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Submit a one page query letter via email to the respective agents below. Does not accept poetry, screenplays, scifi and horror. As mentioned, in south africa, most publishers will accept a manuscript directly from writers check their websites to see. For a quick faq on getting published in south africa, read this guide from the publishers association of south africa. You dont need a literary agent to make a submission to penguin random. The beloved country since the end of apartheid by r w johnson after mandela. If you want to find publishers or literary agents in south africa, please contact pasa, the publishers association of south africa. The volumes essays include an investigation of representation and selfstylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in innercity johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between johannesburg and maputo, mozambiques capital. She lives in cape town, south africa but works globally.
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How do i find a literary agent if i would like one. Get the list of south africa literary aents in the pubmatch publishers directory. List of south african literary journals publishing in. At this website, agents posted, in their opinions, the worst and most comical submittals they have ever received.
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Electronic versions of your full manuscript should be in one file and not separate chapters. Because a handfull of lazy, egotistical personal preferences called literary agents stand in our way. Our focus is on african fiction and nonfiction books and high quality cook books. The jacana literary foundation jlf is a notforprofit organisation which seeks to promote and foster excellent writing from south and southern africa through a number of initiatives. Barbara adair foreign rights, blackbird literary agency. We know what is going on, we know where the business is heading.
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