JOZI BOOK FAIR 2010

Programme & Events

The Jozi Book Fair offers several platforms for writers, publishers, agents, translators and the press to engage, debate, discuss and plan new projects. The programme includes seminars, roundtables, conversations, readings, workshops, networking platforms and more.

Click here to view the programme schedule

For programme updates and more information on participating authors see My Class, the newsletter of the Jozi Book Fair.

For details of the various events in the programme please click the links below:

Round tables
The Poverty Trap
Religion, Politics & Freedom of Expression
Foreigner in SA Literature
Sports & Politics: World Cup
Women in SA Publishing
Violence Against Women in Literature

Workshops
Cartooning for All-Comers
Libraries & the Culture of Reading
Writing Poetry in Setswana
Mother Tongue Literature
Writers' Guide to Reading
Indigenous Language Programmes
Photography & Storytelling
Women's Writing - Short Stories
Book Illustrations
Poetry by Women for Women
Self-Publishing

Encounters
Literature Meets Visual Arts
Literature Meets Radio/Media
Literature Meets Cellphones
Literature Meets Photography
Literature Meets Illustration
Literature Meets Film
Literature Meets Music

Book launches
The Moral Status and Rights of Animals
Bophelong Community
Ubuhle Bendalo
From North to South
New Frank Talk
Phapo's Gift
WENA
Grief's Bounty
Flight of the Moth
The Mission - a biography
The Everyday Wife
The Black Train Rising: Life and Times of Welcome Duru
Black Flame
Khanya Journal
Malaria Man & her Neighbours
Beyond the Billboards: the Livelofe story
Private Excavations & Writing for Salvation

Conversations & reading sessions
Are we there? - the future of cartooning in SA
Book Clubs in Townships - What do they read?
Small & Independent Publishers in Southern Africa
Resistance Writing
The Collaborative Novel
Young Writers Read
Sankara Publishing
Women's Day Poetry Reading: Feminist Poetry in Post-Apartheid SA
Sol Plaatjie & the Veil
What is Slavery to Me?
Seminar on Afrikan Men
African Women Writing Resistance

Children's programme
Short Story Reads
Word Games
Indigenous Games
Fanzine Workshop
Soccer Exhibition
Storytelling
Poster-making with pro-literary message
Broken Telephones
Reading Time
Poetry Writing Workshop
Fanzine Workshop
Theatre Games
Focused Reading Time
Tell me a story
Write your own book
Sheba, Magic and Smiley
Tofi's Fire Dance

Jozi Book Fair reception

Screenings
Movies and Documentaries on Literature and Authors
The Mission - a biography

Roundtables  Workshops  Encounters  Book Launches  Conversations   Children   Screenings