2012 Workshop- South Africa

The 2012 workshop was held at Volmoed in South Africa, near Hermanus, with ten writers from across the continent and two facilitators, acclaimed South African writer and 2008 Caine Prize winner Henrietta Rose-Innes and award winning writer of mixed British/Sudanese heritage, Jamal Mahjoub. 

2012 Workshop participants in South Africa:  Mehul Gohil, Rehana Rossouw, Lauri Kubuitsile, Rachel Zadok, Grace Khunou, Yewande Omotoso, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Jamal Mahjoub, Beatrice Lamwaka, Tendai Mwanaka, Brenda Mukami, Waigwa Ndiangui.

From the Writers' Perspective

Brenda Mukami talks to the Caine Prize Administrator, Lizzy Attree, about the story she wrote while on the 2012 Caine Prize workshop in South Africa earlier this month "Table Manners".

Waigwa Ndiangui talks to Lizzy Attree about the 2012 workshop and his short story "Bloody Buda".

Mehul Gohil talks to Lizzy Attree about the 2012 workshop and his short story "Elephants Chained to Big Kennels".

2011 Shortlisted author Lauri Kubuitsile talks to Lizzy Attree about the 2012 workshop and her story "Moving Forward" now published in the Caine Prize anthology: African Violet and other stories.