In collaboration with the Suidoosterfees, Artscape and New Voices, and the support of NATi, we invest in the development of emerging playwrights’ talents through this shared project. After an intensive playwriting programme at Paulet House, the young playwrights’ work will be developed to make their debut at the following year’s Suidoosterfees. The residency will take place from the 8th to the 28th of September 2025.
Hawthornden Foundation is a private charitable foundation supporting contemporary writers and the literary arts. They offer two open application residencies: Hawthornden Literary Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland and a non-residential writers’ residency in Brooklyn.
A practical and intensive mentoring programme where emerging screenwriters learn from various prominent figures in the TV industry about the finer details of this growing and competitive industry. This course is offered in collaboration with M-Net Channels.
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation offers, in partnership with Huisgenoot and LitNet, a mentorship programme to promising emerging short story writers. The writers will work on their short stories that are aimed specifically at Huisgenoot’s family market under guidance of our mentor, Fourie Botha. If the magazine approves a writer’s story after the workshop, the writer will be remunerated for it.
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation partners with Passa Porta, an international literature house in Brussels, to bring together writers from different continents in the Karoo. Two Flemish writers are chosen each year to share a residency with two South African writers. In this way, the partners encourage cross-pollination between the writing of writers from different backgrounds and strive to enrich the body of literature here and abroad. There are no mentors involved and both emerging and established writers of all genres are invited to apply.