Following receipt of funding from Barrister Yusuf Ali (SAN) for the fourth year running, the Association of Nigerian Authors is pleased to announce the first ever ANA/Yusuf Ali Creative Writing Workshop.
The ANA/Yusuf Ali Creative Writing Workshop will be hosted by the Association of Nigerian Authors in Lagos, Nigeria from the 2nd to 4th of October, 2015. A total of twenty students from tertiary institutions in Nigeria will be selected, from entries received, to participate in the workshop over the period of a single weekend.
The target of the workshop is to produce an Anthology of Creative Writing in honour of our benefactor, Yusuf Ali SAN.
CRITERIA
1. All
registered students of English and related Language courses, studying in
Nigeria, are eligible.
2. Other
Nigerian students with interests in creative writing are encouraged to apply.
3. Submissions
should be made via email ONLY.
4. Send entry to
<ana.review14@gmail.com>
in a SINGLE Microsoft Word file with the following details.
a) 100-word bio.
b) 600-word
writing sample.
c) Full contact
details including school affiliation, phone, email and a referee, preferably
the head of department.
ALL submissions
must be received by NOON of September 16, 2015.
Successful
candidates will be contacted on or before September 23, 2015.
EXPECTATIONS
1. The
Association shall subsidise transportation cost for all participants to Lagos.
2. The
Association will undertake the accommodation of all participants.
3. Tea and lunch
will be provided.
4. ALL
participants are to contribute a short story, not less than 3000 words, to the
anthology.
The workshop
will be facilitated by two well known Nigerian authors of great standing who
will teach the rudiments of creative writing, an emphasis on fiction, through
an intensive combination of talking, reading and class work. The facilitators
will also serve as mentors to the participants after the workshop contact
proper.
The Workshop is
meant to see a shift of emphasis from reading to writing and would further
cement the Association and our benefactor, Yusuf Ali SAN, in the public mind as
an all-round player in literary development amongst secondary school students
in Nigeria.
Remi Raji Tanko
Okoduwa
President, ANA Gen.
Secretary, ANA
CALL FOR ENTRIES: ANA/YUSUF ALI CREATIVE WRITING
WORKSHOP
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