Presentation: Hayley Chewins

Presentation: Hayley Chewins

Venue: Johannesburg (address will be sent to respondents)

Date: Tuesday 4 June 2019
Time: 10:30
Cost:  R100 (SCBWI members) R200 (non-members)
RSVP: To Jenny at SCBWI.SA.Gauteng@mweb.co.za

About the event:
Hayley Chewins will talk about the process of publishing her debut middle grade novel, The Turnaway Girls, which was selected as one of the Best Middle Grade Books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews and deemed one of the best feminist books for young readers by the American Library Association. The Turnaway Girls is also an Exclusive Books Recommended Read for April and received a starred review from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. It has been published across the English-speaking world with Candlewick Press and Walker Books, and translation rights have sold in three territories. There will be plenty of time for questions and comments.

About the facilitator:

Hayley grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, in a house so full of books that she learnt to read by accident. She studied classical voice for a year before switching to a degree in English Literature and Italian, and realised she wanted to be a novelist while completing her postgraduate degree in law. Hayley holds an Honours degree in English Literature and a Master’s degree in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with her husband and a toy poodle named Darfer. She loves secondhand bookshops, Audrey Hepburn movies, dark fairy tales, and long conversations over coffee.

This event is for illustrators and writers.

Shortlist for the 2019 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature Announced

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate publication: 30 April 2019
SHORTLIST FOR THE 2019 SANLAM PRIZE FOR YOUTH LITERATURE ANNOUNCED
Sanlam and Tafelberg (an imprint of NB Publishers) are proud to announce this year’s finalists.
English:
• Jayne Bauling from White River, Mpumalanga with Smoke Across the Sun;
• Jenny Hatton from Lynnwood Glen, Pretoria with Upstanding;
• Nerine Dorman from Welcome Glen, Simon’s Town with Sing Down the Stars;
• Sally Partridge from Durbanville, Cape Town with The Whoevers;
• Shafinaaz Hassim from Polokwane with Nisa Qamar and the Legend of Qawthar; and
• Toby Damon Bennett from Claremont, Cape Town with The Music Box Blues.
Afrikaans:
• Annerle Barnard from Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein with Sindikaat;
• Christina Venter from Louis Trichardt, Limpopo with E-pos vir Trui;
• Derick van der Walt from Villieria, Pretoria with Die Toring van Jasmyn;
• Frans Fourie from Strand with Neuk;
• Nerine Ahlers and Aletta Steenkamp from Lynnwood and Waterkloof, Pretoria with Ek is nog hier; and
• Tertius Janse van Rensburg from Framesby, Port Elizabeth with Die sindikaat.
Vernacular:
• Lungile Promise Zwane from Wasbank, KwaZulu-Natal with Umzabalazo (isiZulu);
• Thembisile Kundlwana from Sebokeng, Vanderbijlpark with Tata Siyakuxolela (isiXhosa);
• July Innocent Mtsweni from Lindo Park, Pretoria with Umfelasakhe (Ndebele);
• Thabo Kheswa from Bophelong, Vanderbijlpark with Haeso ke kae! (Sesotho);
• Mokhwatsi Reuben Maponya from Tzaneen with Makhwatšo (Northern Sotho);
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• Othusitse Moses Lobelo from Delareyville, North West with Mmatla kgomo kodumela (Setswana);
• Mbedzi Nyelisani from Thohoyandou, Limpopo with U Kondelela (Tshivenda); and
• Musa Aubrey Baloyi from Soweto with Tinsimu To Pfumala Mpfumawulo (Xitsonga).
A gold and silver winner will be selected in each category and announced at an awards ceremony in October 2019. The six prize-winning books will be launched at this event whereafter authors will visit local schools and festivals as part of a publicity tour.
The total prize money amounts to R90 000: R20 000 for the gold winners and R10 000 for the runners-up.
The Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature turns 40 in 2020!
This biennial award has been a source of local young adult publications since its inception in 1980. Over the years some changes were made to the competition to ensure relevance to readers and the South African literary and social landscape. The most significant change was to open entries to all eleven official languages of South Africa, thus ensuring that more writers and readers benefit from the competition.
Michelle Cooper (Publisher and Head: Children’s and Youth Literature, Tafelberg) says: “I cherish each Sanlam award-winning book we’ve published. They represent the best of local writing for young adults. Our latest batch of winners cover themes that are right on trend with international YA and I know readers will be enthralled.”
Debut authors compete on level ground against established writers in this anonymously judged competition and some have gone on to succeed as published authors in other genres as a result of winning. With a few exceptions, a Sanlam winner is prescribed in schools regularly, and some have been turned into films. Sanlam award winners have also gone on to win other local literary prizes like the Media24 Books Literary Awards and the Percy FitzPatrick Prize.
“Sanlam believes that learning provides the foundation for building a world of Wealthsmiths. Our investment in this competition for almost 40 years has resulted in thousands of young people getting access to books ‒ laying the foundation for living their best lives, now and for the next generation,” says Elena Meyer (Senior Manager: Sponsorships, Sanlam).
Media enquiries:
Hevette le Grange
Publicist: Children's and YA books
021 406 3414 / 083 234 5774
hevette.legrange@nb.co.za

Seminar: Children's and Young Adult Books

to be held on 21 October 2017 in the Auditorium at the Sandton Public Library

This seminar features a number of authors talking about the path to publication, both traditional and independent, about the power of dreams and hard work. It promises to be stimulating, thought-provoking and motivating.

