Writersports 2026
Who will walk away as this year’s champion?
Wrap up your Festival in the company of Krystle Zara Appiah, Mia Arderne, Dan Corder, Selali Fiamanya, Sue Nyathi and Preven Reddy.
Festival Director, Mervyn Sloman, returns as MC.
Who will walk away as this year’s champion?
Wrap up your Festival in the company of Krystle Zara Appiah, Mia Arderne, Dan Corder, Selali Fiamanya, Sue Nyathi and Preven Reddy.
Festival Director, Mervyn Sloman, returns as MC.
Mia Arderne and Preven Reddy discuss how to emerge from naaihood and achieve comedy success with Mohale Mashigo.
Artificial intelligence is already outperforming humans in multiple domains, and many of us seem perfectly happy to sleepwalk into species obsolescence. Worse, AI refuses to stay in its lane: having mastered all the boring technical tasks, it is now producing art, music and fiction. But humanity still has one thing over AI for now: it can’t be funny.
Using the possible extinction of the human race as a cheerful point of departure, writer and journalist Rebecca Davis presents an hour-long comic exploration of how we got here, where we may be going, and multiple unhinged digressions about the strange choices we have made along the way.
A gloriously unserious examination of technology, family, work, civilisation and whatever else happens to be bothering her by September.
Due to foul language, not suitable for kids or delicate adult ears.
Multi award-winning comedians Yaaseen Barnes and Dan Corder return with their big show on another mad year in South Africa, and it’s not even nearly done yet!
Get ready to laugh, learn, and remember so much special South African insanity.
Tom Eaton, Sue Nyathi and Puseletso Tsotetsi speak to Shawn Buck about keeping their readers glued to the page.
Sven Axelrad, Thandi Moagi and Cathrine Phiri speak to Qarnita Loxton about the good, the bad and the ugly in love stories.