Meet our Guest Speakers - 2021 Ibadan Creative Writing Workshop

 

2021 IBADAN CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

 MEET OUR GUEST SPEAKERS

 

BARTHOLOMEW AKPAH holds a PhD from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has taught English courses at the Department of Languages, English and Literary Studies at McPherson University, Ogun State, and Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, before moving to Liberia where he currently teaches at the Department of Language and Literature, William V.S. Tubman University.

 

JIDE OGUNLANA is a Novelist, Editor, Playwright and Professional Publisher, Two of Ogunlana’s plays, Verbal Violence and Clash of the Gods have been successfully staged in the Arts Theatre of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and they are being read at The Polytechnic, Ibadan and some higher institutions in the country. One of his short stories and extracts of his stories have also been published in some editions of ANA Review of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).

 

Ogunlana’s storybook, Primrose and the Kidnappers won the 2018 ANA Prize for Children’s Literature. Many of his books have been approved for school use in the current lists of books of Oyo State Ministry of Education.

 

Other publications by Jide Ogunlana include: Two Plays of Verbal Attack, Esin Amope (Yoruba) The Adventure of Three Wild Boys (published under a pseudonym, Wale Adewale), Primrose and the Kidnappers, Three Strange Stories for Children, Awesu in a Strange House, A Girl Called Corona Sofia and From Marriage to Prison (A Collection of Short Stories).

 

As an editor, he worked with Evans Brothers (Nig. Publishers) Ltd for some years before establishing his own publishing company where he now works as a writer, a rewriter and an editor.  His work with the Evans Brothers as a Senior Editor exposed him to various works of great writers both locally and internationally. As an independent editor, he has edited outstanding works of many popular Nigerian writers such as the prose works of Dr Wale Okediran, the Secretary General of Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) and a former Member of the House of Representatives, the biography of a former governor, the prose work of Diipo Fagunwa, the only surviving child of D.O. Fagunwa and the autobiography of Prof. Samuel Olusegun Ayodele, a renowned Nigerian professor of English.

 

MURTHADA O. LAWAL is a graduate of Fine Art from The Polytechnic Ibadan, Eruwa Campus and Yaba College of Technology where he obtained his HND in Painting (1992). Afterwards he got a Masters Degree at the University of Ibadan.

 

The artist has worked in different capacities as a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer for numerous magazine, newspaper, publishing companies and multinational organizations, which include IITA, Ibadan. He rose through managerial positions such as Production Manager at the Melrose Books. Also, Publishing and Operations Manager and later Acting Managing Director at UNILAG Press and Book Shop.

 

Presently he is back fulltime in the studio, working as a painter, illustrator, designer, 2D and 3D animator. His commissioned artworks adorn public and private spaces in Nigeria and abroad.

 

Awards won include: NOMA Award runner up, Kobe, Japan (1994), TIG 1st prize Award, Canada (2003), Macmillan literature Award, UK (2006) etc.

 

FOLARIN OLANIYI is a writer and media consultant with experience in the global book publishing industry spanning over 10 years. He has in the past years worked with several young writers to publish their works to high acclaim. Folarin presently directs the affairs of The School of Media and Innovation where he teaches printing, publishing and digital media.

 

SULAIMAN IDRIS BANKOLE hails from Osogbo in Osun State. He is a Scriptwriter, Playwright and an educator per excellence. He is also a scriptwriter as well as playwright. He believes in educating our youth’s right by having the common sense to tell them the truth about where our country and continent presently stands. Some of his works are: My Destiny, My Choice. Hidden Sparkle, When Tomorrow Comes and other academic books.

 

FOLARIN PHEBEAN holds a B.A English Language and Literature from the University of Ilorin. She is a young lady of essence and value with the mindset of reading and becoming great in life, a lover of God, and a cheerful giver.

During her undergraduate, she was a member of an Editorial group that does editing jobs as a freelancer. She is presently working as an English Editor in Extension Publications Company, starting her career as an Editor at her tender age. She has the vision of pursuing a Masters Degree in the nearest Future.

 

Registration is free, to register send your name, phone number, gender, email and your favorite genre to Odunyemi Ayobami – 08164148985 and copy Akinyemi Jelili- 07064338572.

Benefits of participation include: Free certificate of participation, free Creative Writing E-books and automatic membership into the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW).