The Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture will be hosting the 10th Annual NC Writer's Festival. The three day event will be officially opened by MEC Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley in the Frances Baard District. It will be celebrated under the theme "Our Roots in Words - Stories that speak to the South African soul".