During the event ‘An Evening With Chimamanda‘, Chimamanda mentioned that her creative writing workshop will be relaunched later this year and we have the details for the application. The name of the creative writing workshop has been changed from The Farafina Trust Writing Workshop to The Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop. it will be sponsored by Trace Nigeria, and will run for 10 days, starting from the 20th of November, to the 30th.
It will give you an opportunity to learn about creative writing from Chimamanda and other insanely talented and brilliant writers. You will also get to meet other writers who are working towards building a career out of writing like yourself.
One fantastic thing about this Workshop is that feeding and accommodation will be provided for all accepted writers!
Facilitators for this workshop include great minds like Chika Unigwe- One of the judges for the Campus Writing Challenge, Faith Adiele, Aslak Myhre, Dave Eggers, Robert Spillman, and many more.
How To Apply for the Workshop:
- Send a prose fiction or creative non-fiction writing sample of 200 – 1000 words.
- In the body of your email, include your name, address and a brief bio.
- Your subject title must read ‘Workshop Application’
- Send your applications through e-mail to purplehibiscus2018@gmail.com
- Be sure to send in your application before the deadline, 15th October, 2018
- Successful applicants will be contacted by 1st November, 2018
How to get your story picked:
Click here to get this for FREE. It contains tips that will help your story get selected.
Thank you for the information. Is the submission going to be in PDF, or Document format, or is it okay to write straight in the Email?
Hello Rosemary,
You should include your study in a word document and attach it to the email.
Where and when will the winners be contacted?
Also, I attached mine in pdf, will this affect my chance of selection?
Today is the day to contact winners?
Hello,
OkadaBooks is not affiliated with the workshop. If you make the cut, you should be contacted by Chimamanda’s team.
This is so beautiful, it’s quite unfortunate that I am just getting to know about it today. Congrats to those that been selected. And I hope I will get an opportunity in the next edition
Good day,
When will applications for this year’s workshop be open? Will there be any for this year?
Thanks!
I need to know when entries for 2020 resumes
We’ll post it as soon as we hear something.