yvette de Beer
11:30 Illustrate a story Grades 5-7 (60 minutes) Julia du Plessis
14:30 The basics of storytelling Grades 9-12 (2 hours) Derrick Hurlin
14:30 How an illustrator works Grades 9-12 (45-60 minutes) Chantelle Thorne
These workshops are free of charge but Booking is essential.
Thank you to the University of Pretoria and Alliance Francaise for allowing us to use their venues free of charge. Thank you to Lapa Uitgewers, Jacana Media, Macmillan and Maskew Miller Longman for their sponsorship. Thank you to Die Sonkasteel for bringing our books to the public.
University of Pretoria
Opening Function: 3 November 2009 15:00
Venue: Edoardo Villa Gallery (Old Merensky Building 19)
Daily visiting hours: 4-10 November 2009 10:00 - 16:00
Alliance Francaise
Opening Function: 12 November 2009 19:15 for 19:30
Venue: 19 Rivier St (cnr de Kock) Sunnyside
Daily visiting hours: 13-27 November 2009 08:30 - 19:30 (Mon - Thurs)
08:30 - 13:00 (Fri)
09:00 - 12:30 (Sat)
Exhibitors: Kalle Becker, Maryanne and Shayle Bester, Paddy Bouma, Je’Anna Clements, Hazel Cuthbertson, Carol Davies, Yvette de Beer, Julia du Plessis, Wendy Hartman, Jenny Hatton, Jenn Hurlin, Derrick Hurlin, Themba Mabaso, Rob Owen, Louise Prinsloo, Marelise Prinsloo, Elizabeth Pulles, Joan Rankin, Maja Sereda, Nalini Pillay, Chantelle Thorne, Rozenn Torquebiau, Marjorie van Heerden, Samantha van Riet, Adelle van Zyl, Marlene (Paddy) Visser
Illustrators’ workshop: How to draw children: an in-depth look at children of different ages and how their bodies change
Presenter: Marjorie van Heerden
Date: 4 November 2009
Time: 10:00 —15:00
Venue: Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
Cost: Non SCBWI Members R150 & SCBWI Members R100.00
RSVP: Booking is essential!
To book, please e-mail SCBWI.Gauteng@mweb.co.za before 26/10/09. NB! Put How to draw children in the e-mail subject line
Description: This will be a PowerPoint presentation on how to draw children with an emphasis on illustrating children’s books. This is not a practical workshop, but an informal, interactive lecture-based workshop. It is, however, important that you bring your sketch books and drawing material along because during the workshop the presenter will give the attendees time to try out various points she talks about.
Marjorie van Heerden is an award-winning children’s book writer and illustrator. She will give a step-by-step look at the structure of a child’s body and show how their bodies change from that of a new-born baby to that of a young adult of 16. She will discuss a child’s physical and mental development and how one can incorporate this into drawing the child. She will also show the process she follows in the creation of a child character for a picture book.
The workshop is aimed at published and unpublished illustrators and writer/illustrators of picture books. Although it is specifically aimed at illustrators, the course could also be benefit authors of illustrated and picture books.
Marjorie will end the workshop by looking at a selection of different illustrators of children’s picture books and analyse the way they draw children. This workshop will be a definite source of inspiration for the writer/illustrator. It was presented at the SCBWI Writers and Illustrators’ Retreat held in March 2008. This new workshop, incorporating more time, will be more comprehensive.
Note: For More information about the presenter visit her website at www.Grafikon.co.za
Programme of Children’s workshops Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
10:30 Listen to a story Grades 2 - 4 (45-60 minutes) Joan Rankin
11:30 Listen to an adventure story Grades 5-7 (60-90 minutes) Chantelle Thorne
12:00 Using a writing model to write Grades 7-9 (30-45 minutes) Nalini Sooknanan Pillay
14:30 Write and illustrate a story Grades 7-9 (30-45 minutes) Rob Owen
10:30 Reading and illustrating stories Grades 1-2 (30 minutes) Jenny Hatton and Shayle Bester
11:30 Let’s be creative Grades 3-4 (1 hour divided into 2 sessions) Yvette de Beer
11:30 Illustrate a story Grades 5-7 (60 minutes) Julia du Plessis
14:30 The basics of storytelling Grades 9-12 (2 hours) Derrick Hurlin
14:30 How an illustrator works Grades 9-12 (45-60 minutes) Chantelle Thorne
These workshops are free of charge but Booking is essential.
Thank you to the University of Pretoria and Alliance Francaise for allowing us to use their venues free of charge. Thank you to Lapa Uitgewers, Jacana Media, Macmillan and Maskew Miller Longman for their sponsorship. Thank you to Die Sonkasteel for bringing our books to the public.
15 August, 2009
Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
Please support this exciting conference on:
Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
Date: 20-21 August 2009
Venue: University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Time: 8:30 - end of day
For the programme, see: http://www.childlit.org.za/conference.html
A group will be going through from Johannesburg. If you’d like to share transport, please email SCBWI.Gauteng@MWeb.co.za
You can still register for this event. There are some really interesting talks as well as workshops.
Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
Date: 20-21 August 2009
Venue: University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Time: 8:30 - end of day
For the programme, see: http://www.childlit.org.za/conference.html
A group will be going through from Johannesburg. If you’d like to share transport, please email SCBWI.Gauteng@MWeb.co.za
You can still register for this event. There are some really interesting talks as well as workshops.
Labels:
Conferences,
Reading Promotion,
Storytelling
03 August, 2009
Writing for child and adolescent markets
Dr Donna Wyckoff-Wheeler will offer a 7-week module on WRITING FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MARKETS.
The module will begin on August 6 and continue through September 24 (no class, September 3), and will deal with analysis, writing practice and marketing opportunities in the basic genres of children’s literature. A module fee of R1250 is payable after the first class.
CLASS TIMES AND VENUE: Thursdays, 18h00-20h00, in the Upper Hall, ST COLUMBA’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 45 LURGAN AVENUE, PARKVIEW
REGISTRATION: To register for the module, please email Name and Contact Details to:
Email: dwy-wheeler@mweb.co.za or contact Donna at numbers below.
For More information:
Phone: 011-646-9126
Cell: 083-504-5010
Dr Donna Wyckoff-Wheeler (Ohio State Univ) specialises in literary composition. She has taught various writing courses and appeared on a number of radio and TV programmes in the USA, Canada and South Africa as a storyteller.
The module will begin on August 6 and continue through September 24 (no class, September 3), and will deal with analysis, writing practice and marketing opportunities in the basic genres of children’s literature. A module fee of R1250 is payable after the first class.
CLASS TIMES AND VENUE: Thursdays, 18h00-20h00, in the Upper Hall, ST COLUMBA’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 45 LURGAN AVENUE, PARKVIEW
REGISTRATION: To register for the module, please email Name and Contact Details to:
Email: dwy-wheeler@mweb.co.za or contact Donna at numbers below.
For More information:
Phone: 011-646-9126
Cell: 083-504-5010
Dr Donna Wyckoff-Wheeler (Ohio State Univ) specialises in literary composition. She has taught various writing courses and appeared on a number of radio and TV programmes in the USA, Canada and South Africa as a storyteller.
Labels:
Writing Children's Books,
Writing courses
27 July, 2009
School visits
For information on a new register of authors and illustrators being created in the UK, see this article.
Kids Literature Quiz
The 6th annual Kids Lit Quiz™ is a major international literature competition where teams of students work together to answer wide-ranging literary questions. Exclusive Books is pleased to announce their sponsorship of the quiz for the fourth year and will be providing book vouchers and cash prizes to the winning teams.
The Kids' Lit Quiz, dubbed the Olympic Games of Reading, aims to motivate children and young people to read for pleasure and develop the habit of sustained reading by offering them irresistible reading challenges and enormous fun with a competitive element and great team-building opportunities. It is open to all schools with Year 5, 6 or 7 students.
Wayne Mills, a senior lecturer in Children’s literature at the Auckland college of Education will be testing the students. The students will work in teams of four and will be expected to collaboratively answer 100 questions arranged in ten categories.
Regional heats will be held in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg from 27th July – 30th July 2009. The national finals will be conducted at the Rosebank Exclusive Books on 1st August and for the first time ever the world finals will be held in South Africa on the 3rd August 2009 at Constitutional Hill. Please see below for venue details.
For more information or to obtain an EB Kids’ Lit Quiz™ information pack (it includes 50 pretest questions) contact Marj Brown, The South African National Coordinator, on 011 782 3971/ 084 636 2998 or email her at m.brown@cobwebinfo.co.za, also please feel free to visit www.kidslitquiz.com.
