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October 2009
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The 2010 Workshop will focus on fiction, playwriting and poetry and will be facilitated by Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr. Merle Hodge at a secluded writing-inducing setting location somewhere in Trinidad. Support for Caribbean Writing is an ongoing programme of The Cropper Foundation that seeks to contribute to the development of the Caribbean on many levels and in different areas of interest. The Foundation has been helped by the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA), and the Department of Liberal Arts, at The UWI. The writers’ workshop is part of the Foundation’s effort to encourage new Caribbean literary voices by providing practical advice on the craft of writing. The workshops this year will culminate with the Launch of the first Anthology of Cropper Foundation participants’ writings: “Moving Right Along...,” as well as a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of The Cropper Foundation. Applicants, twenty years and above, who are Caribbean nationals residing in the Caribbean, are invited to submit application forms and samples of their writing (five pages only) no later than November 15th 2009 to the following address: Writers Workshop, Department of Creative & Festival Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Works of prose fiction, playwriting or poetry, either published or unpublished, will be considered for this workshop. For application forms and further information, please call Dr. Dani Lyndersay (868) 663-0442, Ms. Rhoda Bharath (868) 779-7457, or Ms. Marissa Brooks 662-2002 ext. 3040 at The University of the West Indies, or email: MarissaUWI@gmail.com.
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The 6th Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop, sponsored by The Cropper Foundation in partnership with The UWI, will take place from July 5th to July 23rd 2010 in Trinidad and Tobago. Fifteen writers who haven’t as yet published a novel or collection of short stories, poems or plays will be chosen from across the Caribbean to join this year’s residential workshops.