Through workshops that focus on collective reading and writing, Ukuthula’s workshops address four questions to South African women writers: How can we place our voices in conversation with the larger international community? How do we harness and learn from our sisters and peers in other places and contexts, while at the same time giving voice to the specificities of our context, time and experiences? How do we find new innovative forms and push the limits of representation so as to interrogate, reject, embrace, deface and bear out, on the page, our pain and anger and at the same time transcend the intimate and public wreckages of our present moment? How do we create something defiantly and beautifully alive out of so much violence, death and dying?
