On being shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times Fiction Prize Last night (Saturday 18th May) I had the extraordinary experience of being shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2013….
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University of Johannesburg Prizes Judge Craig MacKenzie Comments on Winning Books: Life Underwater and Entanglement by Lindsay on Jul 2nd, 2013 Steven Boykey Sidley takes the UJ Debut Prize for his riveting first…
PRESS RELEASE 15 July 2013 Subject: Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley optioned for feature film production From: Pan Macmillan South Africa Stepping Out, the novel by award-winning author…
Supposedly, there are only 7 plots around from which all stories are constructed. You know – the rags-to-riches story, the redemption story, the requited (or occasionally unrequited) love story. Triumph…
PRESS RELEASE 08 August 2013 Subject: Entanglement and Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley signed by French publishing house Belfond From: Pan Macmillan South Africa PAN MACMILLAN SOUTH…
A Week on the Beach We just came back from Mozambique, where we had rented a house on a deserted stretch of picture postcard beach. It has always seemed to…
I just attended the Open Book Festival 2013 in a gently bracing Cape Town spring. This is one of South Africa’s 4 major literary festivals, the others being Franschoek, and…