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On Saturday, June 7, 2014, postgraduate students and early career researchers from as far afield as Cape Town and Krakow gathered at the University of York, UK, for Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On, a one-day colloquium on South African literature.

Responding to a Call for Papers which foregrounded the role of literature two decades after apartheid, upcoming scholars engaged with literary texts by Damon Galgut, Phaswane Mpe, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Antjie Krog, among others. Four panels – “Writing Home”, “Writing ‘Reality’”, “Transnational Writing” and “Staging, Drawing, Laughing” – covered genres ranging from South African poetry and creative non-fiction to stand-up comedy and the graphic novel. A selection of abridged papers has been made available here, on LitNet.

– Imke van Heerden, WSAN 2014 convenor

	Literary Trials: Janet Malcolm, Narrative Journalism and the Courtroom in South Africa and the United States Anneke Rautenbach
	Inexplicable Present: Post-Apartheid Subjectivity in Vladislavi?’s City Thando Njovane
	Sinister Surfaces: Contemporary South African Horror (On Stage and Off) Esthie Hugo
	Queer Movements: Sexual Desire, Space and Home in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow Sanja Nivesjö
	Drawing South Africa Now: Writing Urban Environments in the Graphic Novel Form? Dominic Davies
	Writing South Africa Now 2014 – Photos from York Imke van Heerden