|
|
MORNING
|
LUNCH HOUR
|
EVENING
|
|
MONDAY 15TH
|
Fiction discourse: A flight diversion by ChimamandaAdichie
|
Writing Techniques: Characters- Bringing them to life
|
Budding issues
HOAYS Movie ban; the ups and downs of Nigerian Movie Industry Our
narratives and how to tell them candidly
|
|
TUESDAY 16TH
|
Poetry discourse: Shakespeare’s
|
Caine Prize 2014: shortlisted writers stories. Efemia Chela’s
‘Chicken’
|
Are you a writer or a storyteller and what’s the difference?
The problem with Nigerian Literature.
|
|
WEDNESDAY 17TH
|
Fiction
Linda McVeigh’s ‘All over the place’. The role of humor in
storytelling
|
Diana Awerbuck
|
2015 World Cup. Why Nigeria cannot go past group stage? Predictions
of who would win
|
|
THURSDAY 18TH
|
Fiction discourse:
NoViolet Bulawayo’s ‘Hitting Budapest’
|
Huchu
|
Jumping Monkey Hill, Farafina workshop and the autonomy of
ChimamandaAdichie
|
|
FRIDAY 19TH
|
TED Talks
Gift of Blindness by Cohbams
|
OkwiriOduor
|
Why Nigeria’s economy is not progressing
|
|
SATURDAY 20TH
|
Photography
|
Abstract Writing; giving life to lifeless concepts in a story
|
Are youth the solution to Nigeria’s problem?
|
|
SUNDAY 21ST
|
Fiction discourse:
KelechiNjoku’s ‘Survived by’
|
The morality, amorality or immorality of our narratives- Junot Diaz’s
Miss Lora
|
Patience Jonathan, our indigenous language and the proclivity for the
white man’s English
|
|
MONDAY 22ND
|
Poetry discourse:
|
The role of conflict in a story
|
How I can fight Boko Haram without Goodluck Jonathan
|
|
TUESDAY 23RD
|
Non-fiction discourse: ChimamandaAdichie’s ‘Colour of an Akward
Conversation’
|
Writing in the second person; How and When?
|
The morality of suicide
|
|
WEDNESDAY 24TH
|
TED Talks:
ChimamandaAdichie’s ‘We should all be feminists’
|
Originality in writing; honing your voice
|
Femi Fani-Kayode, DoyinOkupe, Reuben Abati and the tweeting Nigerians
|
|
THURSDAY 25TH
|
Photography
|
What readers want in a story? QnA session
|
To BIAFRA or not to BIAFRA; the questions of a true Nigerian
|
Sunday, 15 June 2014
#CWNLITFEST Time Table
#CWNLITFEST: An Introduction
11-day Online Program
Facebook and twitter sync
Literature, Writing, arts and trending issues.
Morning discussion- Breakfast
Poetry, fiction and non-fiction; share articles on the blog
Shared links to Per Contra, Naijastories, New Yorker, Nukan
Niche, Guernica, NakedConvos, Harpers’ Magazine, Alice Munroe, Teju Cole,
Emmanuel Iduma, ChimamandaAdichie,
Poetry: Shakespeare, Classical, KIS, Robert Frost( bring
issues out of)
TED talks etc.
1.
Discussions on fictional works, non-fiction and
poetry; critiquing, explaining, pointing out figures of speech, style
2.
Discussion on writing techniques and aspects:
practical to-do work.
3.
Discussion on photography
4.
Discussion on budding issues
5.
TED Talks
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)