The Woman and Her Stars events 2026
Tuesday, 10 March at 5:30 for 6:00 pm at Liberty Books, Peregrine Farmstall, N2 and R321, Elgin with Christy Weyer. Dress for a Night with the Stars to stand the chance of winning a heavenly hamper. RSVP Christy@libertybooks.co.za or 072 350 3592.
Thursday, 12 March at 5:30 pm at the Amphitheatre opposite Wordsworth Books, Mainstream Mall, Princess Street, Hout Bay with Nancy Richards. RSVP houtbay@wordsworth.co.za.
Saturday, 14 March from 09:00 am at Tokai Book Fair, Tokai Library, Tokai Road (between the intersections of Palm and Ebony Roads). For more information, email Tokai.Library@capetown.gov.za or call 071 221 4329
Thursday, 19 March at 6:30 pm at the National Research Foundation South African Astronomical Observatory (NRF SAAO) Cape Town at 1 Observatory Road, Observatory, Cape Town, with Pippa Hudson with Exclusive Books Cavendish in attendance. This will be followed by a talk about the history of the observatory and, weather permitting, star gazing. Book your free ticket (seating is limited and tickets are essential) here https://www.quicket.co.za/events/362271-book-launch-the-woman-and-her-stars-by-penny-haw/
Wednesday, 25 March at 5:30 pm at Love Books, The Bamboo Lifestyle Centre, 53 Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg, with Fiona Snyckers. RSVP kate@lovebooks.co.za or 011 726 7408.
Thursday, 26 March at 5:00 pm at Exclusive Books Hyde Park at Shop UM 30, Upper Mall, Hyde Park Corner, Jan Smuts Ave and Winnie Mandela Dr, Craighall, Johannesburg with Karen Lane. RSVP: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events#?event-id=72205
Wednesday, 15 April at 10:30 am with The Book Revue at 7 Michael Storer Avenue, Constantia with Pippa Smith. RSVP: pippa@thebookrevue.co.za
15 to 17 May, at the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Keep an eye out for details and the full programme at www.flf.co.za
Saturday 13 June at 10:00 am in the auditorium of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) in Hermanus as part of the FynArts Festival. Check the FynArts Festival programme for details at http://www.hermanusfynarts.co.za
Follow Me to Africa events 2025
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at the amphitheatre at Mainstream Mall in Hout Bay at 17h30 for 18h00 with Gail Gilbride. RSVP houtbay@wordsworth.co.za
Thursday, 26 February 2025 at Kelvin Grove Club in Claremont with Pippa Smith of The Book Revue at 18h00 for 18h30. RSVP pippa@thebookrevue.co.za
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 at Liberty Books, Peregrine Farmstall in Grabouw with Christy Weyer at 17h30 for 18h00. RSVP Christy@libertybooks.co.za
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at the Hermanus Library, Hermanus with Susan Booyens at 18h00. RSVP hermanuslibrary@overstrand.gov.za
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch with Eva Mazza at 10h30. RSVP events@oudeleeskamer.org
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at Exclusive Books Constantia with Nancy Richards at 17h30 for 18h00. RSVP here
Friday, 16 May to Sunday, 18 May 2025, Franschhoek Literary Festival in Franschhoek. You’ll find the event programme here https://www.flf.co.za/
Saturday, 24 May 2025, Kingsmead Book Fair, Rosebank, Johannesburg. You’ll find the event programme here.
Launching The Woman at the Wheel 2023
October 2023. The international launch of The Woman at the Wheel was celebrated on 3 October at an online event hosted by Swamp Fox Bookstore in Iowa, USA where I was interviewed by one of my favourite authors, Terah Shelton Harris. What a joy it was!
Three in-person events are planned near Cape Town. If you’re able, please join me at one of the launches.
I’ll be talking to Nancy Richards at Wordsworth Books in Longbeach Mall in Noordhoek on Thursday 12 October (17h00 for 17h30). Please RSVP by emailing longbeach@wordsworth.co.za.
On Thursday 19 October (17h30 for 18h00), I’ll be at Exclusive Books Constantia, where Pippa Hudson will interview me. Please RSVP events@exclusivebooks.co.za.
Later in the month (Tuesday 31 October, 18h00 for 18h30), I’ll be talking to Christy Weyer at Liberty Books in Grabouw. RSVP Christy@libertybooks.co.za.
Launching Miss Cust
January and February 2023. It was a great pleasure to hold South African launches for The Invincible Miss Cust at Liberty Books in Grabouw and Exclusive Books in Cavendish Square, Claremont. Photographed is author of Cat Therapy and Under the African Sun, Gail Gilbride interviewing me at the Cavendish event.
Award winner
September 2022. The Wilderness Between Us was named winner of the 2022 Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award in the general category. The announcement was made at the WFWA Gala Event in New Mexico in the US and award was couriered to South Africa.
School visit
November 2019. What a pleasure it was to chat to grade five learners of Hillcrest Primary School in KwaZulu-Natal who had Nicko, The Tale of a Vervet Monkey on an African Farm as a set work book in 2019.
Penny Haw 