Cost:               Early bird payment by 13 October: R100 SCBWI members, R200 non-members

At the door: R150 SCBWI members, R300 non-members

RSVP:            By 19 October to Jenny at SCBWI.SAGauteng@mweb.co.za

All welcome - members and non-members. This event is for illustrators and writers – aspiring and published.

Tea and coffee will be available but participants are asked to bring their own lunch boxes.

PROGRAMME

09:15       Welcome: A day away from adult concerns to one filled with children’s stories and young adult dreams - Jenny Hatton: writer of numerous textbooks, three children’s picture books published by Jacana Media and a play published by Junkets, editor of children’s fiction and non-fiction, organizer of SCBWI events in Gauteng and general plodder.

09:30       A fairy tale in Joan Rankin style - Joan Rankin: writer and illustrator of more than 100 books published nationally and internationally, awarded the HAUM Daan Retief Publishers Competition for Children’s Book Illustration in 1986, the Katrien Harries Award for Children’s Book Illustration in 1991 and 2009, the Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Gold Award in 2003, the MER Award in 2011 and the Tienie Holloway Gold Medal for Children's Literature in 2012.

                Traditional publishing                       

10:00       Seeing yourself in the story: Writing a series for young people - Bontle Senne: a literacy advocate and writer of fiction for children and teenagers with two books published by Cover2Cover,  these part of an Afrocentric adventure/fantasy trilogy for 9-12-year-olds called Shadow Chasers, Army of Shadows and Lake of Memories.

10:45       Tea                                                       

11:00       Where to now: What happens after the first book has been published?            - Susie Dinneen, writer, thinker, doodler, picture lover, general nerd, reader and copy editor whose first book, Nombulelo and the Moth, was published by Puffin Books.

                Traditional and self-publishing      

11:45   Going hybrid: traditional publishing versus publishing my own books - Joanne Macgregor, a bird of many feathers, is a prolific writer of children’s and young adult books amongst which are two children’s picture books about Jemima Jones, three eco-warrior YA books published by Protea Books, six YA self-published books and even a book for adults, all this between counseling work as a psychologist.

12:30       Lunch                                                  

13:15       Don’t preach! Writing about serious topics for teens - Fiona Snykers, author of the Trinity series of novels, the Sisterz series of mobile phone novels commissioned by the Shuttleworth Foundation and  Now Following You, a thriller published by Modjaji Books, nominated for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize; also a reviewer of books for the Times and the Sunday Times

14:00       The marketing of self-published books: a tough exercise for a shy person - Damaria Senne, an activist, journalist, writer, communications specialist, blogger and publisher had her first story, The Doll That Grew, published in 1993 by Macmillan Boleswa but has also written educational materials, brochures, pamphlets, newsletter copy, website and blog content and established Storypot where she began to publish some of her content online independently and later established Damaria Senne Media.

14:45   Thanks

Edyth Bulbring

will be a speaker at an SCBWI event to be held at the Sandton Public Library on 2 July 2013.

Edyth comes from the Eastern Cape where she attended Collegiate High. She completed a BA at UCT and an MBA at Wits Business School. She has worked as a journalist and political correspondent.

She has three children and a dog and lives in Johannesburg.

To date, she has had six books published in South Africa:

Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion. Jacana. 2008.
Melly, Mrs Ho and Me. Penguin. 2010.
Melly, Fatty and Me. Penguin. 2011.

Pops and the Nearly Dead. Penguin. 2010.
The Club. Jonathan Ball. 2008.
The Summer of Toffie and Grummer. OUP. 2008.

The rights to the Melly books have been bought by a UK publisher and Melly, Mrs Ho and Me is published as: A Month with April-May. Hot Key Books. 2013. 100 Days of April-May, the sequel, will be published in September 2013. Hot Key will publish another of her books, The Summer of Toffie and Grummer, in 2014 and the two April-May books will be published by Bayard in France in 2014. This has been made possible by a UK agent.A few schools have selected Melly, Mrs Ho and Me as a school reader.

Edyth started writing for her children. Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion is a fantasy about three children living in Johannesburg. When this book was rejected by a number of publishers, she wrote The Summer of Toffie and Grummer in a month and received four offers from different publishers. In the same year, she finished The Club.Even though Edyth writes for young adults, she doesn't read many YA books, explaining that this would be too terrifying, not wanting to be influenced. Interestingly, in a recent review of A Month with April-May, her writing is compared with that of Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison. Edyth does read voraciously though, consuming books for adults, local and international. Her alltime favourite book is Harper Lee's To kill a Mocking Bird, of which she has more than 30 copies!Her books are her own stories, uniquely imagined. Of course, she draws on her own childhood experiences as well as those of her three children.

