New Voices Publishing has structured this initiative to be presented as a Short Story Competition within South African schools – and one day, all African Schools. It will harness the skills of the teachers and peers as supportive editors who will select the best of the best in their school. New Voices Publishing will compile the selected short stories into a beautiful compilation which will be proudly owned by the school. The income from the sales of these books will go back into that school’s literacy projects. There is also a hope that lower income schools will be ‘adopted’ by more affluent schools and included in the contest. Once SASSY (South African Short Stories from our Youth) has enough schools taking part, we will create a Schools Book Festival (SASSY Fest) where all the schools come together to share, swop, read, and buy!
Our vision is to have the competition yearly, in order to give all students an opportunity to be published.
We have approached DF MALAN HIGH SCHOOL to take part in the pilot programme for 2021. We are so grateful for Lianne Hugo, who has enthusiastically taken this project under her wing! Thank you for your passion and your eagerness to make a success of this!
Lianne Hugo lhugo@dfmalan.com