The website karoospace.co.za reporting on the upcoming Veld Soirée in Cradock, 22–24 September 2017.
Author: Etienne
Media: Van Heerden at Open Book Festival

Photo: Susan Bloemhof at the Breytenbach Gallery
Media: Festival in Cradock
Photo: Writing the self, Open Book Festival

Photo: Open Book Festival

Susan Bloemhof’s painting of Etienne van Heerden

Susan Bloemhof’s series of paintings of writers such as Wilma Stockenström, Breyten Breytenbach and others will form part of the group exhibition Uitdagend skeppend at the Breytenbach Gallery, Wellington, 15 September to 19 October 2017.
Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée: HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers

HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers will be performing at Darryl David’s Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée at the Buffelshoek Lodge and the Victoria Hotel, Cradock. More details here.
Van Heerden’s last MA Creative Writing students

After retiring from the University of Cape Town in December 2016, Etienne van Heerden is now emeritus professor and guided his last MA Creative Writing students through their examination processes in 2017. All three these students developed novel manuscripts under his supervision and all three received distinctions for their dissertations. Beyers de Vos, Mike Hardaker and Wilken Calitz. Beyers and Mike wrote in English, and Wilken in Afrikaans.
Workshop in Bloemfontein
Presenting a workshop on beginnings and making it strange at the Bloemfonteinse Skrywersvereniging, Bloemfontein.



