Abuja Writers Forum (AWF) has launched
a new website for the Abuja Literary Festival which will hold from
June 28- 30, 2018.
The website will provide regular
updates about the festival as panelists and authors are confirmed in
the coming days. There will also be insightful articles and
interviews. It will also provide information during the festival.
The website can be accessed at
www.abujaliterrayfestival.org.
Meanwhile two Embassies have confirmed interest in the Festival by
offering to support some of the segments. The Ecuadorian Embassy will
partner in the International Art and Photo Exhibition with the
display of the Ecuador/Nigeria Photo-book being one of the proposed
highlights.
The American Embassy is providing
assistance for the digital media training for the five -day drama
workshop.
This development underscores the
growing partnership between the Ecuadorian Embassy and the Abuja
Writers Forum. In 2017, the Embassy sponsored a short story contest
for young Ecuadorian and Nigerian writers. A selection from the
winning entries was eventually published as a bilingual
(Spanish/English) collection of short stories,Pais Casabe (Casava
Lands).
The collection has been achieved some
feats as it is the first time Ecuadorian writers are being published
collectively in English and vice versa for their Nigerian
counterparts translated to Spanish. It has also been adopted as a
major resource by the African descendants in Ecuador.
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