KATE TALES FOUNDATION IN CONJUNCTION
WITH
GOETHE INSTITUT
PRESENTS
AUTHORS TALK: WRITING, THROUGH THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN UNPUBLISHED WRITER
DATE: APRIL 18, 2015
TIME: 1PM- 7PM
VENUE: GOETHE INSTITUT (GERMAN CULTURAL CENTER)
City Hall, 30 Catholic Mission Street, Lagos Island, Lagos.
BOOK CHAT AND READINGS
GROUP DISCUSSIONS ON ABOVE THEME
SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES
HIGH-LIFE PERFORMANCE
PHOTOGRAPHY TALK
BOOK LAUNCH
PANELS
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut short story collection, The Whispering Trees (Parresia
Publishers, Lagos, 2012) went on to be long listed for the inaugural Etisalat
Prize for Literature in 2013, the same year the title story was shortlisted for
the Caine Prize for African Writing.
He won the BBC African Performance Playwriting Competition in 2007 and
the Amatu Braide Prize for Prose in 2008 and he is a 2013 Gabriel Garcia
Marquez Fellow. He was recently selected by the Hay Festival as one of the 39
most promising African Writers under the age of 40 for the Port Harcourt World
Book Capital 2014.
His short fictions have been published widely online and in anthologies
like A Memory This Size, the 2013
Caine Prize Anthology (New Internationalist, Oxford, 2013),Daughters of Eve and other New Stories from Nigeria (CCCP,
Nottingham, UK 2010) as well as the Gambit
Anthology of Newer African Writing and Africa39 Anthology published by
Bloomsbury.
Adebola Rayo is a full-time writer and editor
with years of experience in print and online media, and publishing. Her
works have been published in newspapers, magazines and an Anthology of short
stories
Basit Jamiu is an emerging writer. He loves to read and write. His stories have appeared in Naija stories, All Stories, Story write, 234stories Magazine. And one of his short stories will be published in Brittle Paper this month.
Celina Kile was born in Kaduna but presently schools at Makurdi. She is a writer, Poet and spoken word performer. Her stories have been published on online journals and magazines.
Dami Ajayi studied Medicine and Surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife where he co-founded Saraba Magazine for which he now serves as Fiction Editor.
His poem has
appeared on Maple Tree Literary Supplement, African writing, Sentinel Nigeria,
Ann Arbor Review, Sunday Revenue and elsewhere. His poetry pamphlet, Daybreak,
received rave reviews and became an underground success in 2013. He has been
praised as one of the key Nigerian poets of his generation. He was nominated as
one of the ‘Eight Nigerian Poets Whose Poems Delight’ in 2011.
His first
full length book of poems, Clinical Blues was shortlisted for the prestigious
2012 International Melita Hume Poetry Prize and long listed for the Erbacce
Poetry Prize in the same year.
Enne Aig is
a writer, engineer, lawyer and a poet. His stories and poems have been
published on art blogs and journals.
Gbolahan
Badmus is a writer and poet. He is a graduate of OAU. He contributed to 'Sandstorms
In June,' an anthology of poems and photography. His short stories and poems
have been published in brittle paper, Kalahari review, African writers,
guardian newspaper and elsewhere.
Kingsley
Iweka is a writer. He is twenty five years old and runs an online media
platform, Africa-OnTheRise.com that monitors analyses and shares only positive and
progressive news/content about Africa. He wrote his first manuscript when he
was nineteen, and his first book titled DAPPLED THINGS was published in
2013. He was part of the first ever Future Awards Young Writers Creative Classes
in 2010, in Lagos, which opened his eyes
to writing skills, and he realized that he could use his stories and writing to
impact lives and society by giving voice to issues that are peculiar and common
to people around him.
He founded and manages an online platform, Africa-OnTheRise, where he monitored and share ONLY positive and progressive news on Africa and Africans. He believes that if we are able to change the kind of conversations that Africans have, especially with young people, then we can inspire hope and positive actions towards building a better continent by the year 2020.
He founded and manages an online platform, Africa-OnTheRise, where he monitored and share ONLY positive and progressive news on Africa and Africans. He believes that if we are able to change the kind of conversations that Africans have, especially with young people, then we can inspire hope and positive actions towards building a better continent by the year 2020.
Mr. Joe
Dudun, an active participant in the evolution of Nollywood, is a creative
writer, filmmaker, applied creative writing advocate/teacher, conservationist
as well as journalist with current interest in online multimedia exploration – www.alawarimedia.com.ng
A director
of several top grade productions, his major screenplay efforts include Nneka:
The Pretty Serpent, Fatal Desire, Goodbye Tomorrow, Onome, Tears For Love,
Thorns of Rose, Oracle, Only Love, Intimate Strangers, Never Again, Ogodobiri,
AMAA 2007 Best Original Screenplay Nominee – Azima, Wale Adenuga
Productions’ Super Story – Omajuwa: The Destiny Child, One
Man’s Poison and ‘Thislife’ series – Only God Forgives, Omotola, My
Only Helper and Love of my life. Others include Ripples,
Candlelight, One Too Much (13 episodes), Living For Tomorrow (104
episodes), Our Time (26 episodes), Broken Songs (65 episodes), screen
adaptation of Ebi Akpeti’s The Perfect Church as well as Script
Editor in the screen adaptation of Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine.
