Thanx everybody!!THANKS THANKS n THANKS.i think im ova d heartbrk n subsequent works shuld show it.thanks again n again.

C'mon ppl,am I the only one who has read "three"?Its abt multiple personality disorders n a masterpiece in CONFUSION!

Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop Sponsored by Nigerian Breweries

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 September 17 to September 26 2009. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc. Guest writers who will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie are the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina author of DISCOVERING HOME, the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award Winning writer Nathan Englander author of FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES. Guardian Fiction prize winning author of TRUMPET Jackie Kay, Booker-nominated English author of NOTES ON A SCANDAL Zoe Heller and others.

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 The aim of the workshop is to improve the craft of Nigerian writers and to encourage published and unpublished writers by bringing different perspectives to the art of storytelling.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.

To apply, send an e-mail to Udonandu2009@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. The sample must be either fiction or non-fiction.
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 July 30 2009. Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by August 30 2009. 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

Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop Sponsored by Nigerian Breweries

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 September 17 to September 26 2009. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc. Guest writers who will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie are the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina author of DISCOVERING HOME, the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award Winning writer Nathan Englander author of FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES. Guardian Fiction prize winning author of TRUMPET Jackie Kay, Booker-nominated English author of NOTES ON A SCANDAL Zoe Heller and others.

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.

To apply, send an e-mail to Udonandu2009@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. The sample must be either fiction or non-fiction.
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 July 30 2009. Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by August 30 2009. 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

I especially loved 3 blind mice.U 4got to mention an eccentric old lady with an excellent mind.

Cold Cold Heart
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they cant tempt us
With their lies
I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows
Knee-high
So wont you try to come
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Oga kaydkay, !I don't know where to start thanking u from!Imagine I went to buy some novels and the prices were like those for nuclear bombs!Thank God for you if not I for use my schoolfees buy storybook, lolrotf, U are doing a fantastic job.Pls dont stop.Abeg send me ur no make i buy u small recharge card, lol.

Kaydkay u are beta than superman!Where did u get all this stuff 4rm self?Mucho salutaziones for Koontz and Puzio.Abeg make u no vex say na soso demand we dey demand, but no 4get the Robert Ludlum and Frederick Forsyth,

Thumbs to you kaydkay.I've following from the beginning but I not an erotic fan so I left.Thanks for the stephen king.Please have you got any C.S Lewis.He wrote the chronicles of narnia,but I need some non fiction he wrote later in life.also if you have any Ted Dekker especially his trilogy red,green,blue.Keep up the good work.You are the bomb!

And I think say na me read pass!!Now this is intimidating!Fancy reading only a few books from the 2000s,but i try for the oldies sha.
Now gud and patriotic nairalanders,where can i get these books ooo, If uve got any soft copies pls let me know and would really be glad.This is really a lifetime homework cos ive got to read em all(i hope to livelong)!

Too abrupt.U can make it more graphic and lucid.Its too short,enrich it!Nyce work though.

The Voice of Pain.
As each second passes
I feel stabs from a million shattered glasses
I feel like my days are numbered
And every sound of my heart-beat is thundered
I feel like a bird just learning to fly
"The next minute", I feel like an old man ready to die
My gauge reads: "Empty"
But my assignments are still plenty
Choked with the stress of suppressing my fears,
I sometimes feel like succumbing to tears
Though gagged by the strength of my pride
I'm still haunted by these weaknesses I hide
Listen as my soul screams
For my heart and mind have become rival teams

Kish Me Quick
by Cade
Baby, first time I sight you, I know say you too fine
For inside me, I come begin to fell one kin
I ask myself, which kin girl be this wey I see
I come dey imagine, what if she Kish me.

Your pretty face dey begin my day
Your smile alone better pass any pay
True, true, love wan finish me
Abegi O fine girl, come kish me.

You are the only sugar in my tea
The only mosquito that can ever bite me
The only ripe orange my eyes fit see
Come touch me baby, come kish me.

Even if I vex for efery other person in this world
I no fit vex for this fine girl.
My love for you deep pass any kin sea
Come kish me please fine sisi.

I dream about you from morning till night
I dream about you even under sunlight.
Because of you I no fit chop for one week
So Chibaby better come Kish me quick.

A broken heart's chant.
I was hibernated for a few
You convinced me to come out and play
You promised it'll be good outside
You promised to hold my hand
I came and held on to your words
You left me flat in the cold
How was I to know
That you'd do the things you did
Oh had I known
Had I known
I would have stayed curled up in my shell, my safe haven where love was true
I tried and I'm tired
May be in another lifetime
I'll try again
But one thing is for sure
It won't be with you

This is a breathtaking masterpiece.Thanks @H202 for bringing it here.

Ake:The years of childhood.By Soyinka