Sola Osofisan
08-17-2009, 06:24 PM
ANA Lagos Mounts a Workshop on the Special Art of Short Story Writing
The Centre of Excellence Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos is squaring up to meeting a major need on "The Special Art of Short Story writing". The guest writer and special resource person for the workshop is the Guyana-Caribean Nigerian wife, Prof. Karen King Aribisala, a creative prose writer of international craft.
Karen's The Hangman's Game won the Commonwealth 2008 prize as the First Best Book in prose fiction in the African category. Her first book, Our Wife and other stories is a most experimental collection of short stories with each story not exceeding two-three pages yet lucid and loaded in symbolism. In it, she does not only serve the taste of "Bitter Leaf" associated with cross-cultural marriages, she also shows the pleasures and pamperings therein.
Our Wife was followed up with a novel, Kicking Tongues that won an ANA Prize as a fore-runner to The Hangman's Game, the Commonwealth prize.
A Professor of African and Caribean literature and feminism with a fine creative bent, Karen will be workshoping writers into her findings on the special art of Short story Writing.
Date: Saturday August 29, 2009
Time: 2pm on the dot to 5pm
Venue: Aina Onabolu Complex, National Theatre, Costain-Iganmu, Lagos.
Prof. Karen King Aribisala will also be reading from her books and doing the the infrequent, do an oral performance of her stories like the African griot.
Writers are expected to come read their short stories only. No poetry reading will be allowed. It is short story day.
Chike Ofili
Chairman, ANA Lagos.
The Centre of Excellence Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos is squaring up to meeting a major need on "The Special Art of Short Story writing". The guest writer and special resource person for the workshop is the Guyana-Caribean Nigerian wife, Prof. Karen King Aribisala, a creative prose writer of international craft.
Karen's The Hangman's Game won the Commonwealth 2008 prize as the First Best Book in prose fiction in the African category. Her first book, Our Wife and other stories is a most experimental collection of short stories with each story not exceeding two-three pages yet lucid and loaded in symbolism. In it, she does not only serve the taste of "Bitter Leaf" associated with cross-cultural marriages, she also shows the pleasures and pamperings therein.
Our Wife was followed up with a novel, Kicking Tongues that won an ANA Prize as a fore-runner to The Hangman's Game, the Commonwealth prize.
A Professor of African and Caribean literature and feminism with a fine creative bent, Karen will be workshoping writers into her findings on the special art of Short story Writing.
Date: Saturday August 29, 2009
Time: 2pm on the dot to 5pm
Venue: Aina Onabolu Complex, National Theatre, Costain-Iganmu, Lagos.
Prof. Karen King Aribisala will also be reading from her books and doing the the infrequent, do an oral performance of her stories like the African griot.
Writers are expected to come read their short stories only. No poetry reading will be allowed. It is short story day.
Chike Ofili
Chairman, ANA Lagos.