WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITERS NICHE ALL ABOUT?

CREATIVE WRITERS’ NICHE- What I am

The Creative writers Niche is a fully-equipped team of writers who are committed to honing on residual writing talent, building skill and transforming the original concept of writing to more than just words.

The Creative Writer’s Niche is a home for writers who are committed to excelling in expression of literature; eager to do something beyond the ordinary that will appeal to the reader’s deepest emotions.

STRUCTURE

The team consists of an executive group made up of eight members; the President, the Vice President, the General Secretary, the P.R.O, the financial secretary, the treasurer, the Director of Programmes and the blog manager.

The next set of people in the structure is the committee of provosts. This is the only standing committee that is not under the general standing committees of the team. The committee of Provosts consists the Provosts of various colleges; college of Prose, college of Poetry, college of Playwright and college of  Creative non-fiction.

Every college has one provost.                                                                           

The committee of provosts is headed by the Vice President.

Each member of the team belongs to at least college and at most three colleges. However, this is subject to the availability of such persons to attend their college meetings. College meetings essentially are not fixed to hold at the same time.

Every college has a line of authority. The provost is empowered to appoint by himself, college officials; the editor and the line producer.

The job of the editor is to assist the college provost in editing all necessary submissions from college members before handing them over to the line producer. The line producer collates all submissions and takes them to the blog manager for production on the blog or the website or on any other forum.

However, the provost may appoint for himself a project manager when the need arises to work on any project either team, or college. The project manager’s position is however adhoc and will be dissolved as soon as such project is completed. However, the more projects one manages, the more it adds to his or her resume within the group. An official of a college cannot be a PM (project manager)

There are also general standing committees. They include; Recruitment committee, Creative Writers’ Forum committee, Welfare committee, Programmes/publicity committee.

There are also adhoc committees; Executive appointment committee, Ambassadorial delegation committee, Audit committee as well as other committees that may be.

GENERAL STANDING          

Recruitment Committee: This committee is burdened with the task of carrying out the recruitment of new members into the team. The committee has the onus of putting plans together and arranging programmes for the recruitment programme of intending team members. A committee has a chairman and a secretary. The secretary takes minutes of the meetings while the chairman presides over committee meetings. This committee is responsible to the vice President.

Creative Writer s’ Forum committee: The Creative Writers’ Forum is a newly set up project of the team. This forum is a conglomeration of writers who are brought together by the team in order to share ideas, inspire others and learn better skills in writing. Budding writers are invited to this forum, with a spotlight writer who has achieved much in any particular area of writing (except journalism) and will share his experiences. There would also be an anchor that will ensure it is as interactive as possible. The committee tasked with organising the forum is this committee. The committee does all the legwork and paperwork to ensure the forum holds once every month. This committee answers to the president.

The Welfare Committee: The welfare committee is committed to ensuring proper welfare of all team members within the context of team-related issues, The committee is in charge of providing welfare for the team during special programmes, other events and at meetings where necessary, also for special guests or speakers at attendance in any team-organised event. The committee’s duties is however limited to the confines of the team’s utility.  This committee also reports to the president.

Programmes committee: This committee is headed by the Director of programmes. The committee is responsible for planning all programmes of the committee, from team meetings to special programmes of the team

All general standing committee heads have meetings with the President on a monthly basis, at least once a month to ensure smooth running of their committees.

ADHOC

Executive appointment committee: This committee has the task of ensuring the smooth transference of power from one executive leadership to the other through the appointment of new members of the executive group. The committee is set up by the President, Vice President, general Secretary, Provosts and heads of general standing committees. These people, at a round table conference appoint a 5 or 7 man committee to decide on the next members of the executive group. Here, their decision, after proper consultation is final. They also ensure that the transfer process is successful to enable the new administration kick off. They stand dissolved as soon as the new administration is inaugurated.

Ambassadorial delegation committee: The team has an ambassadorial programme. This programme honors certain people with titles of CWN Ambassadors. The committee responsible for this is a three-man committee of experienced team members who have spent at least two writers’ seasons in the team. The committee will be selected solely by the President.

Audit Committee: This committee is responsible for the audit of accounts; looking into income and expenditure at the end of every fiscal year and submits reports to the team.

