NOTE: Attendance at all creative writing workshops is free of charge. Seating is limited. Bookings are essential and will only be processed using the provided booking form. Each participant can book seats in a maximum of three workshops provided that they are not scheduled at the same time. Bookings are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Once a workshop is full, no more participants can reserve seats in it; if one is particularly eager to participate in a full workshop one must arrive early at the given workshop in the event that there are any cancellations. Writing and note-taking materials will be provided to each participant.
Workshop 1 with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Draft-Gang All-Stars: The practical aspects of drafting dreams and summarising assorted nightmares from the first pen drop to the last full stop.
Time: 09h00—09h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 1 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 2 with Ayesha Harruna Attah
The Hundred Footnotes Of Salaga: The practicalities of conducting historical research and discerning what is essential to writing a historical fiction manuscript.
Time: 09h00—09h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 2 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 3 with Roxane Bayer
An Island Of Writings: Dispatches and learnings from the Caine Prize Writing Workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Time: 09h00—09h45• Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 3 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 4 with Abdi Latif Dahir
The Hurtful Does Not Need To Hurt: Maintaining one’s humanity and kindness while writing challenging and traumatic human stories.
Time: 09h00—09h45• Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 4 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 5 with Pumla Dineo Gqola
What Is Feminist Drafting To Me: Incorporating the African feminist imagination in written texts and re-examining and editing one’s work through the feminist lens.
Time: 10h00—10h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 1 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 6 with Bongani Kona
Our Manuscripts Were Once Drafts: The creative and editorial impetus of conceptualising an anthology and coordinating the themes, voices, and styles therein.
Time: 10h00—10h45• Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 2 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 7 with Frankie Murrey
Everyone Writes: The distillation of a short story collection and deciding what to include and what to leave out.
Time: 10h00—10h45• Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 3 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 8 with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
The Creation Of Half-Complete Manuscripts: How to manage unwieldy research notes, writing the narrative, letting it breathe, and knowing when to return to the work.
Time: 10h00—10h45• Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 4 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 9 with Justin Boening
Not On The First Day, But On The Last: How to compile a poetry chapbook and revise its composition in preparation for submission, consideration, and publication.
Time: 11h00—11h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 1 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 10 with Hugh Ellis-Mwiya
Hakahana: How to make head of and haste with poetry edits and revisions without tarrying too much in dreamland.
Time: 11h00—11h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 2 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 11 with Nathalie Handal
Bodies Of Work: Prolificness and maintaining rhythm and output as a writer.
Time: 11h00—11h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 3 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 12 with Michael Kelleher
Museum Hours: Silence, solitude, and distance as essential editing devices for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Time: 11h00—11h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 4 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 13 with Ondjaki
Transparent Cities Of Memory: Looking back at memories of home and writing about forgotten times and difficult places.
Time: 12h00—12h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 1 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 14 with Gregory Pardlo
Spectral Evidence: The price of revision (in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction) and how to pay it each and every time.
Time: 12h00—12h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 2 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 15 with Devon Walker-Figueroa
Lazarus Species: How to resurrect one’s writing practice after a long period of absence.
Time: 12h00—12h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 3 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
Workshop 16 with Joyce Hwang
If You Sketch It, They Will Come: The architect’s notebook and how to collect ideas from one’s surroundings.
Time: 12h00—12h45 • Venue: Goethe-Institut’s Classroom 4 • Admission: free • reservation necessary • Capacity: 10 • Booking form: link
