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– seeks entries for 2012 awardsThe Guyana Prize Committee and the University of Guyana are continuing a series of workshops aimed at helping aspiring local writers to improve their craft.Pauline MelvilleParticipants will be tutored by Guyana Prize winners Ruel Johnson and Jan Lowe Shinebourne.The first session started in November,Kris Jenkins College Jersey, 2012 and was conducted by Pauline Melville. The London-based Melville has won numerous literary awards,Kris Jenkins Villanova Jersey, including the Commonwealth Writer’s Award,Johnny Bench Reds Jersey, Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guyana Prize for Literature.The second session will be held at 17:00 hrs today at the National Library Annexe. This two-session workshop on poetry and fiction will be conducted by Ruel Johnson,Omar Infante Tigers Jersey, who won the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2002 (First Book of Fiction category) for his self-published collection Ariadne and Other Stories.Today’s first segment will focus of ‘The Physics of Poetry, The Mechanics of Poetry and Poetry in the Popular Culture.’ The second, also being held today,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, will deal with ‘The mechanics of short fiction.’On Wednesday at 17:00 hrs,Jerseys NFL Wholesale China Online, Mr. Johnson will continue his training session which will focus on Short Fiction and Analysis.On February 18 and February 20 there will be another workshop and these sessions will be held by Jan Lowe Shinebourne (author of Timepiece,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, which won the Guyana Prize First Book of Fiction). The sessions will focus on ‘Turning experience into writing’, ‘Turning geographical background into fiction’ and ‘Editing of Creative Work.’ That is described as a master class.Another workshop on drama and editing will follow on a date still to be scheduled.Ruel JohnsonMeanwhile, the Guyana Prize Committee is urging writers to submit entries for the Guyana Prize 2012 awards. The deadline for submissions is February 28.Jan Lowe Shinebourne |
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