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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Erasing the colonial and colonization out of Africa

What the future holds for South Africa is more poverty, more polarization between the haves and the have nots if our leaders in government...

The Quiet Death of Lonmin

Their souls are silent now. Shot execution style. Flowers do not grow on abnormality. At first, I saw them everywhere. They...

Special Report: The Scrapbook of a Bipolar

The reason I am writing this is to help someone who is in the same situation where I found myself eighteen years ago so...

The Afternoon of Shakespeare’s Mind (Part 3)

Perfume. Coming back to you. Half of my life’s work so far has been written in the vein of tragedy and when I have...

Shakespeare’s Nervous Breakdown (Part Two)

I owe people money and I am writing again. I must tell you. I love you my darling. I hope that you are not...

Shakespeare’s Cry in autumn (Part 1)

I am a martyr. My blood twitching in my flesh, every bone, platelet and cell. I know my voice now. It is a claw....

Session with the Psychologist

I plunge into the sudden glare of fury, hysteria and trepidation. There is a primal scream inside each of my hypomanic brain cells. ...

Good advice: Rilke’s Gift to the World

So all I see is young artists and they ask me how they can publish their work, how they can become better writers? It...

Assia Wevill

Journal entry In these early days Assia Wevill needs proof. Will a village life be enough for us? I am planting...

Ingrid Jonker’s Black Butterflies

Let us tell ghost stories. Jonker is a ghost of her former self, but she is still in the land of the living —...

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