The names of her characters are carefully chosen, each one with its own hidden meaning. Her daughter, Sophie, inspired the Melly stories while people in her mother's retirement village inspired Pops and the Nearly Dead.

In an interview with Teen Librarian www.teenlibrarian.co.uk, she explains: "I don't usually write with any audience in mind. I simply tell the story I want to tell. I like writing books from the perspective of young people. Teenagers are interesting people and their take on life fascinates me. I think they tend to be more honest than adults. And their observations on life and society tend to be less muted and constrained by convention."

Edyth has also ventured into writing for other media. Her story Confessions of a Virgin Loser is available on a mobile phone.

Edyth Bulbring received the Golden Baobab Prize for her short story, Sour worms in 2010/2011. In 2013, she was awarded the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for Youth Literature for Melly, Fatty and Me.

What stands out in Edyth's writing is her original approach, her sensitivity alongside the downright honesty. She's also clever in her choice of words, her allusions and her wonderful sense of humour. But most of all, she's wicked in the original sense of the word. She pinpoints the issues, the character's foibles and strengths. Young adult fans might agree that she's wicked, but in their sense of the word.

Neil Malherbe

Neil Malherbe will be a speaker at an SCBWI event to be held at the Sandton Public Library on 2 July 2013.


He is the 2013 Winner of the Crystal Kite Award for the Africa Region for The Magyar Conspiracy which also won the Sanlam Silver Prize for Youth Literature in 2011. The book is published by Tafelberg and is Neil's first novel for young adults.

Neil Malherbe grew up in Pretoria, where he matriculated from Pretoria Boys High School. He received his BEd and MEd at Rhodes University.

Neil has taught English at a number of schools around South Africa and is currently headmaster of Penryn Preparatory School near Nelspruit.

He is passionate about sport, specifically waterpolo and rugby, and has coached waterpolo at national level. His other passion is to enthuse children about reading. He enjoys watching sport, eating good food, reading and spending time at his beach cottage in the Eastern Cape. 

The Magyar Conspiracy is a murder-mystery set in Hungary and South Africa featuring a waterpolo competition. It has been described as a real page-turner. The author hopes it will encourage boys to read more.

Neil’s Blog: http://neil-malherbe.blogspot.com/

So Much More than Just a Book: the Bookazine

12^th December 2010, Johannesburg: Entertaining, easy-to-read and affordable – the Bookazine ™ has arrived and will be available in selected C N A stores across Gauteng and all major holiday centres from December 14th.  Published by Nollybooks,

ENGLISH ACADEMY PERCY FITZPATRICK PRIZE FOR YOUTH LITERATURE

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR THE ENGLISH ACADEMY

PERCY FITZPATRICK PRIZE FOR YOUTH LITERATURE AND
THOMAS PRINGLE AWARD FOR A SHORT STORY

After months of hard work, the panels adjudicating the above listed awards have come up with shortlists of potential winners. Below is detailed information about the shortlisted entries.

PERCY FITZPATRICK PRIZE

The panel reports that there were many impressive books to choose from. They have produced a shortlist of seven books which were highly praised, and would all have made worthy winners. In alphabetical order the books are:

The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball by Michael Williams (Maskew Miller Longman, 2009)

Dance of the Freaky Green Gold by John Coetzee (Tafelberg, 2008)

Daniel Fox and the Jester’s Legacy by Andy Petersen (Penguin, 2009)

Fuse by S A Partridge (Human & Rousseau, 2009)

Jesse’s Story by Fiona MacGregor (Maskew Miller Longman, 2008)

Sharkey’s Son by Gillian D`Achada (Tafelberg, 2008)

The Summer of Toffie and Grummer by Edyth Bulbring (Oxford University Press SA, 2008)

Judges: Crystal Warren (Convener), Marike Beyers and Megan van der Nest

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.

Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

Announcement and call for papers Seminar on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children 20-21 August 2009

IBBY SA's Representative South African Books for Children and Young People

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 translated into other South African languages. • The books are intended for children and young people: we have not included titles that are geared to an adult market, even if popular among younger readers. For the full list, click on the Title above. email info@ibbysa.org.za website www.ibbysa.org.za To request a printable brochure, please email booksforafrica@iafrica.com

Opportunity for writer

Peter Lancett, the series and commissioning editor for Ransom Publishing in the UK, is looking for a SOUTH AFRICAN writer to contribute a novella (30 - 35,000 words) to the 2008 Cutting Edge series. This series is aimed at teenagers and deals with hard-hitting issues - drugs, alienation, violence, death, crime etc. Peter is particularly looking for a writer who can contribute a work told from the perspective of a township kid. All works in this series are told in the first person. If you are a SOUTH AFRICAN writer, interested in contributing to this series, please contact him for the series guidelines at peter@xlitherfilms.com.