Dates and contact details
Johannesburg 30 July, 2:30 to 5:30pm, De La Salle, Victory Park
Contact: Marj Brown, m.brown@cobwebinfo.co.za
The National Final:
Event: Kids Lit Quiz National Finals
Date: Saturday 1 August
Time: 1 to 3pm
Venue: Exclusive Books Rosebank Mall
The World Finals will be held on the 3rd August at Constitution Hill Court
The Kids' Lit Quiz, dubbed the Olympic Games of Reading, aims to motivate children and young people to read for pleasure and develop the habit of sustained reading by offering them irresistible reading challenges and enormous fun with a competitive element and great team-building opportunities. It is open to all schools with Year 5, 6 or 7 students.
Wayne Mills, a senior lecturer in Children’s literature at the Auckland college of Education will be testing the students. The students will work in teams of four and will be expected to collaboratively answer 100 questions arranged in ten categories.
Regional heats will be held in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg from 27th July – 30th July 2009. The national finals will be conducted at the Rosebank Exclusive Books on 1st August and for the first time ever the world finals will be held in South Africa on the 3rd August 2009 at Constitutional Hill. Please see below for venue details.
For more information or to obtain an EB Kids’ Lit Quiz™ information pack (it includes 50 pretest questions) contact Marj Brown, The South African National Coordinator, on 011 782 3971/ 084 636 2998 or email her at m.brown@cobwebinfo.co.za, also please feel free to visit www.kidslitquiz.com.
Dates and contact details
Johannesburg 30 July, 2:30 to 5:30pm, De La Salle, Victory Park
Contact: Marj Brown, m.brown@cobwebinfo.co.za
The National Final:
Event: Kids Lit Quiz National Finals
Date: Saturday 1 August
Time: 1 to 3pm
Venue: Exclusive Books Rosebank Mall
The World Finals will be held on the 3rd August at Constitution Hill Court
Labels:
Competitions,
Reading Promotion,
Young Adult Books
08 June, 2009
SCBWI Bologna Conference and Showcase at the Bologna Book Fair
SCBWI International will host a Conference and put up an SCBWI Booth at the Fair.
Bologna 2010 will feature a one-day conference and 3.5 days of the SCBWI Bologna Showcase at the Bologna Book Fair. Both events will give you an opportunity to mingle with editors, art directors, publishers and authors and illustrators in a close, intimate setting for the conference, and then branch out and see what's being published around the world during the Bologna Children's Book Fair -- it's a great experience.
The conference is March 21st, and the Fair is March 22-25th.
Bologna 2010 will feature a one-day conference and 3.5 days of the SCBWI Bologna Showcase at the Bologna Book Fair. Both events will give you an opportunity to mingle with editors, art directors, publishers and authors and illustrators in a close, intimate setting for the conference, and then branch out and see what's being published around the world during the Bologna Children's Book Fair -- it's a great experience.
The conference is March 21st, and the Fair is March 22-25th.
On-line writing course by Janie Oosthuysen at Skryfgeheime.co.za
Skryfgeheime - van idee tot publikasie - for more information see www.skryfgeheime.co.za
DIE TIEN-MODULE-PLAN
MODULE 1: Uitgewers en storie-idees
Die Afrikaanse kinderboekwêreld
Waarom moet ek hierdie kursus doen?
Meer oor uitgewers
Hoe lyk ’n suksesvolle kinderboek?
Die kind se sielkundige leesbehoeftes
Waar kry ek idees?
Werkstukke:
1. Doen ’n taak oor die skryf van kort sinne
2. Skryf ’n Littelosmaker
MODULE 2: Suksesvolle storielyne
’n Reeks gebeurtenisse
Verslaan-die-monster
Die Aspoestertjie-verhaal
Die Heen-en-terug-verhaal
Die Soektog of Sending
Hoe affekteer ’n storie die leser?
Vertrekpunte: Hoe ontstaan ’n storie?
Werkstukke:
1. Begin skryf karaktersketse
2. Begin ontwikkel jou storie-idee
3. Doen Vertaaltaak 1
MODULE 3: Dinamiese karakters
Die hoofkarakter in mý lewe
Opwindende storieboekkarakters
Die geheime van Harry Potter
Hoofkarakters is helde, nie lamsakke nie
Begin skep jou eie karakters
Benut die Karakterkaart
Werkstukke:
1. Voltooi twee Karakterkaarte
2. Doen Vertaaltaak 2
MODULE 4: Die Storie-uitbouer
Voorwaardes vir ’n suksesvolle intrige
Die bou van ’n storie
Die Storie-geraamte
Die 5-minuut-metode
Die Storie-uitbouer
Werkstukke:
1. Voltooi die Storie-geraamte
2. Voltooi die Storie-uitbouer
MODULE 5: Waar en wie?
Waar op die aardbol is die karakters?
Skep ’n eie wêreld
Die Plekkaart
Wat is gesigspunt?
Die beste karakter vir ’n spesifieke gesigspunt
Die eerstepersoonsverteller
Die alwetende verteller
Die derdepersoonsverteller
Werkstuk:
Skryf een hoofstuk met klem op gesigspunt MODULE 6: ’n Sterk begin
Voorwaardes vir ’n sterk begin
Drie voorbeelde van ’n sterk begin
Nog ’n sterk begin
Weet jy steeds nie waar om te begin
nie?
Begin skryf die BEGIN
Toets die begin met ses vonkvrae
Werkstukke:
1. Analiseer ’n begin
2. Skryf die begin van jou verhaal
MODULE 7: “Praat mense so?”
“Praat mense so?”
Sewe voorwaardes vir goeie dialoog
Die sleutel tot goeie dialoog
Geslagsverskille en dialoog
Direkte en indirekte dialoog
TOETS jou dialoog
Werkstuk:
Skryf een hoofstuk met klem op
dialoog
MODULE 8: Gee die middel lyf
Boeke vir alle ouderdomsgroepe
Hoofstukke, tonele en paragrawe
Wat is stimulus-en-reaksie?
Die middel van jou verhaal
Lekker ou konflik
Begin skryf die MIDDEL
Wat van skrywersblok?
TOETS die middel
Werkstuk:
Skryf die middel van jou verhaal
MODULE 9: Kikker die vaal kolle op
Gebruik vier treffertegnieke:
• Wys en/of vertel
• Die geheime van lyftaal
• Humor
• Die Flitslig-metode
Die einde van jou verhaal
Toets die einde met vyf vonkvrae
Ruk jou storie reg
Op soek na TEMA
Werkstukke:
1. Skryf die einde van jou verhaal
2. Voltooi die manuskrip en stuur dit in
vir ’n keurdersverslag
MODULE 10: Eerste indrukke
En jy het gedink jy’s klaar
Styg uit bo die massa
Kontak die regte uitgewer
Verstaan jou uitgewer
“Wat is mý regte?”
Hou jou boek aan die lewe
Die pad vorentoe …
Werkstuk:
Skryf ’n sinopsis en voorleggingsbrief
DIE TIEN-MODULE-PLAN
MODULE 1: Uitgewers en storie-idees
Die Afrikaanse kinderboekwêreld
Waarom moet ek hierdie kursus doen?
Meer oor uitgewers
Hoe lyk ’n suksesvolle kinderboek?
Die kind se sielkundige leesbehoeftes
Waar kry ek idees?
Werkstukke:
1. Doen ’n taak oor die skryf van kort sinne
2. Skryf ’n Littelosmaker
MODULE 2: Suksesvolle storielyne
’n Reeks gebeurtenisse
Verslaan-die-monster
Die Aspoestertjie-verhaal
Die Heen-en-terug-verhaal
Die Soektog of Sending
Hoe affekteer ’n storie die leser?
Vertrekpunte: Hoe ontstaan ’n storie?
Werkstukke:
1. Begin skryf karaktersketse
2. Begin ontwikkel jou storie-idee
3. Doen Vertaaltaak 1
MODULE 3: Dinamiese karakters
Die hoofkarakter in mý lewe
Opwindende storieboekkarakters
Die geheime van Harry Potter
Hoofkarakters is helde, nie lamsakke nie
Begin skep jou eie karakters
Benut die Karakterkaart
Werkstukke:
1. Voltooi twee Karakterkaarte
2. Doen Vertaaltaak 2
MODULE 4: Die Storie-uitbouer
Voorwaardes vir ’n suksesvolle intrige
Die bou van ’n storie
Die Storie-geraamte
Die 5-minuut-metode
Die Storie-uitbouer
Werkstukke:
1. Voltooi die Storie-geraamte
2. Voltooi die Storie-uitbouer
MODULE 5: Waar en wie?
Waar op die aardbol is die karakters?
Skep ’n eie wêreld
Die Plekkaart
Wat is gesigspunt?
