Press release: View the programme of the Midlands Literary Festival

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2 – 4 September 2022

Fern Hill Hotel, Howick, KZN

The Midlands Literary Festival has become one of the major book events in KwaZulu-Natal. Simply look at the programme to see why! A weekend in the Natal Midlands is a wonderful way to recharge. Do it for yourself.

Tickets at the door.

To book, or ask a question, contact festival director Darryl David at ddavid@uwc.ac.za or send an email to midlitfest@gmail.com.

Friday, 2 September

10:00 – 11:00 Jono Hornby and Jaqui Hiltermann, Tour of Boomtown

Official opening: Fern Hill Hotel supper

18:00 – 18:30 Saray Khumalo, My Journey to The Top of The World

18:30 – 19:00 Paul O’Sullivan (Zoom), Stop Me if You Can

19:00 – 20:30 Peter Terry, producer Janice Honeyman, At All Costs (Homage to Men Who Sacrificed Their Lives at The Battle of Delville Wood)

Saturday, 3 September

08:00 – 08:50 Registration;

08:50 – 09:00 Mayor Chris Pappas, Welcome

09:00 – 09:30 Rajendra Chetty, The Mountains, My Guru

09:30 – 10:00 Bridget Krone, The Cedarville Shop and the Wheelbarrow Swap

10:00 – 10:30 Peter Terry; The Great War Poets

10:30 – 11:00 Tea

11:00 – 11:30 Erica Terblanche (Zoom), Run: For the Love of Life

11:30 – 12:00 Hugh Bland, New Beginnings

12:00 – 12:30 Pecha Kucha Poetry Session

Teamhw Sbongujesu, Bury Me Naked

Mark de Wet, Scattered Thoughts

Sikhumbuzo Thabede, Nkandla, Keeper of My Soul

12:30 – 13:00 Jackie Kalley, Old Houses of Maritzburg

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Ashwin Desai, Line Breakers

14:30 – 15:00

Rhiannon Reid, After the Rague

Tshidi Monkoe, Prison Love

15:00 – 15:45 Pecha Kucha Session

Allen Goddard, Way Poems 

Lucky Mbatha, A Slice of Heaven on Earth

15:45 – 16:15 Rajendra Chetty, Fatima Meer: Choosing to be Defiant

16:15 – 16:45 Yves Vanderhaeghen, The Lostness of Maritzburg: Why the Capital City Gets Such a Raw Deal in Fiction

16:45 – 17:00 Jackie Phamotse, Bare IV: Mercy

17:00 – 17:15 Ed Schroeder, The Nguni of the Makhathini Flats

Sunday, 4 September

09:00 – 09:30 Mala Naidoo, A Flaming Challenge

09:30 – 10:00

Karnagie Govender, A Perfectly Orchestrated Plan

James Ward, The Homecoming and The Reckoning

10:00 – 10:30 Brad Morgan, In Your Stride: 100 Years of the Comrades Marathon

10:30 – 11:00 Tea

11:10 – 11:45 Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase, Witnessing – From the Rwandan Tragedy to Healing in South Africa

 

11:45 – 12:15 Jaco Alant, Is Mos Oos

12:15 – 12:45 Makhubalo Ikaneng, Mayine, the Rain Queen (Yabi Fundraising Performance)

12:45 – 13:15 Elana Bregin, Not for Sensitive Viewers

See also:

The Midlands Literary Festival 2019 in pictures

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