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