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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The Northern Areas of Gqeberha

The Coloured identity in South Africa has been massacred and annihilated from beginning to end. Gangsterism and the modus operandi of gang warfare has...

Diary entry and a Christmas interlude in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

There is a dwelling that I exist in. This far out between heaven and hell she is, my mother is still beautiful. She was...

Beauties of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

And there it was. The strange machine of talking to myself. In the black and white photograph, I appeared as any stranger would. Dazed, worldly,...

A Poet’s Life: Adventures in the Pixelated Maelstrom

I’m fourteen. We’re at the gateway to the funhouse. We’re standing on burning sea sand, water, ocean waves within reach, the centre of summer,...

To be a woman in a movement for self-transformation and change

“Are you happy with your life daddy? Are you listening to me?” came a voice from deep within me. “I am in ways that you...

The theory and era of soft intelligence and artificial intelligence

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

Sobriety and Alcoholism

I am not coping because I am not the doctor. Because I am not the one who is fluent in the doctor’s language no...

Intelligent Progress, Alien Perspectives And Preparation For Illness

I see life through a blue filter. Light is filtered out and all I can see is shadow. In shades in the dark something...

On Days Such as This -Poetry Book Review

On Days Such as This, Gail Dendy. Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2020.ISBN: 978-1-990922-48-0. 60pp The poet wrestles with an intimate flashback, the perception of future, and becomes...

Writer, Chameleon, Bipolar

I feel as if I am in a constant state of imbalance. It's like being on a neverending rollercoaster ride. My life in writing...

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