It's Here Again:Chimamanda Adichie & Nigerian Brewries Plc Presents 2013 Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop

 

Pictures from previous edition

Farafina Trust will be be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from August 6-16, 2013.


The Workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Brewries Plc. The Caine Prize winning  Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, and others 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 The aim of the workshop is to improve the craft of writers and to encourage published  and unpublished writers by bringing different perspective to the art of storytelling.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 submission is June 12, 2013. Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by July 22, 2013. 

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 August 16
2013.

To apply, send an e-mail to udonandu2013@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.

Interested? Then Let's make it happen people, you too can be a famous writer :-) send your e-mail now, and kindly share with your friends.
There may be another Achebe (of blessed memory) in the offing. Let the world hear your story..