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Writing Workshop With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Learning To Write Like A Nobel Laureate At The Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop.

Nov 30, 2020by Back-Office Support2

A writing workshop is a great opportunity for budding writers to have their works subjected to peer review and critique. Readers and writers workshops come in various models, but the goals are to teach writers to be better writers Every year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie organizes the Purple Hibiscus Creative writing workshop. Various writers are selected...

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SBMEN’s 2020 Creative Writing Workshop For Women Is Supported By Ford Foundation / How To Apply

Nov 5, 2020by Chiziterem Chijioke0

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN) is proud to announce its Virtual Creative Writing Workshop for young female writers. The aim of the SBMEN Creative Writing Workshop For Women is to: enhance the skills and talent of female writers; explore the literary works of inspiring female writers and provide a platform for female writers...

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Juggling Three Balls: A Review of Mmirinzo by Achalugo

Aug 3, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi2

Book Title: Mmirinzo Author: Achalugo Chioma Ezekobe Length: 283 Genre: African Speculative Fiction Publisher/ Year: Winepress/ 2020 Source: Got a copy from a friend Reviewed by: Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí Mmirinzo by Achalugo begins simply. Olivia will be twenty-eight in a few months. She has bucket lists to tick before her twenty-eight birthday, and her younger...

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Nigerian Writer, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Has Won the 2020 K & L Prize

Aug 1, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi3

Today, 1 August, 2020, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola has won the 2020 K & L Prize. The prize has been awarded to Kanyinsola Olorunnisola for his afrofuturist story, “Abija: The Architect of Mayhem”. His short story was selected from a longlist of ten writers, which included writers from Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, and from a shortlist of...

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Alexander Emmanuel’s “Scarlet” Has Been Optioned for Film

Jul 24, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi2

An epic fantasy novel that weaves Grecian myths, Yoruba myths, and Kikuyu folklore, Scarlet has been optioned for adaptation into a feature-length film by Sobe Charles Umeh of 1st Rate Pictures. Sobe Charles Umeh is an award-winning Canada-based Nollywood director and producer. Scarlet is Alexander Emmanuel’s third novel. It was launched at the Benue Book...

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The 2020 Caine Prize Shortlist

May 19, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

The shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize 2020 has been announced today, the 19th of May, 2020. The shortlist of five includes three Nigerians, a Tanzanian, and a Rwandan; a Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlistee, an Etisalat Prize winner, a winner of the Betty Trask Prize, and a writer who has previously been shortlisted for...

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The Nigerian Poet, Michael Akuchie, Wins 2019 – 2020 Hellebore Poetry Scholarship Award

May 17, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

Author of the micro-chap “Calling Out Grief” (Ghost City Press, 2019) and a final year undergraduate student of English and Literature at the University of Benin – Michael Akuchie wins the Hellebore Poetry Scholarship Award for 2019 – 2020 for his poetry manuscript, Wreck. “Wreck features sharp language and images and a reaching towards God...

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