Festivals
When Context Writers Festival held its inaugural program in 2019, it explored a different speed of literary festival grounded in intimacy, accessibility and complicated questions. The festival returns next month with Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian poet Dominic Guerrera on board as curator to pick up the torch – and light a few fires.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Thrilling contemporary dance on stage and screen, finalists selected in health art prize, a new appointment at Slingsby, artists secure prestigious international scholarship, and two local writers’ festivals unveil programs.
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SA arts and culture news in brief: New Barossa Contemporary festival launches inaugural program, SA Music Awards nominations open, $20,000 art award recipient announced, Windmill show to raise funds for Afghans, an intensive program for aspiring authors, and a free play spotlighting positive mental health.
This review in Writers SA’s literary criticism series A Year in Review looks at Ellen van Neerven’s irreverent poetry collection Throat, a work that reaches ‘beyond the confines of the white imagination’.
The Animals in That Country takes the reader on an unfamiliar, ominous ride that will challenge what family means, and asks, if we could communicate with other sentient beings, would we really want to listen? This is the latest article in Writers SA’s literary criticism series A Year in Review.
This review in Writers SA’s literary criticism series A Year in Review looks at Ewa Ramsey’s The Morbids, a novel that explores the contradictions which arise from loss and trauma.
Local writers’ organisation Writers SA has announced a summer workshop program with a range of events fit for new and emerging writers looking to improve their practice.
