Workshop.

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

@poster: Thanks for the info.

who told u "tianshe" u are the greatest rapper on nairaland?

I AM, wanna test me??

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

I applied, prob means I didn't get in . Did you get your reply today?

@ 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.

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 ur 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.

chukky76:

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.

tianshie:

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.

great LOL

Congratulations to all those who were selected by Ms. Adichie. More grease to your elbows.

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It's wonderful exposing forum members to such workshops. However , some of us missed out on that great occasion, when can we have such workshop again? Hope you will keep us abreast always. Thank you.