Dawn Kennedy

Irish journalist Dawn Kennedy has lived in Cape Town, South Africa for the past 23 years. A prolific writer, her work has been regularly published in major publications.

A respected columnist, arts writer and copywriter, in addition Ms Kennedy has held several editorial positions on publications, including, Sync’Up Magazine (Editor), Varsity Daze (editor), O Magazine (Feature Editor) and 021 magazine (Co-Editor).

As the senior lecturer in Journalism at City Varsity, Ms Kennedy taught popular courses in long-form non-fiction and creative writing to both students and adult learners and published the kindle book, Writing Features for Websites and Magazines based on the course content that she developed.

In 2015, Ms Kennedy was awarded funding by ANFASA (Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa) to write a work of narrative non-fiction, Saving South African Cycads and is currently in the process of publishing her first work of narrative non-fiction.