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Welcome!
writerslodge.com is the online community for Nigerian writers and readers of all interests and skill levels. Whether you're an enthusiastic, creative writer looking for the perfect place to store and display your writing online or a casual reader searching for a good story, this is the right spot for you.
Help us to make it a community bursting with activities, inspiration and creativity.
Free memberships are available to everyone. Each membership includes numerous writing tools and the chance to meet and bond with fresh creative minds, just like you!
Whether you're writing your first poem or your tenth creative writing novel, Writers' Lodge is right for you! You get to read feedback on your writing and meet other writers and readers.
Make your connections in the Message Forum and join discussions about literary agents, conferences, writing contests, and other topics of interest.
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The Lodge
www.writerslodge-ng.com is a new project for Nigerian writers.
Its aim is simple: to provide a forum for writers to share their writings, get reviewed, and follow events and news across the Nigerian Literary landscape.
Simply create an account an all the tools you need to start are available to you.
It is also a great spot for readers. The tons of materials that writers will be submitting will ensure that there is always new stuff to read anytime you drop by.
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Narrative Writing contest
Narrative's Third-Person Story Contest is open to works written either in the limited third-person point of view or from an omniscient perspective. The contest is open to all writers and to both fiction and nonfiction entries, including short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works.
First Place: $3,000
Second Place: $1,500
Third Place: $750
and ten finalists will each receive $100
Entries to editors@narrativemagazine.com
or http://narativemagazine.com/submission
All entries will be considered for publication
Entry deadline: March 31. Guidelines.
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Forum rules
The Writers Lodge forums are intended to provide a warm, friendly atmosphere for the community. In order to maintain order and a sense of community, all users should read and follow these conditions. By participating in the forum, users are affirming their willingness to comply with these terms. This article has been created to provide you with information about what you can expect here, what is expected of you, and to answer some questions you may have in your use of the Writers Lodge Online forums.
RULES OF CONDUCT
1. You must have an active Writers Lodge account to post on our forums.
Your forum account is linked to your Writers Lodge account.
2. Posting images on the forums is not allowed for now with the following exception:
a. Signature graphics are permitted, but must follow these guidelines: signature graphics that may only contain your name, pen name or personal slogan or other text that is directly related to your account. All content must be in good taste.
Additional restrictions are as follows:
* No more than one signature image may be used
* Maximum height: 120 pixels
* Maximum width: 400 pixels
* Maximum file size: 24,000 bytes (not Kbytes)
3. Be respectful of others at all times.
The purpose of the forum is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Occasionally, there will be conflicts that arise when people voice opinions. Be courteous when disagreeing with others. It is possible to disagree without being insulting.
4. Ranting is prohibited
A rant is a post which is long-winded, redundant and filled with angry, non-constructive comments. A free exchange of ideas is essential to building a strong sense of community and helpful in the development of the art, but rants are disruptive and incite flaming and trolling. Please post your thoughts in a concise, clear manner and avoid going off on rambling tangents.
5. Personal attacks are prohibited.
Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts which are designed to personally berate or insult another. Text of this nature is not beneficial to the community spirit and will not be tolerated. Members are cautioned to avoid personal attacks.
6. Trolling is prohibited.
Trolling is the word used to describe a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting the members of the forum community. Posts of this nature are disruptive and do not convey a friendly attitude.
7. Private communication between the moderators and administrators of the forum and the forum users is not to be made public on these forums or by any other venue.
You are not permitted to publicize any private correspondence (including petitions) received from any of the aforementioned.
8. Warnings and bans are not to be discussed on the forum.
Such matters shall remain private between the moderators/administrators and the user. Questions or comments concerning warnings and bans will be conveyed through e-mail or private messaging. Likewise, discussions regarding moderator actions are not permitted on the forum. If you have questions regarding a post or thread, please contact forum@writerslodge-ng.com
9. Immediate banning from the forum can result from any of the following:
The posting of pornography; discriminatory remarks which are sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive; excessive obscene or vulgar language; posts which discuss or illustrate illegal activity; providing links to sites that contain any of the aforementioned.
10. Spamming, bumping and pyramid quoting are prohibited.
Spam is considered to be repetitive posting of the same topic or text or nonsensical posts that have no substance and are often designed to annoy other forum users. Bumping posts in order to keep them near the top of the list is also prohibited. Petitions or "/signed" posts are a version of bumping and likewise are not permitted.
Pyramid quoting is a response to a forum thread which contains the quotes of four or more previous posters, sometimes with additional spaces added unnecessarily. Posts of this nature are not conducive to community spirit and are unwelcome.
11. Redundant threads will be deleted.
As a courtesy to others before beginning a new thread, please look to see if an active thread on that topic has already been established. If so, place your comments there instead. Multiple threads on the same subject clutter up the forum needlessly and many good ideas may be lost. Keep discussions about one topic to one thread only.
12. Impersonating another forum user, moderator, administrator or Media Range employee is strictly prohibited.
You are expressly forbidden from impersonating anyone else, including those named above, on the forum even in jest. This may be grounds for permanent loss of your Writers Lodge account.
13. All posts must be about or related to writing.
14. You may not post advertisements.
15. Avoid using profanity.
Using partial masking (such as asterisks or punctuation marks) to bypass the profanity filter is prohibited and will result in the same action as if the actual word had been typed.
16. Post constructively.
Negative feedback can be very useful, provided that it is presented in a civil, factual manner. Tell us what you don't like and why and how you feel it could be improved. Posts that are insulting and rude may be deleted, no matter how valid the ideas behind them may be.
17. Disputes which cannot be resolved between forum users and moderators may be arbitrated by the forum administrators.
18. Please use English when posting on the forums.
Please use English when posting on the forums as a courtesy to other writers unless the forum channel is specifically created for discussions in another language.
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2009 ANA LITERARY PRIZES: CALL FOR ENTRIES
Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, willing to enter their new works for the Annual Literary Prizes of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) may do so now.
Interested creative writers should send six copies (6) of their entries (specifying the category being entered for) alongside a covering letter to the General Secretary, Association of Nigerian Authors, Suite 67, National Theater Complex, Iganmu Lagos. The entries which can be for any of the following categories must not have been entered before and must have been published between 2008 and 2009:
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