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Pa Gya! 2025 Opens on Friday 17th October

The 2025 edition of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra (17th to 19th October 2025) opens at Goethe-Institut Ghana, Cantonments, Accra on Friday 17th October 2025.

The opening ceremony starts at 5.30 PM and wlll immediately be followed by programming, starting with the headline event, Past Forward: Archives, Photos and Storytelling: Judith Opoku-Boateng in conversation with Prof Esi Sutherland-Addy, with subsequent sessions of poetry performance by Babs Gons and the dramatic reading of Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's novel My Parent's Marriage performed by Foundspace Productions.

Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra is a three day literary arts festival featuring literary activities and exhibitions: readings, panel discussions, poetry performances, lectures, story-telling sessions, book launches, literary prize awards, comics and graphic novels, exhibitions and more.

Pa Gya! is organised by Writers Project of Ghana, Goethe-Institut Ghana and Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana.

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We are pleased to announce the workshops which will be going on as part of the 2025 edition of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra from 17th to 19th October 2025 at Goethe-Institut Ghana, Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana, and dotateliers, Accra.

There's somethin gfor everyone: early stage writers, experienced writers, poets, genre fiction and more with Babs Gons, Jeff Allen, Cheryl Ntumy, Pauline van Rensburg, Hondred Percent, Christa Kuljian, Temi Oh, and more! Click through to sign-up.

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