Faber Academy with Petina Gappah and Christopher Hope: "Writing Other Lives"
Below is a Faber Academy announcement of a four-day course to be facilitated by Petina Gappah and Christopher Hope in Geneva. It looks like a course that would inspire participants to whip out that award-winning novel or collection of short stories they have been sitting on for years. The focus on our writing selves and the things we write about, the places, the contexts, most often as hyphenated beings in an increasingly hyphenated worldview, are some of the attractive features of the workshop. And who wouldn't want to attend a writing workshop facilitated by Petina Gappah and Christopher Hope, some of Africa's (by which I also mean the world's) important writers. Here are the details: Writing Other Lives with Petina Gappah and Christopher Hope : Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 March 2010, 10-5pm Société de Lecture, 11, Grand'Rue 1204 Geneva Course fees: £500 / 830 CHF Writing Other Lives: This course is about finding inspiration in the other, it is about writing across...