School poets to step up in Poetry Africa contest
The Poetry Africa festival, now in its 18th edition, takes place from 13 to 18 October.
THE Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, with principal funding from the City of Durban and the KZN Department of Arts and Culture, calls out to students to submit poems as part of the 18th Poetry Africa schools competition.
With its long-standing commitment towards nurturing a culture of reading and writing poetry among the youth, Poetry Africa invites primary and high school learners to take up the exciting opportunity of the festival’s school poetry competition. There is no particular topic for the poems and they can be written in English, Zulu or Afrikaans. Submission must be no more than two poems per learner, with a maximum length of one A4 page per poem. Illegible entries will not be considered.
Poems must either be submitted by hand to the Centre for Creative Arts (Howard College Campus, UKZN), by email to poetryafrica@cca-ukzn.co.za or by fax on 031-260-3074 by 19 September.
The Poetry Africa festival, now in its 18th edition, takes place from 13 to 18 October.
Winners will read their poems on the main stage of the Poetry Africa festival on the evening of 17 October. Prizes will be awarded by Adams Booksellers and the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN).
For more details about this year’s Poetry Africa, visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za or call (031) 260 2506.
Organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the 18th Poetry Africa is funded by the City of Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture, Goethe Institut and the French Insitute of South Africa. The Centre for Creative Arts is housed in the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a special project of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Cheryl Potgieter.