His other
published titles include Uwale (Barracuda, 2010), a play on
the Niger River delta and The Ekpoma Plays (a collection of
two early plays, Barracuda; 2014) as well as Waiting for Sanity (Barracuda,
2014),
a collection of poems on the Nigerian question.
Kate Ekanem is a writer and a
Girl’s Right Activist. In 2008, she was awarded the youth integrity award as an
advocator. In 2012, her first travel story, ‘Journey from Kora-Le Berlin’ with
the ‘Derive Project’, Austria was published online, translated in French,
German and other languages. In 2013, her second story titled ‘Lagos to Ibadan’
was published on online journals. Kate is the initiator of Kate Tales
Foundation, an organization that promotes girls child education, women
empowerment and emerging writers’ development. They organize writing workshops
for emerging writers, street children, girl child, less privileged and
secondary schools. Also, art exhibition for artiste to share, exchange ideas,
network and discuss their works.
Her first novel would be out soon.
Miracle Adebayo is a graduate of Law who prefers the insides of a library to the insides of a court room. She is an avid reader and prolific writer and you can read most of her works on her blog www.mimiadebayo.wordpress.com. Her favorite pastime is writing stories in her head with her imagination in full gear. She loves reading conspiracy stories mostly because she finds them too amazing to write. Her major inspiration? God.
Musa Yunusa is a student of federal university of technology. He is a poet and a playwright.
He loves to read and make friends. A mentor of hilltop arts foundation Minna and an ex officio of ANA, Niger.
His works
has been published in national and international newspapers, websites and
magazine such as BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Jeune Afrique, Insidetrack Abuja,
Derive and The Platform and also shown in art exhibition in Nigeria, Ghana,
Uganda, Syria, Croatia, just to mention a few.
Nwankwo Obi Kinglsey is a young writer who started his writing career way back in 1997 when he wrote and also acted the mysterious child in a screen play. He has written few unpublished stories and he writes for the defunct hint magazine.
Oso Olajide is an emerging young Nigerian poet and a lover of soul music. Some of his poems have been
published on few news papers in the country.
Omoya Yinka Simult is an avid reader, thinker and budding writer. He is an undergraduate of University of Ibadan.
Saddiq Dzukogi is a poet, with three published volumes of poetry: Images of Life, Canvas, Sunbeams and Shadows. He was the winner of the Maiden edition of ANA/Mazariyya Teen Authorship prize for poetry. Canvas was first Runners up for ANA prize 2012 and also Sunbeams and Shadows shortlisted for the 2014 ANA poetry prize. His poems have appeared in Kalahari Review, Ebedi Review, ANA review, African Writer, Saraba Magazine, Sunday Literary Review, Blueprint and elsewhere.
Sophia Jerome is an undergraduate, a writer, blogger and a poet. She loves writing, going places, meeting new people and blogging.
Tolu Daniel is a short fiction writer. His works have appeared on Afridiaspora, Brittlepaper, Muwado, just to mention a few.
Toni
Kan holds both M.A and B.A degrees in English Literature from the universities
of Lagos and Jos respectively. He worked as a journalist for 5 years,
post-graduation and rose to the position of Editor at the age of 26 years,
before moving on to work in banking and telecoms.
Author
of 4 critically acclaimed works of fiction and poetry including Nights of the
Creaking Bed and When A Dream Lingers Too Long. Toni Kan was, until recently,
editor of the Sunday Sun Revue, a weekly 4 page literary supplement in Sunday
Sun.
Toni,
who is currently, Managing Partner at Radi8 Limited, an ideas company and
publisher of sabinews.com is a fellow of the Heinrich
Boll stiftung, Civitella Ranieri and
Yaddo.
He
is at work on two books: Infidelity and The Carnivorous City; a collection of
short stories and a novel about Lagos to be published by Cassava Republic
Press.
He
does not own a dog!
Ukamaka Olisakwe was raised in Kano
State, Nigeria. Her debut novel, Eyes of a Goddess , which
was published in 2012, was listed by This Is Africa as one of the best 100
books by African writers. Her essays and stories have been published in the New
York Times, Saraba Magazine, African Hadithi, Nigerian Telegraph,
Olisa.tv, Sentinel Nigeria and Short Story Day Africa. She has also been
featured in the BBC.
Ukamaka Olisakwe is also a
screenwriter. Her screenplay, a 104-episode TV series titled, The Calabash, has
been produced and is currently showing on DSTV'S Africa Magic Showcase.
Ukamaka Olisakwe was recently selected
in the Africa39 project – A Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club
initiative in celebration of the UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, as one of
the 39 most promising writers under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and
the Diaspora.
