Feminist writer and researcher. 📚 Adulting101 (Kwela, 2022) The Fall (Kwela, 2020), Living While Feminist (Kwela, 2020) Feminism Is (Kwela).
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Excited to be hosting my first ten writing workshops this year. Sign up for more information, here
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Monday digest of South African writing on Substack - 7 - 13 February 2026 open.substack.com/pub/southa…
Want to write a love story? Or learn more about the elements to a good romance? Maybe you’re writing a mystery, thriller, or literary story with a love story at its core?
I’ll be talking about tips, techniques and making sure you write up a storm.
Come join! DM for details
This week's digest of writing features 129 new pieces. Take a look!
Friday digest of South African writing on Substack - 6 February 2026 open.substack.com/pub/southa…
Friday digest of South African writing on Substack - 23 January 2026
103 new pieces by South Africans writing on Substack open.substack.com/pub/southa…
Here's an overview of the creative writing workshops I'll be running in the first half of this year. Hope to see some of you at them!
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Januworry? Payday blues? I've got you. Sign up for the January and February writing workshops and only pay in Feb.
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I've set the dates and themes for my creative writing workshops for the first half of 2026. If you've never written, want to write, have written a little bit, or are a regular writer, these workshops are for you. jenthorpewrites.substack.com…
Employment legislation and families - are they opposed? open.substack.com/pub/thinki…
If you enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/jenthorpewrites
You can now watch Friday's webinar on self-publishing with the help of Staging Post here open.substack.com/pub/jentho…
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Oh my God! This is phenomenally effective communication! Fantastic narrative device with the right amount of exaggeration that lands the message with a bang, while also sending chills down the spine of the target audience (parents of young children)! Excellent work by the Irish agency Core Creative.
#advertising #creativity
Friday Digest of South African writers on Substack - 28 November. Some great thoughts, words and ideas here
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
You forgot to add the words 'white male' in that title.
Try
- Nadia Davids
- Yewande Omotoso
- Makhosazana Xaba
- Leila Aboulela
- Carmen Maria Machado
- Octavia E. Butler
- Alice Wlaker
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Bessie Head
- Lesley Nneka Arimah
- N.K. Jemisin
I could go on
Thanks Nicklaus! Glad you enjoyed it.
Adulting...it's confusing, it's expensive and nobody ever tells you how to do it right. Luckily, @Jen_Thorpe's Adulting 101 is here to tell me all the things about love and life and navigating my damn taxes I really should've learned aaages ago. Great read!
Friday Digest of SA Substack Writers: 21 November 2025 open.substack.com/pub/southa…
A place for South African Substack writers to share their work open.substack.com/pub/southa…
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⚡️BREAKING: Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, spoke after nearly 20 months in captivity, expressing shock at global silence.
“For two years I was starved, I went in starving and came out starving,” he said. “They hung our bodies day and night, naked, abused and insulted us. They told us, ‘We killed your children. Gaza is gone.’”
Translation: @translatingpal