Die beste karakter vir ’n spesifieke gesigspunt
Die eerstepersoonsverteller
Die alwetende verteller
Die derdepersoonsverteller
Werkstuk:
Skryf een hoofstuk met klem op gesigspunt MODULE 6: ’n Sterk begin
Voorwaardes vir ’n sterk begin
Drie voorbeelde van ’n sterk begin
Nog ’n sterk begin
Weet jy steeds nie waar om te begin
nie?
Begin skryf die BEGIN
Toets die begin met ses vonkvrae
Werkstukke:
1. Analiseer ’n begin
2. Skryf die begin van jou verhaal
MODULE 7: “Praat mense so?”
“Praat mense so?”
Sewe voorwaardes vir goeie dialoog
Die sleutel tot goeie dialoog
Geslagsverskille en dialoog
Direkte en indirekte dialoog
TOETS jou dialoog
Werkstuk:
Skryf een hoofstuk met klem op
dialoog
MODULE 8: Gee die middel lyf
Boeke vir alle ouderdomsgroepe
Hoofstukke, tonele en paragrawe
Wat is stimulus-en-reaksie?
Die middel van jou verhaal
Lekker ou konflik
Begin skryf die MIDDEL
Wat van skrywersblok?
TOETS die middel
Werkstuk:
Skryf die middel van jou verhaal
MODULE 9: Kikker die vaal kolle op
Gebruik vier treffertegnieke:
• Wys en/of vertel
• Die geheime van lyftaal
• Humor
• Die Flitslig-metode
Die einde van jou verhaal
Toets die einde met vyf vonkvrae
Ruk jou storie reg
Op soek na TEMA
Werkstukke:
1. Skryf die einde van jou verhaal
2. Voltooi die manuskrip en stuur dit in
vir ’n keurdersverslag
MODULE 10: Eerste indrukke
En jy het gedink jy’s klaar
Styg uit bo die massa
Kontak die regte uitgewer
Verstaan jou uitgewer
“Wat is mý regte?”
Hou jou boek aan die lewe
Die pad vorentoe …
Werkstuk:
Skryf ’n sinopsis en voorleggingsbrief
Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
Announcement and call for papers
Seminar on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
20-21 August 2009
Venue: University of South Africa, Pretoria
Organised by the Department of Information Science of the University of South Africa and the Children’s Literature Research Unit of the Department.
We welcome abstracts (of not more than 250 words) that address particular issues regarding reading promotion for children and storytelling to children. The two issues will be addressed at two consecutive days.
Theoretical papers as well as more practical presentations about specific projects are welcome.
An evening event of storytelling will form part of the programme.
Due date for abstracts:
13 July 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made within one week.
The programme, information on accommodation, registration fee, as well as the registration form will be published on the webpage: http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/infsc
Mail abstracts and direct enquiries to:
Prof Thomas van der Walt, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, 0003 Pretoria, South Africa
Fax: +27 12 4293792
e-mail: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za
Seminar on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children
20-21 August 2009
Venue: University of South Africa, Pretoria
Organised by the Department of Information Science of the University of South Africa and the Children’s Literature Research Unit of the Department.
We welcome abstracts (of not more than 250 words) that address particular issues regarding reading promotion for children and storytelling to children. The two issues will be addressed at two consecutive days.
Theoretical papers as well as more practical presentations about specific projects are welcome.
An evening event of storytelling will form part of the programme.
Due date for abstracts:
13 July 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made within one week.
The programme, information on accommodation, registration fee, as well as the registration form will be published on the webpage: http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/infsc
Mail abstracts and direct enquiries to:
Prof Thomas van der Walt, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, 0003 Pretoria, South Africa
Fax: +27 12 4293792
e-mail: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za
Workshop: Illustrate and write a Children's book for the Trade Market facilitated by Joan Rankin
Dates: Beginning Wednesday 27 May and continuing with three more workshops on dates to be agreed on by participants
Time: 10:00 -12:30
Where: Houghton, Johannesburg
Cost: For Non-members R500 per person
Cost: For SCBWI members R250 per person
Description: The course will comprise of four hands-on sessions:
1) Background and brainstorming session
2) Writing and illustrating stories
3) Discussion and feedback
4) Finalisation of books
No skills are needed. The emphasis will be on having fun and experimenting. Participants will receive guidance on writing and illustrating for children. These workshops will culminate in each person producing a book to be exhibited at the Exhibition to be held in November at the University of Pretoria and Alliance Francaise.
Joan Rankin’s experience comes from illustrating over forty children's books as well as writing some of them. In 1991 she won South Africa's most prestigious award for children's book illustrations, the Katrine Harries Award, for her illustrations in The Dancing Elephant; Ask for Patricia and The Twelve Days of Christmas.
50% Deposit to be paid by 22 May to secure your place
Bank: FNB
Type: Savings Account
Name: SCBWI
Branch: Melville 256505
Number: 62121041850
Please note that this series of workshops replaces the previously advertised course “Illustrating Children’s Books” which will be run at a future date.
Time: 10:00 -12:30
Where: Houghton, Johannesburg
Cost: For Non-members R500 per person
Cost: For SCBWI members R250 per person
Description: The course will comprise of four hands-on sessions:
1) Background and brainstorming session
2) Writing and illustrating stories
3) Discussion and feedback
4) Finalisation of books
No skills are needed. The emphasis will be on having fun and experimenting. Participants will receive guidance on writing and illustrating for children. These workshops will culminate in each person producing a book to be exhibited at the Exhibition to be held in November at the University of Pretoria and Alliance Francaise.
Joan Rankin’s experience comes from illustrating over forty children's books as well as writing some of them. In 1991 she won South Africa's most prestigious award for children's book illustrations, the Katrine Harries Award, for her illustrations in The Dancing Elephant; Ask for Patricia and The Twelve Days of Christmas.
50% Deposit to be paid by 22 May to secure your place
Bank: FNB
Type: Savings Account
Name: SCBWI
Branch: Melville 256505
Number: 62121041850
Please note that this series of workshops replaces the previously advertised course “Illustrating Children’s Books” which will be run at a future date.
Cape Town Book Fair 2009 - 13-16 June
Cape Town Book Fair 2009 - 13-16th June.
SCBWI SA will have a stand where SCBWI members can display their work. The aim is to assist South African writers and illustrators to make contact with representatives from international and local publishers coming to the Fair. For more information, click on the title above.
SCBWI SA will have a stand where SCBWI members can display their work. The aim is to assist South African writers and illustrators to make contact with representatives from international and local publishers coming to the Fair. For more information, click on the title above.
21 May, 2009
Draft Programme for Exhibition in November 2009
Exhibition by Illustrators and Writers of Children’s Books
The same exhibition will move from the University of Pretoria to Alliance Francaise in Pretoria. The focus of the exhibition is on how illustrators illustrate and writers write for children. Each exhibit will introduce an illustrator / explain how he or she works / tell how he or she illustrated or wrote a particular story. The exhibition at the Alliance Francaise will incorporate two days of workshops for school children.
Exhibition University of Pretoria
3 November 2009 15:00 Opening of Exhibition
Speakers:
Thomas van der Walt
Marjorie van Heerden
4-10 November 2009 10:00-17:00 Exhibition
Exhibition Alliance Francaise
12 November 2009 19:00 Opening of Exhibition
14-27 November 2009 10:00-17:00 Exhibition
Confirmed exhibitors
Kalle Becker
Maryanne and Shayle Bester
Paddy Bouma
Carol Davies
Yvette de Beer
Wendy Hartman
Jenny Hatton
Jenn Hurlin
Julia du Plessis
Themba Mabaso
Rob Owen
Louise Prinsloo
Marelise Prinsloo
Elizabeth Pulles
Joan Rankin
Maja Sereda
Nalini Sooknanan
Chantelle Thorne
Rozenn Torquebiau
Marjorie van Heerden
Samantha van Riet
Marlene Visser
Possible Children’s workshops
17-18 November 2009 10:00-15:00 Workshops for schools Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
17 November: Write and illustrate stories
10:00-11:30 Write and illustrate a story (Grades 8 and 9) Rob Owen
10:00-11:30 Let’s be creative (Grades 3,4) Yvette de Beer
12:00-13:00 Listen to a story (Grades 2, 3) Joan Rankin
14:00-15:00 Listen to a story (Grades 4, 5, 6) Rozenn Torquebiau
18 November: Meet authors and illustrators
Maryanne and Shayle Bester, Rob Owen, Themba Mabasa, Elizabeth Pulles, Joan Rankin, Marlene Visser.
The same exhibition will move from the University of Pretoria to Alliance Francaise in Pretoria. The focus of the exhibition is on how illustrators illustrate and writers write for children. Each exhibit will introduce an illustrator / explain how he or she works / tell how he or she illustrated or wrote a particular story. The exhibition at the Alliance Francaise will incorporate two days of workshops for school children.
