After finishing my thesis I feel a bit lost. It took up so much of my time: I didn’t read newspapers or watch the news, I didn’t read for leisure (a loved past-time), I didn’t watch my favourite television programmes and I didn’t participate in the skinnering and fighting so prevalent in a big family … Continue reading After blues
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Surviving GBV
My father was a priest in the Anglican Church. Yesterday (9 August) was Women’s Day in South Africa but also my father’s birthday. I’ve always thought it appropriate that a day dedicated to women should be on his birthday, because he had seven daughters and raised them to be strong, independent women.A prayer that I … Continue reading Surviving GBV
Graduate
Hi friends, I graduated in April 2023 and I'm so happy. Finally I have earned a PhD in Creative Writing and can call myself doctor. After so much hard work it feels unreal. I had two international examiners and one local. I was worried about the international examiners because at all stages of writing my … Continue reading Graduate
Review: Bark On by Mason Boyles
From its first line, Bark On draws you into the world of the most intense physical endurance sport: the triathlon, consisting of swimming, cycling, and long distance running. Athletes are prepared to do anything to build their endurance, so they attract the type of coach who can get them there. In Bark On, Benji Newton … Continue reading Review: Bark On by Mason Boyles
We Endure Abuse to Survive, Part 1 by Karen Tate
An important topic. Most of the time abuse is hidden, leaving the victim even more isolated
I considered myself savvy and educated and an advocate for peace, fairness and equality. I thought abuse was something that happened to others, not me. But it was happening to me. It had happened to me and I didn’t see the danger signs as my life careened off the road. I became aware abuse and the resulting trauma can happen to anyone. I came to realize we have to examine all aspects of our lives for both blatant and insidious abuse. We must recognize it and take steps to eradicate abuse from our lives and society. That’s where I’ve been on for the last five years and I’m only now able to begin to share that journey. To write a new book, Normalizing Abuse, and bring my radio show, Voices of the Sacred Feminine, back on the air after a long hiatus.
Part One
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Looking for a publisher
Hi, I finished my PhD novel The Buried Chameleon. The title relates to a practice among the indigenous Khoi tribes. During drought they buried a chameleon to bring rain. A short synopsis Amberike from Abyssinia, 10 years old, arrives at the Cape of Good Hope with her older sister, Gilda (12). They are housed in … Continue reading Looking for a publisher
Manifestations and Memory: A Look At Trauma, Hauntings, and “Rememory”
I was searching for “rememory” one of the processes in my new novel and came across this article. Slave memory in South has largely been repressed and forgotten. Excavating such a history has been a real challenge.
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Sigmund Freud writes that the uncanny is a distinct “class of…frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.” He goes on to rhetorically ask how it is “possible…[for] the familiar [to] become uncanny and frightening.” What frightens us most are the things which we can almost recognize. Sometimes, that almost recognizable thing is memory. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the word “rememory” is used when the main character, Sethe, recalls moments that have been forgotten. She is faced with these uncanny re-memories—moments that are not quite familiar because they have been tucked away for so long—and at their sudden manifestation, becomes haunted by their existence.
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How to Get a Fellowship: Tips to Write a Kickass Proposal
Writing fellowship/grant proposals and putting together applications for these can be both time-consuming and emotionally taxing. It’s a long process, success rates for the competitive ones are anywhere between 5-7%, and you have to make time for it during what would already be a busy semester or quarter. And there’s a good chance that you will not get it. I know… I have been there… a LOT.
If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I am a proponent of perseverance. 🙂 So it won’t come as a surprise to you that I have written more fellowship proposals in the last four years than anyone else in my PhD program. Even though I have not won most of the fellowships I have applied for, I still have the highest number of fellowships anyone has received in my cohort. So the first advice I have for you is to keep…
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A new poem I’m working on
STAG-LERS ABOARD A dominant partner will brawl to regain lost control like an alpha god will fight to the end the will to win so severe The law becomes an obstacle The will becomes … law. A steamroller will crush to rebuild a lost path in the jungle of She and He no matter the … Continue reading A new poem I’m working on
Cornelia Smith Fick 