Pinelands Library - 2023
AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL - 2022
Joanne will be there. Looking forward to the African Book Festival.
DEATH AND THE AFTER PARTIES - 2021
Blown Away by Books - 2020
Fans braved the wind, load shedding, Coronavirus, and the dangerous streets of Fish Hoek to reach the library where a fabulous line up of local and internationally acclaimed authors shared inside information about their lives, their books and their writing process. Thank you to Máire Fisher, Paul Kilfoil, Karen Gray-Kilfoil, Fish Hoek library, and more, for taking 2020’s Blown Away by Books to the next level. Looking forward to next year!
Open Book Festival - 2019
Joanne Hichens and Karina Szczurek launched HAIR: Weaving & Unpicking Stories of Identity, at the Open Book Festival, in Cape Town, in September 2019.
the franschhoek literary festival - 2018
Joanne Hichens interviews top South African thriller writers, Sally Andrew, Karin Brynard and Irma Venter.
the franschhoek literary festival - 2018
Joanne Hichens interviews FunDza writers, Ndibulele Sotondoshe, Nandipha Tshabane and Zimkhitha Mlanzeli, all bravely telling home truths in home-grown stories.
Die Laughing - 2016
Incredible Journey, caine prize - 2015
Joanne Hichens and Tim Richman, publisher of Incredible Journey, toast Lidudmalingani Mqomboti and Bongani Kona, both short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing, for their short stories in Incredible Journey. Lidudmalingani went on to win the top prize.
Sweet Paradise - 2015
A lineup of SA authors at an Exclusive Books (Cavendish) book signing.
Bloody Satisfied - September 2013
