The Life Righting Collective runs courses to encourage self-exploration through life writing, raises funds for course fees and brings people together to share their stories and grow community.

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BOOK REVIEW: A DUTIFUL BOY BY MOHSIN ZAIDI

We all share the very human need to belong: to our families, our clan, our culture, our tribe. Feeling that we belong is no small thing: it can feel like […]

Poetry in McGregor 2021

Written by Julia Norrish and Inge Van Niekerk Poets – spanning the full spectrum from self-proclaimed novices, to the published and multi-award winning – gather annually on even ground in […]

Wild Poetry

In the Garden of the Beloved: the theme of this year’s poetry festival in McGregor. It was only afterwards, when I got home, fat with poetry, that I realised I’d […]

The reviews keep on coming!

Another lovely review for This is how it is. Thank you to Margaret von Klemperer and The Witness, who published this review on Monday 14 October 2019. 'Accomplished and entertaining work'. If you […]

Book review: Open and The Tender Bar

Open by Andre Agassi (Knopf, 2009) and The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) At the end of Andre Agassi’s superbly written memoir Open, there are two pages of […]

Book review: Logical Family

Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin, published on 10 March 2017 by Harper Collins: R291.00 This is the long-awaited ‘real story’ of the much-loved Tales of the City author, Armistead […]

Book review: Wild

It’s 1995 and we’re on the 2 633 mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) with a young woman who’s using 1 100 miles of it as life repair. She’s in the […]

Anthology Review in the SAMJ

We are delighted to see Janet Giddy's review of This Is How It Is in the South African Medical Journal. You can read it online here or below. Thank you so […]

Book review: An Unquiet Mind

Mandatory reading for anyone whose life has been affected by their own or others’ mental illness...

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The Life Righting Collective runs courses to encourage self-exploration through life writing, raises funds for course fees and brings people together to share their stories and grow community.

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