Exhibition University of Pretoria
3 November 2009 15:00 Opening of Exhibition
Speakers:
Thomas van der Walt
Marjorie van Heerden
4-10 November 2009 10:00-17:00 Exhibition
Exhibition Alliance Francaise
12 November 2009 19:00 Opening of Exhibition
14-27 November 2009 10:00-17:00 Exhibition
Confirmed exhibitors
Kalle Becker
Maryanne and Shayle Bester
Paddy Bouma
Carol Davies
Yvette de Beer
Wendy Hartman
Jenny Hatton
Jenn Hurlin
Julia du Plessis
Themba Mabaso
Rob Owen
Louise Prinsloo
Marelise Prinsloo
Elizabeth Pulles
Joan Rankin
Maja Sereda
Nalini Sooknanan
Chantelle Thorne
Rozenn Torquebiau
Marjorie van Heerden
Samantha van Riet
Marlene Visser
Possible Children’s workshops
17-18 November 2009 10:00-15:00 Workshops for schools Alliance Francaise, Pretoria
17 November: Write and illustrate stories
10:00-11:30 Write and illustrate a story (Grades 8 and 9) Rob Owen
10:00-11:30 Let’s be creative (Grades 3,4) Yvette de Beer
12:00-13:00 Listen to a story (Grades 2, 3) Joan Rankin
14:00-15:00 Listen to a story (Grades 4, 5, 6) Rozenn Torquebiau
18 November: Meet authors and illustrators
Maryanne and Shayle Bester, Rob Owen, Themba Mabasa, Elizabeth Pulles, Joan Rankin, Marlene Visser.
14 May, 2009
Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature
The closing date for the Tafelberg and Sanlam competitition is on 30 June 2009.
Tafelberg and Sanlam once again invite writers, established or beginner, to enter stories suitable for 12-18 year olds in which humour plays a role.
Entries may be in Afrikaans, English, Nguni languages, Sotho languages, Tshivenda or Xitsonga.
The winning novels will be published by NB Publishers under the Tafelberg imprint in 2010. For enquiries contact Danita van Romburgh at dvanromb@nb.co.za or (021) 406 3412.
For more information, click on the title above.
Tafelberg and Sanlam once again invite writers, established or beginner, to enter stories suitable for 12-18 year olds in which humour plays a role.
Entries may be in Afrikaans, English, Nguni languages, Sotho languages, Tshivenda or Xitsonga.
The winning novels will be published by NB Publishers under the Tafelberg imprint in 2010. For enquiries contact Danita van Romburgh at dvanromb@nb.co.za or (021) 406 3412.
For more information, click on the title above.
Labels:
Awards,
Sanlam Award,
Writing Young Adult Books
23 April, 2009
Meet Jaco Jacobs
SCBWI Gauteng thanks the Sandton Library and its staff for once again allowing us to host our event in the auditorium. The picture shows Margaret Houliston and two members of staff paging through some of Jaco Jacobs' books. 
On 21 April, SCBWI Gauteng, enjoyed finding out about how Jaco Jacobs wrote his first articles, stories and books for children and young people. He described how he began writing and how he was first published.
What stood out as he related his experiences was his perception of his work. It isn't work, it's fun! He sees his writing as "fun". His plots are full of "fun" and he wants his readers to have "fun".

He talked about where he gets his ideas from for his writing and spoke about how to draw on everyday experiences for inspiration.
All in all, the audience loved listening to him as well as learning from him. The picture above shows Rob Owen, an SCBWI Gauteng Committee member, giving him a small token of SCBWI's great appreciation.
SCBWI Gauteng is also grateful to Carli Viljoen from Lapa Publishers for bringing Jaco to Johannesburg. Featured with Carli and Jaco, is Bernita Naude on the left.
On 21 April, SCBWI Gauteng, enjoyed finding out about how Jaco Jacobs wrote his first articles, stories and books for children and young people. He described how he began writing and how he was first published.
What stood out as he related his experiences was his perception of his work. It isn't work, it's fun! He sees his writing as "fun". His plots are full of "fun" and he wants his readers to have "fun".
He talked about where he gets his ideas from for his writing and spoke about how to draw on everyday experiences for inspiration.
All in all, the audience loved listening to him as well as learning from him. The picture above shows Rob Owen, an SCBWI Gauteng Committee member, giving him a small token of SCBWI's great appreciation.
SCBWI Gauteng is also grateful to Carli Viljoen from Lapa Publishers for bringing Jaco to Johannesburg. Featured with Carli and Jaco, is Bernita Naude on the left.
22 April, 2009
Worlds in Dialogue 8-11 July 2009
Second call for papers:
Worlds in Dialogue
NOTE: The CFP is also available in Setswana and Afrikaans – see below
A conference presented jointly by the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), the South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), the South African Society for General Literary studies (SAVAL), the 4th Conference on South African Children’s and Youth Literature and the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT).
Hosts: The School of Languages
and the Research Unit: Languages and literature in the South African context
Dates: 8-11 July 2009
Venue: North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
Final deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2009
Dialogue between the imagined worlds of languages, texts, authors and cultures is an important force in language and literature. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for stimulating and enhancing such dialogue in the field of literary and linguistic discourse. Dialogue here means to enter into conversation with, to create community and new meaning, but also to contest (to discuss critically) or to dialogise (to expose to different points of view, to relativise).
The field can broadly be organized as conversations (or breaks in the conversations) between five "scapes" that characterize the postmodern, global "landscape", according to Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.) These “scapes” are ideoscapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes and (can one add) landscapes.
Themes within these “scapes” include:
Ideoscapes:
• Dialogues between writers, texts, groups, generations, national literatures.
• Dialogues between movements, like the Romantics and the Modernists, British or American Modernism and modernisms in Africa and elsewhere, local rewritings of realism (magical or otherwise), symbolism.
• Dialogues between literature, philosophy, anthropology, “theory”, sociology, politics and aesthetics.
• Dialogues between value systems and religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, African religions.
• Dialogues between cultures, social strata, identities: middle class, workers’ culture, social identity, media culture, subcultures.
Landscapes
• Dialogues between places and the representations of places and spaces.
• Dialogues between world regions and civilizations: East–West, Africa–Europe, but also south–south, e.g. between South America, Africa, India and China.
• Dialogues between a variety of centres and the peripheries.
Technoscapes:
• Dialogues on ways, means, practices, methods, techniques.
• Dialogues on and between genres.
• Dialogues on ideas, views, demarcations within the disciplines, be that within English, Afrikaans, African languages or other language or literary disciplines.
• Dialogues on where we are and where we ought to go.
Ethnoscapes
• Dialogues on and between “stayers” and migrants, exiles and nomads.
• Dialogues on and between victims of xenophobia, refugees, asylum seekers, marginal figures.
Mediascapes
• Dialogues on and between different languages and on translation and transposition.
• Dialogues between the canonical and the popular.
• Dialogues on and between different audiences: toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, senior citizens.
• Dialogues on and between literature and newspapers, radio, television, film, the Internet.
• Dialogues on the changing “cultural landscape”.
• Dialogues between literature and other art forms: music, dance, painting.
Financescapes
• Dialogues on the flow of money, patronage, the economic base and conditions for language and literary study: funding, publishing, marketing.
To bring out the foci of the participating organisations the conference will be organised in five sections, viz.
• English (with emphasis on modernisms and modernity; the state of the discipline)
• Literary theory
• Postcolonialism
• Children’s and youth literature
• Language teaching.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Profs. Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, Ms Dolly Dlavane, chairs of other societies (programme committee), Ms Stefanie Dose (conference secretary), Dr Phil van Schalkwyk (catering and entertainment), Mrs Elsa van Tonder (finance and logistics), Ms Karien Hattingh (customer relations), Mr Alwyn Roux (marketing and advertising).
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Ms Stefanie Dose Stefanie.Dose@nwu.ac.za
Mrs Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Mr Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Tel. +27-18-299-1485
Fax +27-18-299-1562
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
AUETSA: Prof. Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Prof. Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Prof. Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Children’s literature: Prof. Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Prof. Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
PROPOSALS
Please send proposals (with abstracts of max. 300 words) for papers, 3-person panels or posters either via Organizational Representatives or directly to Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. The languages of the conference will be Setswana, Afrikaans and English. Simultaneous interpreting into English will be provided.
CONFERENCE FEE AND REGISTRATION
Early registration (before 31 May): R950-00 Student registration (with proof of registration) R600
Late registration: (between 1-30 June): R1050-00
One day fee: R400
A registration form is attached.
