Call for Submission NEW VOICES FROM WEST AFRICA -100 YOUNG VOICES FROM SIERRA LEONE AND NIGERIA

SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS

(SYNW – NIGERIA)

In Collaboration with

YOUNG WRITERS OF SIERRA LEONE

(YWSL – SIERRA LEONE)

Call for Submission

NEW VOICES FROM WEST AFRICA -100 YOUNG VOICES FROM SIERRA LEONE AND NIGERIA

To be dedicated to – Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Late Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Late Gladys Casely-Hayford, and the Late Abioseh Nicol

(AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS)

SIERRA LEONE /NIGERIA POETRY EXCHANGE

FOR YOUNG POETS RESIDING IN SIERRA LEONE AND NIGERIA

The idea behind this collaboration is to create a literary and creative exchange between the young poets of SIERRA LEONE and NIGERIA. The project is also geared towards publishing the unpublished poets residing in both countries.

Aims of the Project

• To network and link young poets from both countries together.
• To enhance, hone and sharpen their literary creativity
• To discover new literary talents.
• To produce an anthology (Both in Printed and E-Book Format).
• To share literary custom, tradition, ethics, history and culture through written poems.
• To promote the spirit of literary unity in Africa

Eligibility

• Language Medium – English
• Poetry Type – Any.
• Participants should be between the ages of 10 and 35.
• Poems should be between the minimum of 10 lines and maximum of 50lines.
• Entrants should include the followings alongside their works – Country, State, Age, Location, Short Profile, Where you heard about the Call for Entries, Tel. No. and A Sentence of not more than 50 words describing the poem.
• Permission to publish your work among the shortlisted entries.
• All entries must be submitted to: societyofyoungnigerianwriters@gmail.com and copy to youngwriterssl@yahoo.co.uk, jaysam34@yahoo.com latest by November 31^st, 2014.
• Any signs of plagiarism may disqualify the contestant.

Benefits

• Award of Certificate of Participation to all entrants
• Award of Certificate of Excellence to all the shortlisted entrants
• All shortlisted poems will be published (Printed and E-book format).
• Automatic Membership into the Society of Young Nigerian Writers and Young Writers of Sierra Leone
• For More information, please contact:

 Wole Adedoyin – SYNW – NIGERIA  (+2348072673852) or Samuel Turay  - YWSL –SIERRA LEONE - +23299259454 or +23279540071 or +23252255735

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WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING

WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING

(WAAIDSTOS)

 Writers Against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking is an association of authors from both literary and educational sectors who merged  to educate and inform people on the prevalent causes, effects and havocs of HIV/AIDS and Tobacco Smoking in Nigeria.  A literary and educational organization affiliated with Education Writers Association, (U.S.A) and Society of Young Nigerian Writers, (Nigeria). It was established to sensitize, inform, entertain, encourage and educate the public on what AIDS and Tobacco Smoking means, their havocs, effects, Causes, Spreads, Quitting, Misperceptions, symptoms, detection and monitoring, treatments, support mechanisms, preventions, Testing, Social perspectives, Social Stigma and Discrimination and information resources.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE MOVEMENT INCLUDE:

• To educate and inform the public on the need to abstain from unprotected sex and illicit smoking.
• To encourage and support the victims of the two scourges in making their plights known to the government and donor agencies across the globe.
• To re-orientate upcoming writers to write to give hope to the hopeless and not to write for winning prizes and accumulating money.
• Organizing workshops, symposia, conferences, seminars and fora for members of the Forum.
• Sourcing funds for financial supports for the affected victims.
• Publication of Weekly, Monthly and Annual Journals, Newsletters and magazines on the latest development and innovations on HIV/AIDS and Tobacco Smoking which will be in printed and online formats.
• Establishment of YOUNG WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING CLUBS in Schools, Churches, Mosques and different Business Units.
• To equip, nourish and nurture the minds of the younger ones on the necessity of abstaining totally from the two deadly scourges.
• To create a tink-tank platform where students and Anti-AIDS and Tobacco Smoking Writers can brainstorm and discuss the latest development on the two deadly stigmas.
• Support members in getting their works – articles and essays on AIDS and Tobacco Smoking published either in printed or online format for the benefits of the public.
• To create a computerized membership database of Writers Against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking.
• To broaden the vision of combating against the deadly AIDS and the dangerous Tobacco Smoking.
• To create a link where writers against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking can link and communicate with each other.
• To give award and reward health and social activists who had contributed greatly towards the reduction of the two deadly scourge in Nigeria.
• To work together with local and foreign agencies, associations, boards and organizations sharing the same vision with the Forum.

WOLE ADEDOYIN

COORDINATOR