Jenn Writes

  • This elevator pitch gets a thumbs up

    If suspense is your thing, then Linwood Barclay’s Elevator Pitch might be just what you’re looking for. It starts with an actual elevator pitch by a scriptwriter, which ends way worse than the expected “no” from the executive he’s been stalking. By the end of Monday, five people are dead – four in what seems…

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  • Celebrating Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka

    In celebrating a July literary birthday, we reflect on the life and work of Nobel prize winner, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, better known as Wole Soyinka, born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on 13 July 1934. Long before #BlackLivesMatter, there was Wole Soyinka. The playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist has, for more than a half…

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  • Importance of stories

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  • On the power of writing

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  • Shortlists for Sunday Times/CNA awards

    South Africa can claim to have some of the best writers around. From books on motherhood to shattering exposes of the country’s colonial and racist past, from stories on the history of the Kruger National Park to the social movement creating a “pink line” around the planet, there is much to celebrate, even in the…

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