Writers' Studio Holds in Ibadan

Spark your creativity at Ibadan's innovative creative writing school WRITERS’ STUDIO. Creative writing courses offer people an opportunity for self-expression and help them to shape their thoughts and transform their experiences into powerful stories or pieces. Whatever you write Writer's studio is the place for you.

About Writers’ studio

Writers studio offers life-changing creative writing experiences to anyone who writes. Our classes are for both beginner writers who want to get the fundamental techniques of writing under their belt, and also for experienced writers who wish to sharpen their writing skills. At the writers' studio, we organise broadly based and specialised programs for anyone wishing to nurture their creativity, inspire their imagination and develop their writing skills. We provide you a supportive space where your creativity can flourish.

Our classes and seminar groups are facilitated by tutors who are published authors and passionate instructors. Our one-day intensive comes on Saturday, the 6th of April, 2013. To book, please call 08079774009 or 08033508505

Time: 9am

Venue: Supreme Management Consult 60/64, Francis Okediji Street, Off Awolowo Avenue, Old Bodija, Ibadan.

Courses and tutors for the one-day intensive class

Developing as a Creative Writer with Samuel Oluwatosin Kolawole

Samuel Kolawole has contributed short fiction to Eastownfiction,Translitmag, Superstition review, Sentinel literary Quarterly, Short Story Day Africa amongst other literary journals. Samuel featured as author of the month for his story “Memories and Penitence” at Tea with George, a project from Desperanto and Kanev Books in New York interested in showcasing the amazing talent of writers of poetry and short stories. He is a contributor to Jungle Jim, a groundbreaking African Pulp fiction Magazine based in South Africa. His story has been published in “Behind the shadows” an anthology of African and Asian writers and forthcoming in ISFN anthology, a Canadian-based imprint where his writing life will be also showcased. Samuel also contributes regularly to South Africa based efrika journal, and recently the Guardian, UK featured his work. His collection of stories The Book of M. was published in 2011. Samuel lives in Ibadan, where he has recently completed work on his first novel. He is the Director of Writer's Studio

Elements of Poetry with Tade Ipadeola

Tade Ipadeola is the author of two volumes of poetry – A Time of Signs (2000) and The Rain Fardel (2005). He has also published short stories and essays. In 2009, he won the Delphic Laurel in poetry with his poem ‘Songbird’ in Jeju, South Korea. He is currently working on his third volume of poetry provisionally titled The Sahara Testaments, a sequence of 1000 quatrains on the Sahara. Tade currently serves as the President of PEN Nigeria Centre and lives in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he writes and practises law.

Elements of Fiction with Yewande Omotoso (Guest writer)

Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria with her Barbadian mother, Nigerian father and two older brothers. The family moved to South Africa in 1992. Omotoso studied architecture at the University of Cape Town, worked as an architect for several years and went on to complete a Masters degree in Creative Writing.

Bom Boy is Omotoso’s debut novel, published in 2011 by Modjaji Books. It won the 2012 South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa as well as the M-Net Literary Awards 2012. She is currently working on her second novel. Yewande lives in Johannesburg. 

Factual writing with Temitayo Olofinlua

Temitayo  Olofinlua studied Literature at Obafemi Awolowo University and currently works as a freelance writer and editor. She is a multiple award winning essayist and recently won the "Peter Drucker Challenge" an international essay contest for young managers, entrepreneurs, and students, organized by the Peter Drucker Society Europe Her writing has been featured in various publications, online and in print. She loves teaching and lazing around with a good book and a cold drink.

Keep your creative fires burning, register now at Writer's studio

Venue

The seminar room at Supreme Management Consult, venue of Writer's studio provides an ideal environment for creative writing and learning. The unique features of this executive room includes:

-Comfortable leather seats with spacious built-in table for every participant

-Ultra Modern Lectern Unit with built in Loudspeakers - audible quality

-Top Class lighting and illumination effects

-2 (4 × 8 Ft) Magnetic Boards

-1 Flip Chart Board

-1 Notice Board

-Projector Screen

-2 Units 30 Horsepower A/C

-Fully Functional Wireless Internet Service

-A Working lavatory seperated for male and female for participants' convenience

To book a place Call 08079774009 or 08033508505

Favourite Five: Dami Ajayi

Dami Ajayi is one of the publishers of Saraba Mag. He was recently shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. You can read some of Dami's poems here. He tells us about his favourite five (plus one) poetry collections.

Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot
I have been told many times that I am heavily influenced by Eliot and my amiable answer is often, who isn’t? It is not arguable that Elliot is one of the poets who came out of 20th century with an irresistible scaffold of influence. I find The Love Songs of Alfred J. Prufrock to be a major masterpiece that I have attempted to parody but have failed colossally by personal standards.

West African Verse edited by Donatus Nwoga
Donatus Nwoga’s anthology of West African poets was in my school syllabus for junior readers and it is perhaps my first exposure to the possibilities of African poetry, if there is anything so called. I read this book into the depth of the nights as a youngster and it sunk in me a yearning to wield my pen in the fashion of great masters of African expressions like Wole Soyinka, Kwesi Brew, David Diop, Lenrie Peters and J. P. Clark.

Satellites by Lenrie Peters
The Gambian poet and surgeon’s first collection of poems showed me that poetry could measure humanity in the realms of medicine. It unveiled how the sinews of poetry could be firmed with medical parlance and how humanity could burst out of clinical scenarios with a haunting freshness. After all Eliot once called mature poets thieves, so Satellites found my inspiration for Clinical Blues.

Logarhythms by Niran Okewole
This is a rare gem, an exuberant first collection by psychiatrist and award-winning poet, Niran Okewole. This collection educated me on the possibilities of being contemporary, dialectical and relevant all in one spell. "Twenty-five Seasons" was a poem that saved me from the throes of depression in my last days in medical school; it showed me the universality of human experiences and how a poet’s duty is to look into varying situations with a discerning lens and fresh ink.

The Rain Fardel by Tade Ipadeola
Here is a poet with whom I’m well pleased. His poetry is a melting pot where rigorously exhausted muse meets mastery at its best. Ipadeola approaches poetry a Victorian slant that is surprisingly relevant and this is surprising in these days of free verse and prose poetry. The Rain Fardel is a compendium of poems and choreopoems that come alive in the mind of the reader like incantations that seamlessly blends culture, specialty and acute observation into crisp and eloquent verses.

Giovanni’s New Room edited by ‘Biyi Olusolape
Biyi Olusolape edited Saraba’s fourth chapbook of poetry which themed on love. An e-book comprising of poems by several poets of Nigerian descent engages a difficult theme but succeeds. Love is analysed in its numerous variety: self-love, awry love, consanguineous love and sensual love. And this is done with a tinge of contemporariness. It alludes unequivocally to James Baldwin’s Giovanni Room from where its title was borrowed.