News & Views

In the Garden of the Beloved: the theme of this year’s poetry festival in McGregor. It was only afterwards, when I got home, fat with poetry, that I realised I’d arrived at McGregor dry-souled. [...]

We're delighted to introduce you to LRC member Matthew Caretti and his award-winning publication of Harvesting Stones.

The LRC exco are always looking for ways to raise funds so that we can continue to sponsor writers and to publish the stories that come out of the courses so that South Africans can get to know [...]

Desiree-Anne Martin is part of the LRC team putting together a bold and brilliant crowdfunding campaign

This is the first time the Life Righting Collective has published stories, and every aspect of the process has brought up interesting questions. Editing someone else’s work can present dilemmas. [...]

Dear Life Righting Collective friends and members, Some of you will have heard the good news that Jacana is partnering us for the printed anthology. Publication date is set for May. We are [...]

2017 was an incredible year which included the launch of the Life Righting Collective. I see you looking about you, puzzled. When was the launch? Why wasn’t I invited? Well, the launch [...]

Welcome to the launch of the website of the Life Righting Collective, a non-profit organisation run by a small, merry band of writers. Each of us has experienced for ourselves how learning the [...]

The launch of the LRC webpage falls almost exactly a year to the day after the seed of the idea came into contact with water. I was chatting to Lucy Alexander and Giles Griffin after yet another [...]