Abigail George

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Abigail George is an author, a screenwriter and an award winning poet. She is a Pushcart Prize, two-time Best of the Net nominated, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize longlisted, Writing Ukraine Prize shortlisted, Identity Theory's Editor's Choice, Ink Sweat Tears Pick of the Month poet/writer, and 2023 Winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Arts Council, one from the Centre of the Book and another from ECPACC. She won a national high school writing competition in her teens. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and for AOL.com, the USA Today Network and The Tennessean. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @abigailgeorgepoet.

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An Introduction To Identity In The South African Context

Today, we as individuals are continually engaged in evolution, involving ourselves in relationships and cannot exist in isolation from the world, from modern society,...

The Spoiled Identity

The drug addict has a wounded brain. There has been some or partial damage and injury to the brain, henceforth brain damage occurs. There...

For the Drug Addict in the Northern Areas of Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)

We are living in a Renaissance, the African Renaissance. Attachment to the anticipation for the future arises from having high levels of a false...

The Rice Miracle

The greatest nation, it is said, is imagination. I woke up one day and realised that prodigals were knocking at my door. The unshaven,...

Nthikeng Mohlele On Writing: Choice, Consciousness, Self, The Novelist, The Man And The Artistic Life

Nthikeng Mohlele was partly raised in Limpopo and Tembisa Township, and attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained a BA in dramatic...

The Poet Eugene Skeef: “Violent Seed”, Quiet Dreams And The Trust Of Strangers

AG: Please introduce yourself. ES: My name is Eugene Skeef. I am a South African living in London since I went into exile from my...

The Straight Path: In Praise Of Israeli and Palestinian Poets

I am writing this to honour the dead. Every single person that's experienced affliction during this, what they call, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Like Yehuda Amichai,...

Another year of sadness for Sudan

I didn’t go to the poet Mzi Mahola’s funeral. Ernest, another well-known Eastern Cape poet, said that he would give me a lift in...

For my mother

In December of 2023, almost a year ago, the prize giving ceremony of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award was held at the...

King of My Castle

Early in 2024, while my baby niece lay sleeping beside me I searched through the channels on YouTube for something to watch and discovered...

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