Journaling For All

Arja Salafranca has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped of Illusions, which received the Sanlam Award for poetry and The Fire in which we Burn. Her third poetry collection is Beyond Touch, which was the co-winner in the poetry category of the South African Literary Awards in 2016. Her debut collection of short fiction, The Thin Line, was published in 2010 and was longlisted for the Wole Soyinka Award Arja has participated in a number of writer’s festivals, including the 2010 Women Writers Conference held by the Department of Arts and Culture, the Franschhoek Literary Festival and the Madibaland literary festival, among others.  An anthology of prose and poetry, Glass Jars Among Trees, co-edited with Alan Finlay, was published in 2003. She has also edited two other anthologies of short fiction, The Edge of Things (2009) and Fool’s Gold (2021). She is the recipient of the 1994 and 1999 Sanlam Award, for poetry and fiction, as well as a 2010 DALRO poetry award for poetry. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she specialised in novella writing. Her next book is a collection of creative non-fiction essays, personal essays and journal entries to be published by Modjaji in 2025, provisionally titled, ‘Salt in the Red Cappuccino’.

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