For accommodation and transport arrangements please see our website at http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index_e.html
Tweede oproep om bydraes:
Wêrelde in dialoog
ʼn Kongres gesamentlik aangebied deur die Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), die South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Algemene Literatuurwetenskap, (SAVAL), die 4de Konferensie oor Suid-Afrikaanse Kinder- en Jeugliteratuur en die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig (SAVTO).
Gashere: Die Skool vir Tale
en die Navorsingseenheid: Tale en Literatuur in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks.
Datums: 8-11 Julie 2009
Plek: Noordwes-Universiteit (Potchefstroomkampus), Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika
Keerdatum vir opsommings: 30 April 2009
Gesprek tussen die verbeelde wêrelde van tale, tekste, outeurs en kulture is ʼn belangrike dryfkrag van tale en letterkunde. Die doel van hierdie kongres is om ʼn forum te skep wat hierdie gesprekke op die gebied van taal- en letterkundige diskoers stimuleer en versterk. Dialoog beteken hier in gesprek tree met, wedersyds gemeen¬skap¬likheid en nuwe betekenisse skep, maar ook om krities teen te staan of te dialogiseer (om te relativeer of bloot te stel aan verskillende perspektiewe).
Breedweg sou ʼn mens die veld, in die woorde van Arjun Appadurai,” Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization), kon sistematiseer as gesprekke (of breuke in die gesprekke) tussen vyf verskillende “skappe” wat die postmoderne kulturele landskap uitmaak, nl. ideoskappe, tegnoskappe, etnoskappe, mediaskappe, finanskappe en (kan mens byvoeg) landskappe.
Onderwerpe wat hieronder val, sluit o.a. in:
Ideoskappe:
• Gesprekke tussen skrywers, tekste, groepe, skrywers, generasies en nasionale letterkundes.
• Gesprekke tussen strominge, soos die Romantiek en Modernisme, Britse of Amerikaanse Modernisme en modernismes in Afrika of elders, plaaslike herskrywings van realisme (magies of nie), simbolisme.
• Gesprekke tussen letterkunde, filosofie, antropologie, “teorie”, sosiologie, politiek en estetika.
• Gesprekke tussen waardestelsels en religieë: Christendom, Islam, Afrika, Judaïsme, Boeddhisme, Hindoeïsme, Afrika-religieë.
• Gesprekke tussen kulture, sosiale lae en identiteite: middelklaskultuur, werkerskultuur, sosiale identiteit, mediakultuur, subkulture.
Landskappe
• Gesprekke oor plekke en die uitbeelding van plekke en ruimtes.
• Gesprekke tussen wêreldstreke en beskawings: Ooste–Weste, Afrika –Europa, maar ook suid–suid, bv. tussen Suid-Amerika, Afrika, Indië en China.
• Gesprekke tussen ʼn verskeidenheid sentra en periferieë
Tegnoskappe:
• Gesprekke oor maniere van doen, praktyke, metodes en tegnieke.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor die genres.
• Gesprekke oor idees, opvattings, afbakenings binne die dissiplines, of dit nou binne Engels, Afrikaans, Afrika- of ander soorte taal- of literatuurstudie is.
• Gesprekke oor waar ons tans is en watter rigting ons behoort in te slaan.
Etnoskappe
• Gesprekke tussen en oor tuisblyers en migrante, ballinge en nomades.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor slagoffers van xenofobie, vlugtelinge, asielsoekers, marginale figure.
Mediaskappe
• Gesprekke oor en tussen verskillende tale en oor vertaling en transposisie.
• Gesprekke tussen die kanonieke en die populêre.
• Gesprekke oor en tussen verskillende gehore: kleuters, kinders, adolessente, volwassenes, senior burgers.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor letterkunde en koerante, die radio, televisie, film, die Internet.
• Gesprekke oor die veranderende “kulturele landskap”.
• Gesprekke tussen letterkunde en ander kunsvorme: musiek, skilderkuns, dans.
Finanskappe
• Gesprekke oor die vloei van geld, mesenasse en die ekonomiese basis en voorwaardes vir taal- en literatuurstudie: befondsing, uitgewerye, bemarking.
Om die fokuspunte van die verskillende organisasie tot hulle reg te laat kom, sal die kongres in vyf afdelings georganiseer word, nl.
• Engels (met as subfokus die stand en toekoms van die dissipline)
• Literêre teorie,
• Postkolonialisme,
• Kinder- en jeugliteratuur en
• Taalonderrig.
KONGRESKOMITEE
Proff. Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, me. Dolly Dlavane, voorsitters van ander verenigings (programkomitee), me. Stefanie Dose (kongressekretaris), dr. Phil van Schalkwyk (spysenering en vermaak), mev. Elsa van Tonder (finansies en logistiek), me. Karien Hattingh (kliëntverhoudings), mnr. Alwyn Roux (bemarking en reklame).
KONGRESSEKRETARIAAT
Me. Stefanie Dose
Mev. Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Mnr. Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Tel. +27-18-299-1485
Faks +27-18-299-1562
VERTEENWOORDIGERS VAN DIE VERENIGINGS
AUETSA: Prof. Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Prof. Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Prof. Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Kinder- en jeugliteratuur: Prof. Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Prof. Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
VOORSTELLE EN OPSOMMINGS
Stuur asb. voorstelle vir referate, 3-persoonpaneelbesprekings of plakkaataanbiedngs (met opsommings van maks. 300 woorde) via die verteenwoordigers van die verenigings of direk aan Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. Die tale van die kongres sal wees Setswana, Afrikaans en Engels. Referate sal na Engels getolk word.
REGISTRASIE EN KONFERENSIEGELD
Vroeë registrasie (voor 31 Mei): R950-00 Studente (met registrasiebewys) R600
Laat registrasie (tussen 1-30 Junie): R1050-00
Dagregistrasiegeld: R400
’n Registrasievorm is aangeheg.
Vir verblyf- en vervoerreëlings kyk asseblief op ons webblad by http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index.html
Taletso ya bobedi ya dipampiri:
Mafatshe a Puisano
Khonferense e e tlhagisiwang mmogo ke Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), South African Society for General Literary studies (SAVAL), Khonferense ya bone ya ditlhangwa tsa Bana le Bašwa ba Aforikaborwa le South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT).
Batlhagisi: Sekolo sa Dipuo
le Yuniti ya Patlisiso: Dipuo le ditlhangwa bokaelong jwa Aforikaborwa
Dates: 8-11 Phukwi 2009
Venue: Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima, Potchefstroom, Aforikaborwa
Letlha bofelo la go neela ditshosobanyo: 30 Moranang 2009
Puisano fa gare ga mafatshe a dipuo, ditlhangwa, bakwadi le ditso tse di farologaneng ke kgatelelo e e botlhokwa mo puong le ditlhangweng. Maikaelelo a khonferense e, ke go tlhola kopano ya puisano ya go phaphamisa le go oketsa dipuisano tsa mofuta ono mo lephateng ya dithuto tsa botlhangwa le puo. Puisano fa e raya go buisana le, go tlhola setšhaba le bokao jo bo ša, mme fela le go ganetsanya (go tlhalosetsana ka tsenelelo) kgotsa go buisana (tlhagisa pepeneneng dikemo tse di farologaneng, go amanya).
Dipuisano tse di ntseng jaana di ne di ka rulaganngwa jaaka puisanyo (kgotsa go tsena fela mo dipuisanyong) fa gare ga mabala a a lekalekanang a megopolo kgotsa ditomologanyo. Ditomologanyo tse, ka mafoko a ga Arjun Appadurai (“Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.) ke ideoscapes, landscapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes le landscapes.
Ditlhogo mo teng ga scapes tse di akaretsa, gareng ga tse dingwe:
Ideoscapes:
• Dipuisano magareng ga bakwadi, ditlhangwa, ditlhopha, masika/ditshika, ditlhangwa tsa bosetšhaba.
• Dipuisano magareng ga mekgatlho, jaaka Romantics le Modernists, British kgotsa American Modernism le modernisms mo Aforika le mafelo a mangwe, dipoeletso tsa dikwalo tsa selegae tsa realism (bomeijiki kgotsa ka tsela nngwe), bokai.
• Dipuisano magareng ga dilthangwa, filosofi, anteropoloji, “teori”, sosioloji, dipolotiki le esetetiki/temogo ya bontle.
• Dipuisano magareng ga digokaganyo tsa boleng le bodumedi: Bokeresete, Isilamo, Bojuta, Bobuda, Bohindu, Ditumelo tsa Seaforika.
• Dipuisano magareng ga ditso, social strata, Ditlhaolo: mophato o o fa gare, setso sa badiri, Tlhaolo ya loago, setso se se fa gare, ditswana.
Landscapes
• Dipuisano magareng ga mafelo le boemedi ba mafelo le dibaka.
