Book Launch:
Breaking the Silence:
Love and Revolution by POWA
We invite you to join People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) to celebrate the launch of Breaking the Silence: Love and Revolution and the call for entries to the 2011 POWA Women’s Writing Project.
About the book
Love and Revolution are two words that are rarely used together. Where love is associated with passion, desire and romance, revolution is often associated with revolt, uprising, riot and change, these seemingly opposing emotions. Yet often when we talk about love, what we are really talking about is not just the feeling of love, but its power to transform us in ways that not even we could have imagined, and the more it begins to appear that love and revolution are in fact two sides of the same coin.
Sometimes the most revolutionary act is to love. And sometimes the revolution is an act of love.
This year, POWA have changed the format of their annual Women’s Writing collection. No longer a competition, the POWA Women’s Writing Project not only accepted blind submissions, but a series of workshops were run all over South Africa, helping women to workshop their writing and hone and sharpen their writing skills.
This year’s collection consists of three sections: poetry, short stories and personal essays that tell of diverse women’s experiences of love; romantic love, love of family, love of friends, love of community. Love that has touched in revolutionary ways that alter the way we see and approach life.
Contents include:
Poetry
- Love and Revolution by Kerry Jane Gutridge
- Lovely Revolution by Luana Malan
- Freedom by Nandi Msezane
- Love, Life and Revolution by Lindiwe Nxumalo
- The True Definition of a Woman by Nthabiseng Josephine Mofolo
- Love… to love? by Rose Tuelo Brock
Short Stories
- The Campaigner by Rose Tuelo Brock
- Granny for Tea by Natisha Parsons
- Uthando Lungulhule by Faith Mkhize Sinethemba
- Sarah and Sorrow by Clairissa Samuels
- Immortality by Lisa Koekemoer
- Love and Revolution by Karen Laine
- You should Know by Nomvelo Myeza
Personal Essays
- Tears in my Coffee by A J Nabi
- Am I my Sister’s Keeper? by Joy Lange
- I can Forgive by Madeleen Theron
- The Uprising by Sophie Hlatshwayo
- My Love, my Revolutionary by NoBuntu Mqulwana
- Love and Revolution by Sibongile Gloria Magagula
- Fifteen Minutes of Hostage Hell by Nicky Kleinhans
Breaking the Silence: Love and Revolution is published by Fanele (an imprint of Jacana Media) in association with POWA – People Opposing Women Abuse.
Event Details
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Venue: Museum Africa,
121 Bree Street, Newtown,
Johannesburg | Map- RSVP: Nehwoh Belinda, POWA,
nehwoh@powa.co.za, 011 642 4345
www.powa.co.zaBook Details
- Breaking the Silence: Love and Revolution POWA
EAN: 9781920196349