by Nadeema Musthan | Dec 14, 2021 | Our News
On 17 March 2021, FunDza hosted it’s first introductory workshop for 18 young people selected to be the inaugural members of the FunDza Fellowship programme. The plan: to take this group on an exciting writing journey that we hoped would inform, challenge and...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 28, 2020 | Our News
The National Arts Council funded FunDza’s ‘Me With You’ online writing workshops in June this year – a first for FunDza and a very rewarding experience for both the participants and the facilitators. You can read more about the workshop here. Out of the three workshop...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 28, 2020 | Our News |
FunDza has a mentoring programme where talented young writers are paired with professional writer mentors to guide them through the writing of one of FunDza’s weekly short stories. This is an incredible opportunity for young writers to hone their writing skills and...
by Team Fundza | Aug 27, 2018 | Our News |
“Go For It!” – this is the title of the first short story to be published in FunDza’s ‘After School Action Series’, a special project funded through the Western Cape After School Innovation Fund. The series of five short stories aims to inspire young...
by Team Fundza | Feb 21, 2017 | Our News |
Zimkhitha Mlanzeli went off to an interview with the Children’s Radio Foundation. She got more than she bargained for. Just by chance she bumped into a Fanz writer she’s been working with, but has never met. In her words… *** I walk into the building, unsure where to...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 21, 2017 | Our News
The Sunday Tribune in KwaZulu-Natal ran a Valentine’s Day Special that gave readers a taste of FunDza’s fabulous short stories that can be read and enjoyed on FunDza’s mobi site (fundza.mobi). As the feature coincided with Valentine’s day, of course they selected hot...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 19, 2017 | Our News
Since 2014 we’ve been running a flagship project sponsored by the National Arts Council and called “Mentoring Our Future Writers”. Saturday, 18 February, saw us close the book on the final chapter of this inspiring and heart-warming endeavour in...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 14, 2016 | Our News |
FunDza’s ‘Mentoring Young Writers programme’ is something I am particularly proud of. For the last three years we have run this programme, starting in the Western Cape, then Gauteng, and this year in KZN. Every time we start the programme I feel daunted by the...
by Team Fundza | Oct 30, 2015 | Our News
By Ros Haden For the past two years one of the highlights for me has been our “Mentoring Young Writers” project. This pairs emerging ‘mentee’ writers with established ‘mentor’ writers to produce two short stories linked in interesting ways. This year writers were...
by Team Fundza | Aug 31, 2015 | Our News
The National Arts Council is sponsoring a second round of writing mentorships for FunDza, this time in Gauteng. Young aspiring writers have been paired with experienced authors in the Mentoring Our Future Writers Project. In this, each member of the pair writes a...