• Dipuisano magareng ga dikgaolo tsa lefatshe le ditlhabologo: Botlhabatsatsi–Bophirima, Aforika-Yuropa, mme le borwa–borwa, sk. Fa gare ga Merika Borwa, Aforika, India le Chaena.
• Dipuisano magareng ga senthara le kwa dithokong (periphery) – fa gare ga disentahara le dithokong.
Technoscapes:
• Dipuisano ka ditsela, ditsela, ditiragalo, mekgwa, dithekeniki.
• Dipuisano ka le magareng ga dijenre.
• Dipuisano ka megopolo, dikakanyo, dikaroganyo fa gare ga maphata, e ka nna fa mo Seesemaneng, Seaforikanseng, Dipuong tsa Seaforika kgotsa puo nngwe kgotsa lephata la botlhangwa.
• Dipuisano tsa gore re fa kae le gore re tshwanetse ra bo re ya kwa kae.
Ethnoscapes
• Dipuisanomo go le magareng ga badudi le bafudugi, batshediswamelelwane and bakgarakgatshegi.
• Dipuisano mo go le magareng ga batswasetlhabelo ba letlhoo la batswakwa, bafaladi, babatli ba botshabelo, dibopego tse lekatsweng.
Mediascapes
• Dipuisano ka le magareng ga dipuo tse di farologaneng le phetolelo le kwalololo.
• Dipuisano magareng ga canonical le ditlwaelo.
• Dipuisano ka go le magareng ga babogedi ba ba farologaneng: masea, bana, baša, bagolo, bagolo mo setšhabeng.
• Dipuisano ka go le magareng ga ditlhangwa le dikuranta, radio, thelebišene, filimi, Inthanete.
• Dipuisano ka alogues on the changing “cultural landscape”.
• Dipuisano magareng ga ditlhangwa le dipopego tse dingwe tsa botsweritshi: mmino, tanso, go penta, etc.
Financescapes
• Dipuisano ka kelelo ya madi, thuso ya mosireletsi, lemorago la ekonomi le bomeo ba thuto ya puo le botlhangwa: thuso ya matlole, phasalatso, papatso.
Go ntsha tebelelo ya mekgatlho e e tsayang karolo, khonferense e tla rulaganngwa ka dikarolo di le tlhano, e leng.
• Seesemane (ka kgatelelo go tlhabololo le ditlhabologo; maemo a lephata)
• Teori ya botlhangwa
• Morago ga bokoloniale (Postcolonialism)
• Ditlhwanga tsa Bana le Bašwa
• Go ruta Puo.
KOMITI YA KHONFERENSE
Baporofesara Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, le mmê Dolly Dlavane, badulasetulo ba mekgatlho e mengwe (komiti ya lenaane), mmê Stefanie Dose (mokwaledi wa khoferense), Ngaka Phil van Schalkwyk (tsa dijo le boitapoloso), mmê Elsa van Tonder (ditšhelete le dithulaganyo tse di sa rulaganyetswang), mmê Karien Hattingh (mogokaganyi wa badirisani), rre Alwyn Roux (papatso le phasalatso).
BOKWALEDI JWA KHONFERENSE
Mmê Stefanie Dose
Mmê Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Rre Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Mogalo. +27-18-299-1485
Fekese +27-18-299-1562
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
AUETSA: Moporofesara Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Moporofesara Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Moporofesara Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Ditlhangwa tsa Bana: Moporofesara Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Moporofesara Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
DITLHAGISO
Tsweetswee romela ditlhagiso (le ditshosobanyo tsa bogolo mafoko a a 300) tsa dipampiri, 3-ditlhopha tsa batho ba le kgotsa phosetara go Baemedi ba Borulaganyi kgotsa ka tlhamalalo go Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. Puo ya khonferense e tla nna Setswana, Seaforekanse le Seesemane. Go tolokela kwa Seesemaneng go tla neelwa.
TLHWATLHWA YA KHONFERENSE LE GO IKWADISA
Fa o ikwadisa ka pela: (pele ga 31 Motsheganong): R950.00 Fa o ikwadisa jaaka moithuti (ka paki ya boikwadiso): R600
Fa o ikwadisa thari (gareng ga 1 le 30 Seetebosigo): R1050.00 Tlhwatlhwa ya letsatsi le lengwe fela: R400
Go bona kitsiso ka go madulo le dintslha tsa go eta tlhola “website” ya rona go:
http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index_e.html
Worlds in Dialogue
NOTE: The CFP is also available in Setswana and Afrikaans – see below
A conference presented jointly by the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), the South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), the South African Society for General Literary studies (SAVAL), the 4th Conference on South African Children’s and Youth Literature and the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT).
Hosts: The School of Languages
and the Research Unit: Languages and literature in the South African context
Dates: 8-11 July 2009
Venue: North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
Final deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2009
Dialogue between the imagined worlds of languages, texts, authors and cultures is an important force in language and literature. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for stimulating and enhancing such dialogue in the field of literary and linguistic discourse. Dialogue here means to enter into conversation with, to create community and new meaning, but also to contest (to discuss critically) or to dialogise (to expose to different points of view, to relativise).
The field can broadly be organized as conversations (or breaks in the conversations) between five "scapes" that characterize the postmodern, global "landscape", according to Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.) These “scapes” are ideoscapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes and (can one add) landscapes.
Themes within these “scapes” include:
Ideoscapes:
• Dialogues between writers, texts, groups, generations, national literatures.
• Dialogues between movements, like the Romantics and the Modernists, British or American Modernism and modernisms in Africa and elsewhere, local rewritings of realism (magical or otherwise), symbolism.
• Dialogues between literature, philosophy, anthropology, “theory”, sociology, politics and aesthetics.
• Dialogues between value systems and religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, African religions.
• Dialogues between cultures, social strata, identities: middle class, workers’ culture, social identity, media culture, subcultures.
Landscapes
• Dialogues between places and the representations of places and spaces.
• Dialogues between world regions and civilizations: East–West, Africa–Europe, but also south–south, e.g. between South America, Africa, India and China.
• Dialogues between a variety of centres and the peripheries.
Technoscapes:
• Dialogues on ways, means, practices, methods, techniques.
• Dialogues on and between genres.
• Dialogues on ideas, views, demarcations within the disciplines, be that within English, Afrikaans, African languages or other language or literary disciplines.
• Dialogues on where we are and where we ought to go.
Ethnoscapes
• Dialogues on and between “stayers” and migrants, exiles and nomads.
• Dialogues on and between victims of xenophobia, refugees, asylum seekers, marginal figures.
Mediascapes
• Dialogues on and between different languages and on translation and transposition.
• Dialogues between the canonical and the popular.
• Dialogues on and between different audiences: toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, senior citizens.
• Dialogues on and between literature and newspapers, radio, television, film, the Internet.
• Dialogues on the changing “cultural landscape”.
• Dialogues between literature and other art forms: music, dance, painting.
Financescapes
• Dialogues on the flow of money, patronage, the economic base and conditions for language and literary study: funding, publishing, marketing.
To bring out the foci of the participating organisations the conference will be organised in five sections, viz.
• English (with emphasis on modernisms and modernity; the state of the discipline)
• Literary theory
• Postcolonialism
• Children’s and youth literature
• Language teaching.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Profs. Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, Ms Dolly Dlavane, chairs of other societies (programme committee), Ms Stefanie Dose (conference secretary), Dr Phil van Schalkwyk (catering and entertainment), Mrs Elsa van Tonder (finance and logistics), Ms Karien Hattingh (customer relations), Mr Alwyn Roux (marketing and advertising).
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Ms Stefanie Dose Stefanie.Dose@nwu.ac.za
Mrs Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Mr Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Tel. +27-18-299-1485
Fax +27-18-299-1562
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
AUETSA: Prof. Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Prof. Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Prof. Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Children’s literature: Prof. Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Prof. Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
PROPOSALS
Please send proposals (with abstracts of max. 300 words) for papers, 3-person panels or posters either via Organizational Representatives or directly to Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. The languages of the conference will be Setswana, Afrikaans and English. Simultaneous interpreting into English will be provided.
CONFERENCE FEE AND REGISTRATION
Early registration (before 31 May): R950-00 Student registration (with proof of registration) R600
Late registration: (between 1-30 June): R1050-00
One day fee: R400
A registration form is attached.
For accommodation and transport arrangements please see our website at http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index_e.html
Tweede oproep om bydraes:
Wêrelde in dialoog
ʼn Kongres gesamentlik aangebied deur die Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), die South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Algemene Literatuurwetenskap, (SAVAL), die 4de Konferensie oor Suid-Afrikaanse Kinder- en Jeugliteratuur en die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig (SAVTO).
Gashere: Die Skool vir Tale
en die Navorsingseenheid: Tale en Literatuur in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks.
