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Last Updated: Dec 29, 2011 - 2:18:31 AM |
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The Bahamas Writers Summer Institute is excited to announce this year’s featured Guest Writer, George Lamming. In addition to a public lecture at the College of the Bahamas’ Harry C. Moore Library on Thursday, July 14th, 7pm, Mr. Lamming will give a reading from current works on Saturday evening, July 16 th, at Chapter One Books, and will teach two master classes, one in fiction 10am-1pm on Saturday July 16th, and the other in poetry, 10am-1pm on Sunday, July 17th, also at the College of the Bahamas. The cost of the master classes is $30-$50 (sliding scale) per class. The lecture and reading are free, and all events are open to the public.
George Lamming of Barbados is a world renowned intellectual, writer, critic and educator. Lamming, chosen as the 2004 Distinguished Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, is currently Visiting Professor in the Africana Department at Brown University. He has held many prestigious academic positions including 1998-2000 scholar-in-residence at City College of the University of New York where he delivered the Langston Hughes Lecture at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. Other recipients of the distinguished Langston Hughes Festival Award include James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou.
Lamming exploded onto the literary scene in 1953 with his first novel In the Castle of My Skin which won the Somerset Maugham Award for literature, and was championed by leading writers and intellectuals such as Jean Paul Sartre and Richard Wright. In the Castle of My Skin, a novel about a Caribbean childhood and the realities of colonialism remains the most widely read of West Indian novels. Lamming, author of six novels, describes himself as a “political novelist” and has been closely involved in the political and cultural events of the Caribbean and Commonwealth over the last 50 years, remaining an astute critic
and commentator on political, historical and cultural events.
The Bahamas Writers Summer Institute is a Caribbean centered creative writing program located in the heart of Nassau at the College of the Bahamas Campus on Thompson Blvd. BWSI 2011 begins on July 4th, and is open to writers of all levels in poetry, fiction, memoir, screenwriting and playwriting.
Visit us at http://bwsi.wordpress.com/bwsi-2011-application/ for an application.
Email us at bahawsi@yahoo.com.
Writers Change the World.
BWSI Events with George Lamming:
Guest Lecture with George
Lamming Thursday, July 14 at 7-9pm at Harry C. Moore Library, College of
the Bahamas. “Memory, Desire and Community:
Interconnectedness in the Caribbean
Literary Imagination”
Fiction Master Class
Saturday, July 16 at 10am-1pm. College of the Bahamas
Writers in Community Series
Reading and Conversation with George Lamming
Saturday, July 16
7-9pm
Chapter One Books, COB,
Thompson Blvd.
Poetry Master Class
Sunday, July 17
10am-1pm
College of the Bahamas
Lamming Master Classes are $30-
$50, sliding scale.
For more information visit
www.bwsi.wordpress.com, write to
bahawsi@yahoo.com, or call 242- 326-3481
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