Fiction Writing Workshop

Kwani Trust will run a fiction writing workshop from January 31 to February 20, 2007. The workshop will have three hour interactive sessions held twice a week in Nairobi.

To participate in this workshop please send a manuscript of between 2,500 and 5000 words to workshop@kwani.org or post to P.O. Box 2895, 00100 Nairobi for review.

The deadline for submission is January 7^th, 2008. Entries sent after this date will not be accepted. Selection for participation in the fiction workshop will be based on the strength of the manuscripts submitted and the individual’s availability to attend the workshop.

The selected participants will be contacted by January 14, 2008.

Pan African Literary Forum

July 3-18, 2008 GHANA

Jeffery Renard Allen, Director
Arthur Flowers, Co-Director
Sean Hill, Administrative Manager

Week-long Workshops in Accra

Week-long Retreat and Master Classes in the Asante city of Kumasi

Faculty:Colin Channer, Junot Diaz, Niq Mhlongo

Fiction: Kwame Dawes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Poetry E. Ethelbert Miller, Binavanga Wainaina

Creative Nonfiction: Sheree Thomas

Speculative Fiction: Sapphire Performance

Poetry

Special Guests Include: Chimamanda Adichie, Mohammed Nassehu Ali, Jeffery Renard Allen,

Walter Cummins, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, David Daniel, Arthur Flowers, Nina Foxx, Mary Gaitskill, James Gibbons, Manu Herbstein, Myronn Hardy,

Duriel Harris, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Major Jackson, Tyheimba Jess, Josip Novakovich, Bayo Ojikutu, Ed Pavlic, Caryl Phillips, Robert Polito,

Francine Prose, Nellie Rosario, Lore Segal, Matthew Sharp, Terese Svoboda, Peter Tachtenberg, Eisa Ulen, Quincy Troupe, and John Edgar Wideman

Craft Classes and Lectures Panels, Programs, and Consultations with faculty, agents, editors, and publishers

Tours and Special Cultural Events Award Competitions:

Special Competition for emerging writers from Africa and the African Diaspora Judges:

Junot DiazFiction Quincy TroupePoetry

Meri Nana-Ama DanquahCreative Nonfiction Winners will receive a Free Trip to the Conference and publication in The Literary

Review and in a special insert of A Public Space Open Competition for anyone who wishes to submit work

Judges: John Edgar WidemanFiction

Terese SvobodaPoetry Josip NovakovichCreative Nonfiction

Winners will receive a Free Trip to the Conference and publication in The Literary Review Financial Aid, Scholarships and Fellowships Available

For more information, write us at: Pan African Literary Forum

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