Ghana 2008
A rather cool festival/forum being put together in Ghana for Summer of 2008
Pan African Literary ForuM: GHANA
July 3-18, 2008
Jeffery Renard Allen, Director
Arthur Flowers, Co-Director
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Program Director
Sean Hill, Administrative Manager
Week-long Workshops in Accra and a week-long Retreat and Master Classes in the Asante city of Kumasi
Faculty:
Colin Channer, Junot Diaz, Niq Mhlongo—Fiction
Kwame Dawes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley—Poetry
E. Ethelbert Miller, Binavanga Wainaina—Creative Nonfiction
Sheree Thomas—Speculative Fiction
Sapphire—Performance Poetry
Special Guests Include:
Chimamanda Adichie, Mohammed Nassehu Ali, Jeffery Renard Allen, Doreen Baingana, Calvin Baker, Sherwin Bitsui, Walt Cummins, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Hope Eghagha, Arthur Flowers, Ntoi Edjabe, Nina Foxx, Mary Gaitskill, James Gibbons, Manu Herbstein, Duriel Harris, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Major Jackson, Tyheimba Jess, Mat Johnson, Josip Novakovich, Bayo Ojikutu, Ed Pavlic, Caryl Phillips, Robert Polito, Francine Prose, Nelly Rosario, Lore Segal, Matthew Sharpe, Terese Svoboda, Peter Trachtenberg, Eisa Ulen, Quincy Troupe, and John Edgar Wideman
Craft Classes and Lectures
Panels, Programs, and Consultations with faculty, agents, editors, and publishers
Tours and Special Cultural Events
Award Competitions: Special Competition for emerging writers from Africa and the African Diaspora
Judges:
Junot Diaz—Fiction
Quincy Troupe—Poetry
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah—Creative Nonfiction
Winners will receive a Free Trip to the Conference and publication in The Literary Review and in a special insert of A Public Space
Open Competition for anyone who wishes to submit work
Judges:
John Edgar Wideman—Fiction
Terese Svoboda—Poetry
Josip Novakovich—Creative Nonfiction
Winners will receive a Free Trip to the Conference and publication in The Literary Review
Financial Aid, Scholarships and Fellowships Available
For more information, write us at:
Pan African Literary Forum
544, 511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10011-8436
Email us at:
admin@panafricanliteraryforum.com
JeffAllen@panafricanliteraryforum.com
Aflowers@panafricanliteraryforum.com
Seanhill@panafricanliteraryforum.com
Phone us at: (917) 834-1852
Contest guidelines and other information at:
http://www.panafricanliteraryforum.com