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The Organization of Women Writers of Africa (OWWA) and New York  University (NYU), in collaboration with Ghana-based Mbaasem Foundation and the Spanish Fundación Mujeres por África (Women for Africa Foundation), will present Yari Yari Ntoaso:  Continuing the Dialogue – An International Conference on Literature by Women of  African Ancestry. This major conference will put writers, critics and readers from across  Africa, the USA , Europe, and the Caribbean in dialogue with each other in Accra , Ghana , from May 16-19, 2013. More than a dozen emerging and established Ghanaian writers and scholars, including Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Ruby Goka, Mamle Kabu, Esi Sutherland-Addy and Margaret Busby will speak about their work on topics ranging from identity, to the craft of writing, to literary activism. These authors will be joined by other international writers such as:  Angela Davis ( USA ), Tess Onwueme ( Nigeria ), Natalia Molebatsi ( South Africa ),...

The Writers Project of Ghana is organising a day and half poetry workshop at the Reading Room of the Legon Hall at University of Ghana, Legon on 26th and 27th June 2010. There would be a poetry marathon on the first day and then on the second day written poems would be workshopped.  The time is 8:30 am to 5:00 pm on the 26th June, and 12' noon to 5:00 pm on the 27th June. If you are within the neighbourhood of Accra, kindly make it a point to attend. Come and let's push the literary front of Ghana. To confirm your participation please send an email to m.egblewogbe(at)gmail(dot)com.

The Writers Project of Ghana is organising a series of workshops to promote writing in Ghana. Last week's section focused on Poetry and participants learnt different methods of writing poetry and the use of metaphor. It really was interesting and refreshing to discard what we have come to call the 'Calabash Problem'.  Coming from the back of this success, the workshop continues this week with the focus now on fiction. Our resource person is the American writer  Laban Carrick Hill , co-founder of the Writers Project of Ghana. The venue is the Legon Hall reading room of the University of Ghana Legon. The workshop would be a day and a half beginning from 9am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 4 pm on 29th May 2010 and from 1 pm to 4 pm on 30th May 2010. Come and learn different methods of writing and expand your scope.