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tianshie (m)
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Attention all writers on Nairaland!
Chimamanda Adichie will be organizing a creative writing workshop in Lagos from August 19 to August 29 2008. The workshop is sponsored by Fidelity Bank.
Guest writers who will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie are the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (author of DISCOVERING HOME), the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominated Caribbean writer Marie-Elena John (author of UNBURNABLE) and the Pulitzer Prize nominated American writer Dave Eggers (author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OFSTAGGERING GENIUS).
Workshop participants will be expected to read and discuss a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, as well as complete short writing exercises. The aim of the workshop is to encourage published and unpublished Nigerian writers by bringing different perspectives to the art of storytelling.Participation is limited to those who apply and are accepted. A symposium open to the public will be held at the end of the workshop.
To apply, send an e-mail to Udonandu2008@gmail.com
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. (Please indicate whether your sample is fiction or nonfiction)
Acceptances will be based on the quality of the writing sample.All writing material must be pasted or written in the body of the e-mail. Do NOT send any attachments. Applications with attachments will be automatically disqualified. Deadline for submissions is July 12 2008. If accepted, you will be notified by August 5, 2008.
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timdogg
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hello. please i have a question but but before the question permit me to make a comment. i think we really need such forums where writers get to share ideas and get informed especially in this days that most of the youths rather spend time browsing junks, in that respect i must comment the initiative. now my question. i only write poems for the moment so can i also apply. please i need the reply as soon as possible. thank you. tiimdogg@gmail.com |
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kay9 (m)
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@poster: Thanks for the info.
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tianshie (m)
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@timdogg
I'm sorry I don't think poems are eligible.
@kay9
No problemo 
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gorociano (m)
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who told u "tianshe" u are the greatest rapper on nairaland?
I AM, wanna test me??
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chukky76 (m)
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Hi nairalanders. i was invited for this. any other nairalanders got invited to this? speak up so we can look out for each other there.
heres the mail i got.
Dear Chukwudi Eboka,
Thank you for applying to the creative writing workshop.
I very much enjoyed your writing sample; it is one of the twenty-five
I've selected from the more than five hundred entries I read.
The workshop, in Victoria Island, Lagos, will start on August 19 and
end on August 29. It will be informal and focused on reading, writing
and discussing the work produced by participants.
Please let me know, by responding to this e-mail, whether you will be
able to attend on each of the ten days, from 11 AM until 5 PM.
(Fidelity Bank might be able to offer accommodation to participants
who live outside Lagos.)
With my best wishes,
Chimamanda Adichie
this ought to be fun
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workingirl
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I applied, prob means I didn't get in  . Did you get your reply today? |
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tianshie (m)
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@Chukky
Got the same mail too. What's your email addy so we can meet up.Exchange numbers?
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SMC (f)
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@ Chukky and Tianshie,
Good for you guys.
Hope you enjoy the workshop. Chimamanda is a good writer and she does have good tips to pass on. Usually, she has the 2002 Caine Prize winner and editor of Kwani?, Binyavanga Wainaina cover the workshop with her (and some others). I am not sure that is the case this year, though I hope it is. So hopefully, you guys will have a good experience with the workshop. I hope to see your works published somewhere in the not too distant future. Goodluck.
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chukky76 (m)
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hi tianshie, wow i'm so glad another nairalander has been invited for this. my email is on my profile so u can send me a mail with your phone number and i'll send u mine.
thanks SMC for all the good thoughts and wishes. we'll do our best. please go make up with sisikill in the next thread. ok?
we all need to hook up one bright sunny day, all nairaland writers.
twill be fun.
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SMC (f)
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thanks SMC for all the good thoughts and wishes. we'll do our best. please go make up with sisikill in the next thread. ok?
we all need to hook up one bright sunny day, all nairaland writers.
twill be fun.
I have no grouse whatsoever with Sisikill. He/she is not known to me personally and I do hope my posts on that thread are not interpreted to be a personal attack on him/her or even Seun or anyone else, because no matter how displeasing those posts may be to anyone or how it may have ruffled their feathers, all I did was politely raise a pertinent question, and frankly I do not see that being a ground for offering an olive branch. If anyone feels slighted by my queries, he/she should learn to address the issues and stop ego tripping. |
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tianshie (m)
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@SMC
Merci beacoup.
@Chukky
All right I'll drop my phone number on YIM. Just call me
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tianshie (m)
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It's the second day of the workshop at the Lagos resource centre Victoria Island and it's very taxing with all the readings and assignments Chimamanda gives us but the experience is invaluable!!
Tomorrow is another day 
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SMC (f)
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It's the second day of the workshop at the Lagos resource centre Victoria Island and it's very taxing with all the readings and assignments Chimamanda gives us but the experience is invaluable!!
Tomorrow is another day LOL. Well, I'll advise that you soak up as much as you can. You know what they say - No pain, no gain. Remember that you can only be a better writer for the experience (not worse). I'm sure that you will appreciate the experience sometime in the not too distant future. Did you manage to hook up with Chukky76? Since Seun banned him, he has not posted on Nairaland (though I believe the ban has since been lifted - I may however be wrong, who knows?). Anyway, all the best to you guys. Ensure you make the most of the workshop. |
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tianshie (m)
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@SMC
Thanks for the lifting words. I have hooked up with Chukky and apparently homeboy's not been unbanned which is rather sad.
The experience so far has been wonderful, I recall I had to do some assignments by the light of my ipod at 4 a.m. this morning with mosquitoes batting against my limbs because I feel asleep (SOO tired!) when I got home yesterday and to make matters worse, NEPA did the usual.I wanted to make sure I did them, else I might look like a fool when Chimamanda starts to ask questions and she does like to rib me.
Tomorrow, Marie Elena is teaching and we have like 5 readings to do but thankfully no classwork
Did I mention the food is great 
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SMC (f)
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great LOL |
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Ndipe (m)
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Congratulations to all those who were selected by Ms. Adichie. More grease to your elbows.
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