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At Shofar Books, we are proud to publish and distribute books written by talented authors, speakers and poets from across the world.
We are an independent publishing house, with offices in Cape Town and Gqerbeha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa.
We pride ourselves on our wide range of genres and giving ambitious authors a platform that is so rarely available in the publishing industry today.
All of our books and authors are enormously special in their own way. We believe that a story can evoke a large range of emotions; they can make you laugh, cry, angry, alert and, most importantly, change a life.

Literary Artists in and around Eastern Cape can nominate their work for the first Eastern Cape Literary Awards 2024. The event will be on 7 December at Amwazi South African Museum of Literature in Makhanda (Grahamstown).

Submissions are now closed.

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