Calling Playwrights
Written by Kwani · September 11, 2008
The American Embassy’s Cultural attaché will be hosting Lynn Nottage ,a playwright from Brooklyn in Nairobi from 21st-26th September.Kwani Trust will be the venue of two of the workshops as indicated below:
September 22nd : Workshop I: ( 0930-1130) Generative writing workshop: Lynne leads a series of writing exercises designed to stimulate creativity and expand a writers’ arsenal of tools.
At the end of the session, she will give a writing assignment based on the exercises explored in the session. She will ask the writers during the intervening days to generate writing to present at the second workshop.
September 24th : Workshop II: (0930-1130 ) You all read and explore the take home exercises, as well as any short work that the participants might want to share with Lynne and the group for feedback. She will ask the participants to bring writing tools ( preferably a spiral notebook), a list of questions about the craft of writing that they might want to address in the workshop and creative positive energy!
Submissions can be made by enthusiasts, particularly un-published ones, and
should be no more than 2 pages long.Please send them to Angela (a.wachuka@kwani.org) by 15th September.
(Kwani is located In Westlands on the dirt road ( Mogotio Road) opposite the Holiday Inn. Savla Plaza, 2nd Floor.)
Do you need to have a submission to participate in the workshop? What are the charges if any? Can beginners attend?
Hi.My questions are similar to Mona’s.What if I don’t have any unpublished work but would like to attend anyway,may I?
Hi Mona and Chris,
Please send me an email to a.wachuka@kwani.org, or call me on 0728 606 954.
There are no charges to attend this workshop, and you should ideally have an interest in playwriting. Please send me a sample of your writing ( no longer than 2 pages) if you have it, and if not, be sure to drop me a note or call me all the same.
Best wishes,
Angela
Hi Kenyans,
I’m amazed at how our playwrites get motivated through competitions that aid in encouraging them to push on in their quest to polish their playwriting skills. what happened to our novelists? why, in the name of all saints, cant we initiate novelist competitions? Many Kenyans will die with their stories inside them. please take action Kwani?!