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It's been a minute here!

Meet our Executive Council for the 2024/2025 Academic Session.

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Read about Poetic Wednesdays Initiative, Kano International Poetry Festival and literary development in Northern Nigeria here!

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I made this tweet in 2021.
This is 2025. We have @Kanopoetryfest happening in September.

@NaseebaBabale and @salimpotter somehow found the money and the perfect team, and now September is going to be a blast!

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Pictorial excerpts and videos from the workshop ||Silent reading session|| Thursday 24th 2025.

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Pictorial excerpts and videos from the workshop ||Silent reading session|| Thursday 24th 2025.

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Pictorial excerpts and videos from the workshop ||Silent reading session|| Thursday 24th 2025.

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Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
📅 August 7–9

👉 For partnership and sponsorship: [phone]

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MEET OUR PARTNER

We’re excited to welcome Bookish Alchemy as a partner of the CWC Book and Arts Festival!

With a strong commitment to literature and community, Bookish Alchemy has consistently fostered creativity through book clubs, author events, workshops, and pub services.

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Their flagship initiatives like BOOKCENTRIC and the Zazzau Books and Arts Festival reflect a shared vision of nurturing storytelling, imagination, and cultural engagement.

We’re proud to walk this journey with them!

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Tick tock!

Send in your submissions!!!

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📍: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
📅 7–9 August, 2025

📞 For Enquiries: [phone]

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MEET OUR PARTNER

We’re excited to partner with the Page Painters Initiative, a national network of passionate writers dedicated to promoting literature, creative expression, and storytelling across Nigeria.

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By uniting voices from diverse regions, they create platforms for emerging and established writers to connect, share, and grow. We’re proud to have them as a partner at the CWC Book & Arts Festival!

Mark your calendars for Room 70: A Homecoming for art, literature, and culture.

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and the PEN/ Faulkner Award.

W. W. Norton, Virago, and Masobe published Ghostroots in 2024, and will publish her novel in 2026.

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AUTHOR OF THE WEEK: PEMI AGUDA

Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.

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She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine.

Ghost roots, her debut story collection, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Awards in Fiction

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🤝 CALL FOR PARTNERS & SPONSORS

📣 Are you a brand, literary association, cultural platform or creative business?

This is your chance to be part of something iconic — Room 70: A Homecoming for Art, Literature & Culture, the first-ever CWC Book & Arts Festival in ABU.

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Partner with us to spotlight creativity, support emerging talents, and position your brand at the heart of Nigeria’s cultural renaissance.

📞 For sponsorship or partnership enquiries: [phone]
📧 Or email us at: [email protected]

Let’s create culture — together.