THE MOTTO

More than just words

TAGLINE                      

Harnessing greatness on paper

OUR MOTIVATION

The desire to build an international network of team members( writers) who have optimum  capacity, tapping into the potential they have simply by working with a team of like-minded people. To train writers who do not just see the words, but who go beyond literature into a world of imagination, deeper than emotions to evoke a response from the reader like never before. To groom inventive and creative writers who can transform literature to suit their forms, who can merge poetry and prose, drama and creative non-fiction and birth a piece so formidable, it would take away the reader’s breath. We don’t just want writers who will publish works all over the place, or writers who just write to keep up, but writers who can stun their audience, yet please them.

These writers, we intend to build to become, hence we accept based on talent and not skill, then we harness talent and put it on paper. With constant rubbing of minds of writer, trainings, seminars, interactive sessions, critiques of writs, these mind-blowing creative gurus are built. Our vision is to build writers with an edge who can compete anywhere, no matter how tough, who can be innovative and who have knowledge of what they do.

THE HOW:

·        Through the college system, we intend to build a formidable team of writers who have a network. We intend to establish a healthy network for every writer such that a writer is never alone but has people like him, who think alike, who he can work together with to achieve whatever he seeks to. We fully understand that one’s network determines his net worth. The college system which involves projects in the interim will enable writers to know what aspect a fellow writer specialises in or is exceptionally good at so as to know properly what constitutes your network.

·        Another important aspect of the team is to build knowledgeable writers who know a whole lot about the area of writing they do, hence the operational structure of the team is such that college meetings during the week are held continually where the writers get to learn more about what they do, yet the meetings hold only once to ensure the writer has personal time to build himself. The college also organises other projects and programmes through which more knowledge is imparted to the writer. There are also fortnightly general team meetings where every writer also gains more knowledge about what he does and as such builds his writing skills.

·        Our ‘blog alive/web alive’ project enables us to expose the writer to opportunities on a global scale as well as give the writer the opportunity for his work to be read by the world. Being advocates of technology, we intend to use every means whereby our message can easier and faster reach the world, and it is through the World Wide Web. We also make print publications like anthologies, newsletters and magazines.

·        Our method of recruitment which hardly considers skill but instead focuses on talent, potential, and the inkling of a promising writer enables writers who have potential but hardly ever write due to lack of skill or merely lack of discipline , to be accepted into the team and to have their writing talent harnessed through all our programmes. By the time we’re through, even the writer will not recognise who he used to be.

·        We also have a constant and up-to-date information on latest writing competitions ( local and international) in any of the four genres as well as information on paid writing opportunities, both locally and internationally. Trainings are set up by college heads or the team for such competitions in order to enable writers succeed. The information is also privileged- for writers only ( a CWN team member is called a writer)

·        The CWN library system is a state-of the-art system of readership; a system which is the first of its kind that aids readership in the team. It instigates a mini-competition within the team and within colleges for those who will finish the most books. Hence, we build writers who read (a rare sort to find today). So our writers don’t just write, they read, and they read much. Apart from reading, the writers learn to do proper summaries of books, poems or articles they read as well as how to carry out proper book reviews.

·        The general meetings also enable the writers from different colleges to rub minds and share experiences from different areas of writing so that the writer has at least basic knowledge of other genres outside his own.

·        Our system of college meetings is also such that the writer can belong to up to three colleges if he has enough time on his hands so as to develop himself in as many areas of writing as he can

·        Since our network is international, we enable the writer to gain international networks and to communicate with writers from other societies and gain insights on their experience. We also have an international travel programme that aids those interested in travel writing to enjoy trips to various other countries with CWN teams and do travel writing pieces.

·        Our seminars, trainings, certificate courses and special programmes also aid in building skills in the writer as well as giving the writer more knowledge of what he does, so he can do it at his best.

·        We also organise in-house writing competitions where writers compete and are awarded upon announcement of results.

·        Since we are not just a stuck-up team, we render social services to our society too i.e those who are not members of the team. For instance, our library book club project is open to non-team members as well as our certificate courses and some of our seminars and trainings, the creative writers’ forum, our ambassadorial programme and certain writing competitions too.

·        We also have a social life; hence the writer is not disadvantaged in any way. We have fun trips, sightseeing activities, nature mountaineering, as well as our end of season get-togethers.