Literature
Binyavanga and Chimamanda with participants at the 2010 edition
Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized
by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda
Adichie, from June 23 to July 2 2011. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian
Breweries Plc. Guest writers, including the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer
Binyavanga Wainaina, will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie.
The workshop will take the form of a class. Participants will be assigned a wide
range of reading exercises, as well as daily writing exercises. The aim of the
workshop is to improve the craft of Nigerian writers and to encourage published
and unpublished writers by bringing different perspectives to the art of
storytelling. Participation is limited only to those who apply and are accepted.
All material must be pasted or written in the body of the e-mail. Please Do NOT
include any attachments in your e-mail. Applications with attachments will be
automatically disqualified. Deadline for submissions is April 27 2011. Only
those accepted to the workshop will be notified by June 15 2011. Accommodation
in Lagos will be provided for all accepted applicants who are able to attend for
the ten-day duration of the workshop. A literary evening of readings, open to
the public, will be held at the end of the workshop on July 2, 2011.
To apply, send an e-mail to [email protected]
Your e-mail subject should read ?Workshop Application.?
The body of the e-mail should contain the following:
1. Your Name
2. Your address
3. A few sentences about yourself
4. A writing sample of between 200 and 800 words. The sample must be either
fiction or non-fiction.
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Literature
Want to participate in Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop?
Binyavanga and Chimamanda with participants at the 2010 editionFarafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized
by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda
Adichie, from June 23 to July 2 2011. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian
Breweries Plc. Guest writers, including the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer
Binyavanga Wainaina, will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie.
The workshop will take the form of a class. Participants will be assigned a wide
range of reading exercises, as well as daily writing exercises. The aim of the
workshop is to improve the craft of Nigerian writers and to encourage published
and unpublished writers by bringing different perspectives to the art of
storytelling. Participation is limited only to those who apply and are accepted.
All material must be pasted or written in the body of the e-mail. Please Do NOT
include any attachments in your e-mail. Applications with attachments will be
automatically disqualified. Deadline for submissions is April 27 2011. Only
those accepted to the workshop will be notified by June 15 2011. Accommodation
in Lagos will be provided for all accepted applicants who are able to attend for
the ten-day duration of the workshop. A literary evening of readings, open to
the public, will be held at the end of the workshop on July 2, 2011.
To apply, send an e-mail to [email protected]
Your e-mail subject should read ?Workshop Application.?
The body of the e-mail should contain the following:
1. Your Name
2. Your address
3. A few sentences about yourself
4. A writing sample of between 200 and 800 words. The sample must be either
fiction or non-fiction.
- Nal, Nlng In Quest For Literary Excellence
L ? R: Prof. Ayo Bamgbose, Miss Siene Allwell-Brown, Prof. Ben Elugbe, Mrs. Mabel Segun, Prof. Ayo Banjo and Malam Denja Abdullahi at the opening ceremony Why does a book considered by the author as a masterpiece at times fail to make it in literary...
- Poetry: Sentinel Nigeria Spreads The Gospel
The 3rd of July, 2010 was a special day for the members of the Kaduna State chapter of Association of Nigerian Authors and writers resident in Kaduna, as Unoma Azuah, Professor of Creative Writing at Lane College, USA, lectured them on some vital techniques...
- Those Who Don?t Read Fiction Don?t Write Well
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA, a Kenyan writer and winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, who is currently a Bard Fellow and Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Literature and Languages at Bard College, was one of the resource persons...
- Farafina: Nurturing Emerging Writers (report)
Even though the age-long maxim that writers are born and not made still holds true, today?s writer who wishes to distinguish himself from the crowd can no longer afford to rely entirely on his creative instinct, given the increasing competitive nature...
- Farafina's Window To The Publishing World
THE writer is often regarded as a lone figure in the process that makes him an author. Hence, in celebrating the author, the publisher is hardly featured in the success story. But the fact is, while the author is the source and central element in the...