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.
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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.
