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.

Please note that work previously published in print or on any online media platform will not be considered for selection.

Cardiac arrest

Gail Dendy 2012-09-11 Gail Dendy describes a cardiac event.

No haikus

Gail Dendy 2012-09-06 Gail Dendy pleads you to abstain ... from writing haikus!

Marikana

Heidi Henning 2012-08-31 "This stretch of land
has known battles
long into the backlog of time"

Etienne van Heerden, Isobel Dixon 2012-08-23 Poison Karoo was written out of concern and dismay at the proposals for hydraulic fracking in the Karoo. It is a work of fiction, written as if commercial hydraulic fracking has already begun in the Karoo.

Jan Braai se Vuurwerke word bekendgestel

2012-08-01 Die man wat Nasionale Braaidag begin het stel sy boek oor braai, vuurmaak en die kuns van oor kole kook hierdie maand in Kaapstad bekend.

Strike

Bandile Dlabantu 2012-07-25 Bandile Dlabantu turns a strike into a poem.

I Comrade Hyena

Bandile Dlabantu 2012-07-25 A poetic monologue, straight from the hyena's mouth.

My Africa

Heidi Henning 2012-07-17 Heidi Henning writes about Africa – but not all of it.

My dearest: Until we finally meet

Yolandie Hooman 2012-06-12 "Do you think it’s possible to love someone you’ve never even met – never even seen?"
Yolandie Hooman answers the burning question in her letter to an unknown lover.

My dearest: Dearly Beloved Brian

Lily Forrester 2012-06-12 Lily Forrester goes all Elizabethan in this olf fashioned love letter.

My dearest: Love Letter from Robert Browning to his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Brett Beiles 2012-06-12 Brett Beiles pens a delightful letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the guise of her husband, Robert Browning.

My dearest: You

Elizabeth M Star 2012-06-05 Elizabeth M Star pours her heart out in a love letter simply directed at "You".

My dearest: Beloved John

Myra Lochner 2012-06-05 Myra Locher writes a love letter addressed to an English Poet whose words never fail to move her.

A guide to walking in Blougat

Adriaan Coetzee 2012-06-05 Adriaan Coetzee pilfers from a hiking guide to create a clever poem.

My dearest: To my love

Myra Lochner 2012-05-31 "I wish to write you gentle verse in languages that touch: words of the heart and soul and skies and words so tender, soft ..."

My dearest: Beloved Acis

Myra Lochner 2012-05-31 "To you, beloved Acis, all of me stood for perfection, shared. You loved my eyes … my twin stars, you declared ..."

My geliefde: Liefdesbrief-kompetisie | My dearest: Love letter competition

2012-05-17 LitNet wil graag die verlore kuns van die liefdesbrief in 2012 laat herleef. | LitNet would like to rekindle the lost art of the love letter in 2012.

Releasing the butterfly: Ralph Goodman on life-writing, storytelling and self-reflection

Bibi Slippers 2012-05-17 Ralph Goodman recently started hosting life-writing workshops in which participants have the opportunity to do some intense self-reflection while learning more about the nuts and bolts of writing.

Prey

Gail Dendy 2012-05-03 "The lie of the land is plain,
distilled by perfect sight and scent."

Araki

Gary Cummiskey 2012-04-25 "Araki" is a cycle of poems by Gary Cummiskey based on photographs by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.