Summer Literary Seminars-Kenya (SLS-Kenya) 2006

Nairobi and Lamu, Kenya
15-28 December 2006

Programme

The first week (15-21 December 2006) of the two-week long SLS-Kenya programme will be held in Nairobi’s Heron Court Hotel where accelerated writing workshops will be conducted by some of the most distinguished African, European and North American writers. The workshops will feature lectures and roundtable discussions on publishing and the state of East African, African, and North American writing. In addition, SLS readings will feature Anglophone African and North American poets and writers of different generations at a number of interesting venues across the city, including the University of Nairobi’s Taifa Hall, cultural centres and bookshops. SLS-Kenya will coordinate tours of the city, and participants will have an opportunity to venture outside the city centre to suburban artists’ colonies, among other activities.

The second half of the programme will take place on Lamu Island, where participants will have more opportunities to attend readings and participate in networking events involving faculty.

Contest

SLS held its first annual contest in 2006, held in affiliation with Tin House (USA) and Maisonneuve (Canada) magazines, two of the most interesting and prominent publications in North America.
The authors of the winning poem and prose entries received air fare, accommodation, and a full tuition waiver to the 2006 Summer Literary Seminars programme in Kenya, AND publication of the winning entry in one of these magazines--fiction and poetry in Tin House, non-fiction in Maisonneuve. Second place receives a full tuition waiver to SLS 2006, and third place receives a substantial tuition scholarship. Other hand-picked finalists will be offered tuition scholarships as well.

For More on the Lamu programme, click here who incidentally, has gladly volunteered to help Bookworms in the editing.

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