Pan African Literary Forum

July 3-18, 2008

 GHANA     
Jeffery Renard Allen, Director
Arthur Flowers, Co-Director
Sean Hill, Administrative Manager

 Week-long Workshops in Accra

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, Walter Cummins, Meri Nana-Ama  Danquah, David Daniel, Arthur Flowers, Nina Foxx, Mary Gaitskill, James Gibbons, Manu Herbstein, Myronn Hardy, Duriel Harris, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Major Jackson, Tyheimba Jess, Josip Novakovich, Bayo Ojikutu, Ed Pavlic, Caryl Phillips, Robert Polito, Francine Prose, Nellie Rosario, Lore Segal, Matthew Sharp, Terese Svoboda, Peter Tachtenberg, 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:

admin@panafricanliteraryforum.com
JeffAllen@panafricanliteraryforum.com
Aflowers@panafricanliteraryforum.com
Seanhill@panafricanliteraryforum.com

Phone:  (917) 834-1852

www.panafricanliteraryforum.com

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