Datums: 8-11 Julie 2009
Plek: Noordwes-Universiteit (Potchefstroomkampus), Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika
Keerdatum vir opsommings: 30 April 2009
Gesprek tussen die verbeelde wêrelde van tale, tekste, outeurs en kulture is ʼn belangrike dryfkrag van tale en letterkunde. Die doel van hierdie kongres is om ʼn forum te skep wat hierdie gesprekke op die gebied van taal- en letterkundige diskoers stimuleer en versterk. Dialoog beteken hier in gesprek tree met, wedersyds gemeen¬skap¬likheid en nuwe betekenisse skep, maar ook om krities teen te staan of te dialogiseer (om te relativeer of bloot te stel aan verskillende perspektiewe).
Breedweg sou ʼn mens die veld, in die woorde van Arjun Appadurai,” Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization), kon sistematiseer as gesprekke (of breuke in die gesprekke) tussen vyf verskillende “skappe” wat die postmoderne kulturele landskap uitmaak, nl. ideoskappe, tegnoskappe, etnoskappe, mediaskappe, finanskappe en (kan mens byvoeg) landskappe.
Onderwerpe wat hieronder val, sluit o.a. in:
Ideoskappe:
• Gesprekke tussen skrywers, tekste, groepe, skrywers, generasies en nasionale letterkundes.
• Gesprekke tussen strominge, soos die Romantiek en Modernisme, Britse of Amerikaanse Modernisme en modernismes in Afrika of elders, plaaslike herskrywings van realisme (magies of nie), simbolisme.
• Gesprekke tussen letterkunde, filosofie, antropologie, “teorie”, sosiologie, politiek en estetika.
• Gesprekke tussen waardestelsels en religieë: Christendom, Islam, Afrika, Judaïsme, Boeddhisme, Hindoeïsme, Afrika-religieë.
• Gesprekke tussen kulture, sosiale lae en identiteite: middelklaskultuur, werkerskultuur, sosiale identiteit, mediakultuur, subkulture.
Landskappe
• Gesprekke oor plekke en die uitbeelding van plekke en ruimtes.
• Gesprekke tussen wêreldstreke en beskawings: Ooste–Weste, Afrika –Europa, maar ook suid–suid, bv. tussen Suid-Amerika, Afrika, Indië en China.
• Gesprekke tussen ʼn verskeidenheid sentra en periferieë
Tegnoskappe:
• Gesprekke oor maniere van doen, praktyke, metodes en tegnieke.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor die genres.
• Gesprekke oor idees, opvattings, afbakenings binne die dissiplines, of dit nou binne Engels, Afrikaans, Afrika- of ander soorte taal- of literatuurstudie is.
• Gesprekke oor waar ons tans is en watter rigting ons behoort in te slaan.
Etnoskappe
• Gesprekke tussen en oor tuisblyers en migrante, ballinge en nomades.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor slagoffers van xenofobie, vlugtelinge, asielsoekers, marginale figure.
Mediaskappe
• Gesprekke oor en tussen verskillende tale en oor vertaling en transposisie.
• Gesprekke tussen die kanonieke en die populêre.
• Gesprekke oor en tussen verskillende gehore: kleuters, kinders, adolessente, volwassenes, senior burgers.
• Gesprekke tussen en oor letterkunde en koerante, die radio, televisie, film, die Internet.
• Gesprekke oor die veranderende “kulturele landskap”.
• Gesprekke tussen letterkunde en ander kunsvorme: musiek, skilderkuns, dans.
Finanskappe
• Gesprekke oor die vloei van geld, mesenasse en die ekonomiese basis en voorwaardes vir taal- en literatuurstudie: befondsing, uitgewerye, bemarking.
Om die fokuspunte van die verskillende organisasie tot hulle reg te laat kom, sal die kongres in vyf afdelings georganiseer word, nl.
• Engels (met as subfokus die stand en toekoms van die dissipline)
• Literêre teorie,
• Postkolonialisme,
• Kinder- en jeugliteratuur en
• Taalonderrig.
KONGRESKOMITEE
Proff. Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, me. Dolly Dlavane, voorsitters van ander verenigings (programkomitee), me. Stefanie Dose (kongressekretaris), dr. Phil van Schalkwyk (spysenering en vermaak), mev. Elsa van Tonder (finansies en logistiek), me. Karien Hattingh (kliëntverhoudings), mnr. Alwyn Roux (bemarking en reklame).
KONGRESSEKRETARIAAT
Me. Stefanie Dose
Mev. Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Mnr. Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Tel. +27-18-299-1485
Faks +27-18-299-1562
VERTEENWOORDIGERS VAN DIE VERENIGINGS
AUETSA: Prof. Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Prof. Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Prof. Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Kinder- en jeugliteratuur: Prof. Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Prof. Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
VOORSTELLE EN OPSOMMINGS
Stuur asb. voorstelle vir referate, 3-persoonpaneelbesprekings of plakkaataanbiedngs (met opsommings van maks. 300 woorde) via die verteenwoordigers van die verenigings of direk aan Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. Die tale van die kongres sal wees Setswana, Afrikaans en Engels. Referate sal na Engels getolk word.
REGISTRASIE EN KONFERENSIEGELD
Vroeë registrasie (voor 31 Mei): R950-00 Studente (met registrasiebewys) R600
Laat registrasie (tussen 1-30 Junie): R1050-00
Dagregistrasiegeld: R400
’n Registrasievorm is aangeheg.
Vir verblyf- en vervoerreëlings kyk asseblief op ons webblad by http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index.html
Taletso ya bobedi ya dipampiri:
Mafatshe a Puisano
Khonferense e e tlhagisiwang mmogo ke Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), South African Society for General Literary studies (SAVAL), Khonferense ya bone ya ditlhangwa tsa Bana le Bašwa ba Aforikaborwa le South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT).
Batlhagisi: Sekolo sa Dipuo
le Yuniti ya Patlisiso: Dipuo le ditlhangwa bokaelong jwa Aforikaborwa
Dates: 8-11 Phukwi 2009
Venue: Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima, Potchefstroom, Aforikaborwa
Letlha bofelo la go neela ditshosobanyo: 30 Moranang 2009
Puisano fa gare ga mafatshe a dipuo, ditlhangwa, bakwadi le ditso tse di farologaneng ke kgatelelo e e botlhokwa mo puong le ditlhangweng. Maikaelelo a khonferense e, ke go tlhola kopano ya puisano ya go phaphamisa le go oketsa dipuisano tsa mofuta ono mo lephateng ya dithuto tsa botlhangwa le puo. Puisano fa e raya go buisana le, go tlhola setšhaba le bokao jo bo ša, mme fela le go ganetsanya (go tlhalosetsana ka tsenelelo) kgotsa go buisana (tlhagisa pepeneneng dikemo tse di farologaneng, go amanya).
Dipuisano tse di ntseng jaana di ne di ka rulaganngwa jaaka puisanyo (kgotsa go tsena fela mo dipuisanyong) fa gare ga mabala a a lekalekanang a megopolo kgotsa ditomologanyo. Ditomologanyo tse, ka mafoko a ga Arjun Appadurai (“Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.) ke ideoscapes, landscapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes le landscapes.
Ditlhogo mo teng ga scapes tse di akaretsa, gareng ga tse dingwe:
Ideoscapes:
• Dipuisano magareng ga bakwadi, ditlhangwa, ditlhopha, masika/ditshika, ditlhangwa tsa bosetšhaba.
• Dipuisano magareng ga mekgatlho, jaaka Romantics le Modernists, British kgotsa American Modernism le modernisms mo Aforika le mafelo a mangwe, dipoeletso tsa dikwalo tsa selegae tsa realism (bomeijiki kgotsa ka tsela nngwe), bokai.
• Dipuisano magareng ga dilthangwa, filosofi, anteropoloji, “teori”, sosioloji, dipolotiki le esetetiki/temogo ya bontle.
• Dipuisano magareng ga digokaganyo tsa boleng le bodumedi: Bokeresete, Isilamo, Bojuta, Bobuda, Bohindu, Ditumelo tsa Seaforika.
• Dipuisano magareng ga ditso, social strata, Ditlhaolo: mophato o o fa gare, setso sa badiri, Tlhaolo ya loago, setso se se fa gare, ditswana.
Landscapes
• Dipuisano magareng ga mafelo le boemedi ba mafelo le dibaka.
• Dipuisano magareng ga dikgaolo tsa lefatshe le ditlhabologo: Botlhabatsatsi–Bophirima, Aforika-Yuropa, mme le borwa–borwa, sk. Fa gare ga Merika Borwa, Aforika, India le Chaena.
• Dipuisano magareng ga senthara le kwa dithokong (periphery) – fa gare ga disentahara le dithokong.
