Adrian Fleur is a South African writer based in the United States.
She’s been published with Sunspot Lit, Writers Space Africa, Decolonial Passage, The Write Launch and Silver Rose Magazine.
Her other work has been longlisted for Fish Publishing’s Short Memoir Prize and The Masters Review’s Fiction Awards, shortlisted for New Millennium’s 49th Writing Awards, and placed as a semi-finalist in the Short(er) Fiction Contest by American Short Fiction.
She is currently finishing up her first novel Zithande, which is set in a remote village in the Eastern Cape—home to many beloved activists and leaders such as Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, Chris Hani, Oliver Tambo, Florence Matomela, Govan Mbeki, Walter and Albertina Sisulu, Mama Winnie and Madiba. The novel explores the power of women’s friendship across class and racial lines, collective resilience in the face of grief and poverty, and the deliberate act of seeking joy.
Publications
The Key Is To Keep Saying Sorry in Sunspot Literary Journal, digitally & in print (2024)
The Girl, published in Writers Space Africa (2024)
A Post-Apartheid Education For Girls, published in Decolonial Passage (2023)
Seven Summers, published in Silver Rose Literary Magazine (2022)
The Bicycle Crash, published in The Write Launch (2021)
Shortlists, longlists, & honourable mentions
Residencies, fellowships & conferences
The Key Is To Keep Saying Sorry - Best of Fiction in Sunspot Lit’s Rigel Contest (2024)
Do-Overs - longlisted for Fish Publishing’s Short Memoir Prize (2023)
Ode - longlisted for The Masters Review’s Spring Small Fiction Awards (2023)
A Post-Apartheid Education For Girls - finalist for the 49th New Millennium Writing Awards (2020)
A Post-Apartheid Education For Girls, Whiskey Jokes, How To Tell If You Love Someone - semi-finalists for American Short Fiction’s Short(er) Fiction Contest (2020)
Poet & Author Fellowship for Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing’s Summer Conference (2024)
Writer-in-residence at Jentel Artist Residency for January 2024
Finalist for the Writing by Writers residencies (2024)
