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.
Respect
2019-10-15“It is enough to know now that you are the love of my life. I listen to eighties music now. I am happy. I want you to know that.”
MA in Kreatiewe Skryfkuns by die Universiteit van die Vrystaat
2019-10-10“(Aspirant)-skrywer, -digter of literêre vertaler? Die UV bied aan jou ’n kursus waarvan die vernaamste oogmerk die ontwikkeling van ’n lewensvatbare publiseerbare manuskrip is – en jy doen dit onder leiding van twee bekroonde skrywers, Henning Pieterse en Francois Smith.”
Toy designers
2019-10-08“We pick the struggling succulents
Sparsely scattered on the barely surviving
Bleached lawn, prickled with camel thorns”
The Adhan is silent most mornings
2019-10-03“In every home there’s a room that holds the most powerful secrets. In every room that holds such secrets, there’s a table. A table that eavesdrops, that listens to all human discussions.”
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: Guardian angel
2019-08-25LitNet se Vrouedag-kompetisie – Poem by Danielle Robbertze:
"You were my guardian
Now let me try to be yours"
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: A woman I remember
2019-08-24LitNet se Vrouedag-kompetisie – Poem by Caitlin Tredoux:
"Though I never knew your name,
motherhood connects us
as we care and try try try"
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: A woman I remember
2019-08-24LitNet se Vrouedag-kompetisie – Flash fiction by Yvonne Botha: "She never disappointed us and although she wasn’t our mother she was and is a woman to be remembered."
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: I am not a woman
2019-08-21LitNet se Vrouedag-kompetisie – Flash fiction by Heidi Slot: "Alone in the harbour café in St Tropez we drink mineral water and read French magazines. We do not speak French, so we do not speak."
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: A woman I remember
2019-08-21LitNet se Vrouedag-kompetisie – Poem by Fabianne Vorster (11):
"Of course I couldn’t see
Because in my sleep she came to be"
Strandloper
2019-08-21"So, put that in your pocket for a rainy day. The world comes to life around me, and I’m alright again. I find it hard to trust people now. I go for long walks."
To that young woman eating watermelon
2019-08-14Poem by Abigail George:
"Enough,
you little show-off! You heathen, or if it is by your choice,
atheist, then, if it pleases you. Are you happy?"
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: Alice Duddy
2019-08-06LitNet se Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie – Poem by Linda Meyer:
"She prepares and bottles jam all day
Then she goes and gives it all away"
Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie: To my mother
2019-08-06LitNet se Vrouedag-skryfkompetisie – Poem by Abigail George:
"You’re opera in the
wilderness. See the tragedy in my eyes, mother.
I ponder the hush, the inner music of the shore.
I’m always seeing the same shore."
Death, the dressmaker
2019-07-24"All we want deep down is that
perfect dressmaker who
knows when the time is nigh"
Like writer father, like poet daughter
2019-05-03"That’s being honest, and after the rain
she’s Jean Rhys, and during the rain she edits me
away, censors me, declares me Mrs Rochester.
Her hands smell like spaghetti."
Two poems by Carla du Preez
2019-04-24"She will hope against all hope
that her day will seem brighter
through concealer and dark glasses."
Introducing the third dimension in this modern era
2019-04-24"I remember now. I remember everything. I remember my brother’s defiance, my mother’s tears and heartache and defeatist attitude. The music school behind her eyes, and I would see the sea in his father’s knuckles."