Gail Dendy

Gail Dendy was first
published by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and shared a poetry
collection with Peabody Winner and Oscar Nominee Norman Corwin. Her
collections have appeared, variously, in Britain, South Africa and the
United States, and many are held in the National English Literary
Museum, Grahamstown; the New Alexandria Library, Egypt; and The Poetry
Library, South Bank Centre, London. Gail has also written plays, short
stories, a novel, radio poetry programmes, radio news bulletins, and
academic papers and journal articles. Accolades include, inter alia:
Winner: SA PEN Millennium Competition (Playwriting); Finalist: Herman
Charles Bosman Award (Poetry), South African Science Fiction Society
Award (Short Story); Shortlisted: Thomas Pringle Award (Short Story),
Sol Plaatje/European Union Poetry Award 2011 and 2012; Longlisted:
Plough Poetry Prize (UK). She achieved ‘Highly Commended’ in the Poetry
Space Competition (UK) in 2014 and 2015 and for her unpublished
novel/fictionalized memoir in the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award 2014. Long
listings include The Twenty in 20 Project (the aim of which was to
identify the best South African English-language short stories of the
first two decades of democracy), Short Story Day Africa 2014, and the
Sol Plaatje/European Poetry Award 2014 and 2017.