Everyday in Naija: “Anything For Us?”
You arrive the airport dishevelled and in need of oxygen, because you’ve been running since you woke up; first to the bathroom, then around your house like a squirrel, trying to find your dress, your shoe, even your hair was nowhere to be found. Then, you ran to the car, in fact, it took you […]
7 Mistakes Great Screenwriters Do Not Make
I love Nollywood. I’ve loved Nollywood since the days of Igbo movies subtitled in English, all the way to the days of Glamour Girls and True Confession. The repeated pairing of Liz Benson & Sola Fosudo and Emeka Ike & Genevieve Nnaji could not quench this love, nor could soundtracks that told the entire story […]
Career of the Week – Uche Okonkwo, Managing Editor
Uche Okonkwo’s first degree is a B.A. in Education/English from the University of Port Harcourt. After NYSC, she did a bit of volunteering, and then returned to Kachifo Limited, where she had briefly interned earlier. In 2012 she went back to school to study for an MA in Creative Writing at University of Manchester. In 2014, […]
Skrife Launches to Provide Online Content for Entrepreneurs and Startups
Businesses with an online presence often find it difficult to populate their sites with content. And when they manage to, it’s not always engaging enough. Because writing attention-grabbing pieces isn’t an ability that too many people possess- entrepreneurs who need content may simply not be cut out to type articles that make sense to readers. […]
What’s Keeping You from Writing Your Book?
As an editor, writer and ghostwriter, I tend to attract people who dream of authoring books on a daily basis. When we get to discussing the reasons why their dream is not yet reality, there are certain explanations that keep recurring. If you’re someone who wants to write a book but has never gotten round […]
Career of the Week – Rita Onwurah, Screenwriter
Rita Onwurah studied Human Nutrition at the University of Ibadan and has been a screenwriter since 2009, writing and co-writing TV shows and movies like Kiss and Tell, Udeme Mii, Dining with a Long Spoon, Damage, Mrs. Somebody, and Love is in the Hair, to mention a few. CN: What were you doing prior to […]
20 Inspiring Quotes From Writers About Writing
Much has been said about the power and pleasure of reading, and not nearly enough about writing. Without writers there would be no books to read or rave about, but how much do we know about the writing process and what goes on in the minds of writers, be they novelists, journalists, or just people […]
Ofili Hosts Writing Bootcamp on The No Nonsense, No BS Guide to Publishing
Not many conferences or speakers offer straightforward practical methods that reveal secrets on how to get things done. However, in this program tagged the Writing Flipped bootcamp, award-winning Okechukwu Ofili will be hosting a one-day workshop on the no nonsense, no BS guide to publishing. Known for applying unconventional methods that have yielded proven results […]
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017
Entries are now open for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded primarily to writers from the British Commonwealth for short stories written in English or English translations of stories originally written in another language. New writers with few or no published works can enter the competition, as it is aimed at […]
82 Students to Engage in Writing Contest on Wole Soyinka’s 82nd Birthday
For two days in the month of July, Abeokuta’s June 12 cultural centre will be playing host to the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange. The annual event is scheduled to take place on the 13th and 14th of this month, coinciding with the 82nd birthday of its initiator, Professor Wole Soyinka. As part of the […]
7 Tips on Becoming a Creative Writer
Crafting a great story on paper from a good one in the head. That’s a summary of the creative writer’s task. But it’s not a straightforward task for writing enthusiasts who are testing out their fingers on keyboards. They might have some potential big hit of a story swirling in their minds, but how to […]
Quotes I Cannot Forget
A review of the #cnwriters conference.
Writing a Novel That Sells
Selling novels are a difficult business, regardless of where it is in the world that you’re in. The fast paced, clogged-up lifestyle of the age demands that we attend to numerous, pressing needs. Reading for the sake of obtaining vital information is a regular thing, but sitting down to consume literature for the fun of it […]
Top 4 Online Tools for Writers and Bloggers
With the increase in the rate of blog posts per day, there is a need for bloggers to be conscientious in planning and developing engaging content that meets the needs of their readers. Most bloggers would admit that it sometimes can be difficult to create original and interesting content. Fortunately, there are certain tools available […]
Connect Nigeria to Host Her 3rd Writers’ Conference: The Business of Writing III
Writing, in today’s world, is big business. This has greatly been influenced by the growth and expansion of the internet over the past decade, bringing writers on the international scene and most importantly, providing the online world with a surge of information that contributes massively to what it is today. Owing to this, the business […]
The Business of Writing in Today’s World
Whether spoken or written, words are symbols. They represent ideas; and as is the case with physical craft, it takes a special skill to find ways to string them together in order to communicate ideas, be they simple or complex. The fashioner who constructs spectacular pieces possesses a combination of natural creative genius and mastery […]