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Pip Smith was a Faber Writing Scholarship winner and now leads our program Kickstart Your Novel: The Opening Chapter and Beyond.

Cate Carlton has recently died yet is somehow able to watch her family from the afterlife. In the Quiet is a striking debut.

The eloquence of buzz phrases like ‘representation matters’ didn’t exist 25 years ago when I was a wog girl growing up in the bush.

The Serpent’s Secret, written by Sayantani Dasgupta, is a humorous, action-packed middle-grade fantasy debut. 

Like all of my favourite stories, NovioletBulawayo’s We Need New Names, opened the door to a world vastly different to the one I inhabit.