Georgetown: The Guyana Prize Committee and the University of Guyana will be hosting its second series of workshops aimed at helping aspiring local writers. The event will be held Monday at the National Library Annexe begging from 17:00hrs. The first session started in November, 2012
Participants will be tutored by Guyana Prize winners Ruel Johnson and Jan Lowe Shinebourne.
This two-session workshop on poetry and fiction will be conducted by Ruel Johnson, who won the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2002 (First Book of Fiction category) for his self-published collection Ariadne and Other Stories.
The first segment will focus of ‘The Physics of Poetry, The Mechanics of Poetry and Poetry in the Popular Culture.’
On Wednesday at 17:00 hrs, Johnson will continue his training session which will focus on Short Fiction and Analysis.
On February 18 and February 20 there will be another workshop and these sessions will be held by Jan Lowe Shinebourne (author of Timepiece, which won the Guyana Prize First Book of Fiction). The sessions will focus on ‘Turning experience into writing’, ‘Turning geographical background into fiction’ and ‘Editing of Creative Work.’ That is described as a master class.
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