The Flame Tree Writers’ Project in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Abuja Office is announcing a call for applications to a Writers’ Workshop for emerging writers from Northern Nigeria.
The initiative which is led by NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature winner, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, is designed to support emerging writers in the craft of creative writing as a critical tool to introspect the present and imagine future potentials that will help to advance a more democratic, peaceful, gender equitable and socially just Northern Nigeria.
The project includes an all-expense paid five-day workshop to be co-facilitated by another NLNG Nigeria Prize-winning author, Chika Unigwe, in Abuja from 24 to 28 June 2024 in Abuja and participants will receive expert guidance in writing a short story suitable for publication in an anthology of new writing during this period.
This first edition of the workshop is exclusively for writers from the 19 Northern States of Nigeria domiciled in the country, who must be between the ages of 18 and 35. Subsequent editions will include other geo-political zones of the country. Interested participants are expected to meet set eligibility criteria, while female emerging writers are strongly encouraged to send in their applications. Applicants must send their submissions to: flametreewritersproject@gmail.com on or before 1 June 2024.
Speaking on the initiative, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, said, “This has been a passion project of mine for so long and I am excited that with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, it is coming to fruition. It’s not just a workshop but a project because, in the end, we are going to publish the stories from the workshop in an anthology of new writing and get them into institutions of learning where they will be taught as part of the growing and exciting corpus of literature from this part of the country.”
According to Ere Amachree, Program Manager, Rethinking Politics at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (hbf), Abuja Office, the Foundation is excited about the Flame Tree Writers’ Project as it is passionate about promoting the writing culture of Heinrich Böll, whom the Foundation is named after, as a means of political expression and this project advances that vision.
Notes:
The Heinrich Böll Foundation (hbf), which is named after Heinrich Böll a foremost German writer, acts as a people-centric green think-tank and dialogue platform. The foundation is passionate about promoting the writing culture of Mr Heinrich Böll as a means of political expression and this project advances that vision. To find out more information about hbf, please visit our website: ng.boell.org.
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Signed: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
Founder,
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