Writers 2000 to host May meeting in Modderfontein

Writers 2000 will host writer and literacy advocate Bontle Senne at their next meeting on May 12.

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Bontle is a writer and literacy advocate for indigenous language children’s literature.

She is a former managing director at the Puku Children’s Literature Foundation, a trustee of Read Educational Trust and a part owner of feminist trade publishing house Modjaji Books.

She was shortlisted for the Golden Baobab Prize in 2014. Her other writing includes an Afrocentric adventure/fantasy series of four books for nine to 12-year-olds called Shadow Chasers.

The venue is the Inyoni Creek Club House, Rand Aid Complex, corner of Modderfontein and Wordsworth roads, Lyndhurst.

The meeting will start at 1.30pm for 2pm and the cost is R20.

For more information about this event or W2000 contact chairperson Michael Cordes on 073 637 6105, agripres@mweb.co.za or membership co-ordinator Antoinette Reis on 072 731 0855, mantoinette@discoverymail.co.za or secretary Meggan Preuss on 079 508 3716, megganpreuss@gmail.com

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