Technoscapes:
• Dipuisano ka ditsela, ditsela, ditiragalo, mekgwa, dithekeniki.
• Dipuisano ka le magareng ga dijenre.
• Dipuisano ka megopolo, dikakanyo, dikaroganyo fa gare ga maphata, e ka nna fa mo Seesemaneng, Seaforikanseng, Dipuong tsa Seaforika kgotsa puo nngwe kgotsa lephata la botlhangwa.
• Dipuisano tsa gore re fa kae le gore re tshwanetse ra bo re ya kwa kae.
Ethnoscapes
• Dipuisanomo go le magareng ga badudi le bafudugi, batshediswamelelwane and bakgarakgatshegi.
• Dipuisano mo go le magareng ga batswasetlhabelo ba letlhoo la batswakwa, bafaladi, babatli ba botshabelo, dibopego tse lekatsweng.
Mediascapes
• Dipuisano ka le magareng ga dipuo tse di farologaneng le phetolelo le kwalololo.
• Dipuisano magareng ga canonical le ditlwaelo.
• Dipuisano ka go le magareng ga babogedi ba ba farologaneng: masea, bana, baša, bagolo, bagolo mo setšhabeng.
• Dipuisano ka go le magareng ga ditlhangwa le dikuranta, radio, thelebišene, filimi, Inthanete.
• Dipuisano ka alogues on the changing “cultural landscape”.
• Dipuisano magareng ga ditlhangwa le dipopego tse dingwe tsa botsweritshi: mmino, tanso, go penta, etc.
Financescapes
• Dipuisano ka kelelo ya madi, thuso ya mosireletsi, lemorago la ekonomi le bomeo ba thuto ya puo le botlhangwa: thuso ya matlole, phasalatso, papatso.
Go ntsha tebelelo ya mekgatlho e e tsayang karolo, khonferense e tla rulaganngwa ka dikarolo di le tlhano, e leng.
• Seesemane (ka kgatelelo go tlhabololo le ditlhabologo; maemo a lephata)
• Teori ya botlhangwa
• Morago ga bokoloniale (Postcolonialism)
• Ditlhwanga tsa Bana le Bašwa
• Go ruta Puo.
KOMITI YA KHONFERENSE
Baporofesara Hein Viljoen, Betsie van der Westhuizen, Franci Greyling, le mmê Dolly Dlavane, badulasetulo ba mekgatlho e mengwe (komiti ya lenaane), mmê Stefanie Dose (mokwaledi wa khoferense), Ngaka Phil van Schalkwyk (tsa dijo le boitapoloso), mmê Elsa van Tonder (ditšhelete le dithulaganyo tse di sa rulaganyetswang), mmê Karien Hattingh (mogokaganyi wa badirisani), rre Alwyn Roux (papatso le phasalatso).
BOKWALEDI JWA KHONFERENSE
Mmê Stefanie Dose
Mmê Elsa van Tonder Elsa.VanTonder@nwu.ac.za
Rre Alwyn Roux Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za
Mogalo. +27-18-299-1485
Fekese +27-18-299-1562
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
AUETSA: Moporofesara Michael Green: GreenM@ukzn.ac.za
SAACLALS: Moporofesara Gerald Gaylard: Gerald.Gaylard@wits.ac.za
SAVAL: Moporofesara Hein Viljoen: Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za
Ditlhangwa tsa Bana: Moporofesara Betsie van der Westhuizen: Betsie.VanDerWesthuizen@nwu.ac.za
SAALT: Moporofesara Brenda Spencer: Spencb@unisa.ac.za
DITLHAGISO
Tsweetswee romela ditlhagiso (le ditshosobanyo tsa bogolo mafoko a a 300) tsa dipampiri, 3-ditlhopha tsa batho ba le kgotsa phosetara go Baemedi ba Borulaganyi kgotsa ka tlhamalalo go Alwyn.Roux@nwu.ac.za. Puo ya khonferense e tla nna Setswana, Seaforekanse le Seesemane. Go tolokela kwa Seesemaneng go tla neelwa.
TLHWATLHWA YA KHONFERENSE LE GO IKWADISA
Fa o ikwadisa ka pela: (pele ga 31 Motsheganong): R950.00 Fa o ikwadisa jaaka moithuti (ka paki ya boikwadiso): R600
Fa o ikwadisa thari (gareng ga 1 le 30 Seetebosigo): R1050.00 Tlhwatlhwa ya letsatsi le lengwe fela: R400
Go bona kitsiso ka go madulo le dintslha tsa go eta tlhola “website” ya rona go:
http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index_e.html
02 March, 2009
Magic world of Czech Illustrators for Children
This exhibition is opening on Tuesday 3 March 2009 at 15:00. It will be held in the Foyer of the Library at the University of South Africa until Friday 13 March 2009.
07 February, 2009
New literature for young adults at Macmillan
Macmillan South Africa would like to invite writers to develop new literature for young adults. For more information about this project click on the title above.
02 February, 2009
Derrick Hurlin launches new book
Jenn Hurlin is one of our SCBWI members. Her husband, Derrick Hurlin, is launching his book of 41 short stories “Let’s go. You drive” on Saturday 14 February 2009 at 10:30. The event will take place at 303 Murray Street, Brooklyn Pretoria. The cost is R30 per person and there will be eats and great company. Derrick will give a brief chat entitled “The Magic World of the Short Story”. RSPV: drhurlin@telkomsa.net or (012)803-5579 / 083 719-9468. Best wishes for great sales, Derrick. The book has been approved for grades 10-12 by most Education Departments.
Writers' Critique Group
To join a Writers' Critique Group, send an email to SCBWI.Gauteng@MWeb.co.za. Indicate your level of experience as well as the suburb in which you live.
Labels:
Critique Groups,
Writing Children's Books
Beginner Illustrators' Critique Group
To join a Beginner Illustrators' Critique Group based in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg, send an email to SCBWI.Gauteng@MWeb.co.za
13 November, 2008
Maskew Miller Longman Children's Literature Awards; competition
Maskew Miller Longman has announced its annual competition. They are inviting writers to submit unpublished and original children's stories and illustrations.
R7500 will be awarded to the story winner in each language and to the illustration winner. There will also be a runners-up prize of R3500.
Click on the title above to get more details.
R7500 will be awarded to the story winner in each language and to the illustration winner. There will also be a runners-up prize of R3500.
Click on the title above to get more details.
Writers and illustrators required
Writers and illustrators are required by MasterSkill, an American publisher. Click on the title above to read more.
04 November, 2008
Illustrators required
Fantasi Boeke are looking for illustrators for a new reading series. For more information, click on the title above.
Labels:
Illustrating,
Illustrators,
Readers
21 September, 2008
Book Reviews on Bookchat
For information about Bookchat and its reviewing of South African children's books, click on the title above.
Notes on translating
For Notes on translating children's books and in particular Nina and little Duck, click on the title above.
Thoughts on Book Awards and Prizes
For Jay Heale's thoughts on book awards and prizes in South Africa, click on the title above.
Labels:
Awards,
South African children's books
SA Pen Studzinski Literary Award
The closing date to enter this competition is 30 September. Click on the link above from more details or see http://www.sapen.co.za
Labels:
Awards,
Competitions,
SA PEN,
Studzinski Literary Award
06 August, 2008
South African publishers of children's books
Please scroll down the panel on the right for links to South African publishers of children's books. See "Websites of interest".
A blog with South AFrican book reviews
For book reviews and information about books, click on the title above.
2008 M-Net/Via Afrika Literary Award Winners!
Wendy Hartmann (writer) and Marjorie van Heerden (illustrator) win the M.E.R. Prize for best illustrated children's book and S.A. Partridge wins M.E.R. Prize for Best Youth Novel. To read more, click on the title above.
20 May, 2008
SCBWI Retreat: Gauteng representatives
SCBWI Retreat
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 Carnell
International children's magazine market: What material they need, how to submit work, how children's magazine copyright and payment works - a talk by Christine Clark
Panel Discussions
Stories by Sindiwe Magona
Workshops
Discussions
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 Carnell
International children's magazine market: What material they need, how to submit work, how children's magazine copyright and payment works - a talk by Christine Clark
Panel Discussions
Stories by Sindiwe Magona
Workshops
Discussions
16 May, 2008
Book Design
For some tips regarding Book Design discussed at an SCBWI meeting in Cape Town, click on the title above.
15 May, 2008
Spoke, Rillers en ander Grillers
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.
Also, see the link to Fantasi Books in the Websites of Interest below right.
21 April, 2008
11 April, 2008
Katrine Harries Award for Children's Book Illustrations
For the winners of the 1999-2001, 2002-2003, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007, click on the title above.
Labels:
Bornoff. Emily,
Grobler. Piet,
Katrine Harries Award
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