New writing
Fiction and prose by established and emerging authors. Send your poetry or fiction to New Writing at skryfwerk@litnet.co.za to be considered for publication on LitNet.
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Young German woman with the graceful neck
2017-12-01"His silence was like the steep stone folds of a mountain. She remained unseen. A quiet peaceful sea that had lost its roaring voice."
Tampa
2017-11-29"In Knysna, his elderly parents were getting a divorce. His sister was moving house to London with her daughters and accountant husband. Yes, everybody they knew was moving up in the world. He met Nick in Tampa."
Zimbabwe
2017-11-23"in a seeming miracle of survival
a land where the rushing waterfall plummets into the Zambezi"
Forty years after dawn
2017-08-17"State plans still dressed in torn overalls of parliament
Bullet speaks louder than ballot"
The revolution starts on the farms
2017-03-13"The grandchildren’s mouths battling to form the words
they have unlearned Afrikaans
they do not know the somersaults the tongue can perform with the Taal"
Dad's car
2017-02-10"On my way to work this morning, I drove behind
an old Jaguar, the same one Dad had mentioned
was his dream car."
screensaver
2016-11-25"I choose a leatherback
with whimsical face
and remember
that turtles are our myth"
Karin Schimke on a writing workshop in Stanford
2016-11-08"[Y]es, just about anyone can write, often must write – it’s an urge, a need. Anyone can put words on paper to give expression to something."
Saying Good-bye
2016-09-21"the cloud-mark of your plane
leaves its path of entrails
across our continent ..."
Roman rock
2016-09-14"And there, before it levels out
to pebbles, sand, more gulls, crushed shells,
the nasturtiums spread their green-and-spice ..."
The guests
2016-09-14"Not many visitors come to the farm,
but the sudden rain has charmed
a festival of frogs out of the mud ..."
That Saturday
2016-09-13"I was only eight when we moved into this apartment. That was five years ago. I remember being excited at the thought of living in a new place."
hier, die land | here, this land
2016-09-07"jy is ons ineenryger van asem
jy is ons ineensnoerder van stem
jy is ons ineen alomheen"
Dogs
2016-08-17"For days the dog was subdued and miserable. It lay in the kitchen, not eating, but occasionally sighing through its nose."
