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Cropper Foundation and UWI host 8th Residential Creative Writers Workshop

For Release Upon Receipt - November 26, 2013

St. Augustine


         

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The Cropper Foundation’s 8th Residential Creative Writers’ Workshop, held in collaboration with the Department of Creative and Festival Arts at The University of the West Indies (The UWI), St. Augustine, is open for applications. The workshop takes place June 29 to July 13, 2014 in Trinidad and Tobago. Applications are open to published or unpublished prose fiction writers, as well as poets and playwrights from across the region and the Caribbean diaspora.  

Experienced and published authors, Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr Merle Hodge from The UWI will be the residential moderators for the two-week workshop.  Since 2000 they have mentored writers from Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Lucia, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Diaspora (Canada, USA, France), many of whom have gone on to publish their original creative writing and won a number of international Literary Awards.   

Interested writers are invited to submit five pages of a sample of their prose fiction, plays or their poetry no later than January 20th, 2014 to the following address:  

Writers Workshop

Department of Creative & Festival Arts

The University of the West Indies

St. Augustine.  

NB: All applicants (above the age of twenty) are responsible for their travel to and from Trinidad, and will be asked to contribute US$500 or TT$3000 each for the two-week workshop. 

For application forms and further information, please contact Dani Lyndersay or Sherry-Ann Carrington at the Department of the Creative and Festival Arts, UWI  

Phone: 1-868-662-2002 (ext. 83539 | 83539 | 83791)

Fax: 1-868-663 2222

Email: danielle.lyndersay@sta.uwi.edu or sherry-ann.carrington@sta.uwi.edu (Please include in the subject: Writers' Workshop)

Website: The Cropper Foundation: http://www.thecropperfoundation.org/ 

Please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dcfa/events.asp for more.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences. 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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