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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When bad mothers happen

N obody talks about the abuse or the familiar hands that we suffered it from now that we're (my siblings and I) are...

I speak of freedom

T he divine meeting of the class system in South Africa, the failure of our curriculum, the failure for the 2016 matriculants, the...

‘Call it a difficult night’: Book Review

M ishka Hoosen is young. She is also intelligent. She is brave and she is brilliant. She is also very clever, funny and...

Gandhi and potential

Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...

A coming of age story

Illusions like self-esteem, self-worth, the Sigmund Freud’s ego, superego, ID, and our body image. Those images are not real. Nothing really of substance. They...

Spring: A passionate life in words

The leaves wastes dance with confidence in the air. The wind reminds me of the mysterious chill of autumn. An eloquent, articulate state of...

Coloured Trauma

I don’t remember the past. For a long time, in schools in Port Elizabeth. Swaziland and Johannesburg I was very unhappy with myself. I...

A letter to my fellow countrymen in South Africa

Let us start with what makes me unhappy comrades. This undiscovered bridge called language or rather mother tongue. The life of the artist, poet,...

Millennials, peace and war in our time

They have a name. Millennial. Revolutionary. Comrade. Countryman. Youth. They have shamed us into thinking what was impossible before. The rest of us are...

Why I write the way I do

In futurity I want to find new realities in the notes from the universe. I think that is why I fluctuate from putting pen...

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