Saturday 16 January 2016
Friday 15 January 2016
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Thursday 1 October 2015
2016 Writivism Creative Writing Workshops Call for Applications
- January 8 – 10, 2016: Goma (Fiction – held in French)
- January 15 – 17, 2016: Dakar (Non Fiction – held in French)
- January 22 – 24, 2016: Abidjan (Fiction – held in French)
- March 6 – 8, 2016: Accra (Non Fiction – held in English)
- April 15 – 17, 2016: Kampala (Poetry – held in English)
Another innovation is that whereas our workshops have in the past been limited to writers based on the continent, the Accra workshop shall be open to emerging writers based in the Caribbean.
Facilitators for the various workshops shall be announced in due time (in October, 2015) and processes for applying for limited travel funding to attend some of the workshops for needy applicants shall be announced after successful applicants have been selected (in November, 2015). Successful applicants will be announced at the Ake Arts and Books Festival (16 – 20 November, 2015), in Abeokuta Nigeria.
Applications process closes on October 30, 2015.
The workshops will include daily two-hour master classes on creative writing, group sessions of critiquing of draft stories, one on one sessions with facilitators and private time for participants to re-write their stories. A separate process to select talented and committed writers to be assigned mentors shall follow the workshop. Those taken on for mentoring shall work on two separate pieces in their art form (fiction, nonfiction and poetry) to be published by online publication partners. Fiction mentees shall also write a short story for submission to the Writivism Short Story Prize.
The 2016 workshops aim at identifying emerging writers in Anglophone and Francophone Africa as well as the Caribbean.
Application Guidelines
- Applicants must be resident on the African continent or in the Caribbean;
- Applicants must not have published a book before;
- All applications must be made online; here for the Fiction (in French in Goma and Abidjan) and Non Fiction (in French for Dakar); here for the Non Fiction (in English in Accra, includes writers based in the Caribbean) and here for the Poetry (to be held only in Kampala);
- Deadline for submission is 30 October 2015 midnight, East African time;
- The list of successful applicants shall be announced at the Ake Books and Arts Festival 2015;
- The workshops are residential and participants are responsible for the transport to and from the venue, meals and accommodation during the workshop at a specific rate;
- There will be special travel funding opportunities for the Goma, Dakar and Accra workshops, but this should not be a condition for applying as the application process for these will open after successful applicants have been announced and will have their own eligibility criteria;
- Participants in past Writivism workshops can apply if they have since not published a book.
Checking the official Writivism website for more information.
Photo credit: James Murua's Literature Blog
Tuesday 11 August 2015
Sunday 9 August 2015
Become a Unilever Campus Ambassador
For students who desire to become Unilever Campus Ambassadors, the application form is now available. It isn't clear when the form is closing so endeavour to fill it without much hesitation.
At +Unilever we work to create a better future every day. We are a company founded on great people, a great place to work, great brands and constant innovation, and an ambitious goal to make sustainable living commonplace.
One of the ways in which we engage students is through campus activities in #Nigerian Universities and we do this in collaboration with students who we select as Campus #Ambassadors.
The Campus Ambassador role provides great opportunities for wider levels of interaction and building a rewarding relationship with the company. It also creates invaluable networking and work platform for students that helps create a seamless transition between school life and the real world.
To be a part of this great opportunity, Please click on the link below to signup
Source: +Emmanuel Onaih, via pulse
Sunday 26 July 2015
How To Speed Up Internet Speed of Your Android Device | 1
Some android users may have been experiencing slow network connections dew to some certain facts.
Sometimes you will be surfing the internet and downloading a file of 1GB with a downloaded speed of 100kb/s and you know what it means"wasting of time".
With this simple trick you can increase your download speed up to 500kb/s.
First you need mobile uncle or mtk engineering (this app should be Common with people that use Glo bis on Android or change Imei for gb. It’s does more than changing Imei.)
Warning :this process trades your call quality for download speed.
For those that use mobile uncle and mtk engineering the process is the same.
1.Open the app and click on engineering mode.
2.Then slide down to see mobile data services preferred.
3. Click on mobile data service preferred u should see an option and a warning
4. Click OK
- See more at: http://www.cuteloaded.com/2015/07/increase-your-android-smartphone-donloaded-speed.html#sthash.xJXoYXJp.dpuf
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