[authorme] PUBLISHING EMERGING WRITERS, MAY 2008
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ONE WORLD PROJECT CREATING BUZZ IN PUBLISHING WORLD - Lauri Kubuitsile
FICTION STORIES PRESERVE ORAL TRADITIONS - Bruce Cook
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ONE WORLD PROJECT CREATING BUZZ IN PUBLISHING WORLD
By Lauri Kubuitsile
?The project was initially conceived as an effort to address the imbalance
in the world social system. Several attempts to actualize it failed because I
didn?t have the forum to galvanize productivity and also because the few
writers that I contacted weren?t too keen,? Adagha said. But, he didn?t give
up. He decided that the internet could serve as the vehicle to bring emerging
writers from around the world together for the project he envisioned. He found
the perfect home at the Zoetrope website. ?Zoetrope provided the much needed
platform.?
That was in December of last year. He set up a virtual office and started
collecting writers. ?The idea was to get about ten upcoming writers, who would
contribute three stories each. Stories that would thematically address third
world issues, this initial figure was turned down by the few writers who
started out with me. They agreed to contribute only one story each and that was
how we started. Somehow the body of writers I was assembling kept expanding,
even with the several withdrawals. By the time the anthology was ready to be
shipped out, we had on board a fantastic array of talented writers who had
contributed their voices to the theme.?
Stories have now been submitted, critiqued and edited by members, and Adagha
and his group now have a finished manuscript that has been sent out to numerous
publishers. Among the writers who have participated in the One World Project
are Orange Prize winner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bridport and Fish
prizewinner, Vanessa Gebbie, and 2004 Caine Prize short-listed author, Chika
Unigwe, among others. The twenty-one writers who have contributed stories come
from all over the world including Greece, Botswana, Puerto Rico, Australia,
India, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Kenya, USA, UK, Zimbabwe, Malaysia and Nigeria.
And buzz about the project is growing. The group have set up a blog to follow
the progress toward publication. ( See
http://theoneworldproject.blogspot.com/). For Adagha, the journey to the
realisation of his dream is an exciting one, ?In terms of effect and impact, I
would say the momentum is just building. We are currently talking with some
publishers, who we hope will help us spread the ?One World? message to every
corner of the globe.?
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FICTION STORIES PRESERVE ORAL TRADITIONS
By Bruce L. Cook
Often our fiction stories are more important than they seem.
If you live in an undeveloped area, or if you grew up in one, you might well
carry stories that will disappear when that area experiences high population
density, industrial development, and global language and communications.
Being from Chicago, I wonder about stories and traditions that existed when
American Indians occupied that land by Lake Michigan. If I could visit and meet
with the elders of that time, I have no doubt that I would learn stories ? many
about hunting and perhaps religion ? which are completely gone from that area
today.
The same is true of families. When you conduct genealogical research, and
when you unearth a box of relics from that largely forgotten past, you dearly
wish you could go back and ask someone to tell you those stories ? things that
?everyone? at the time knew about each family member and how they lived and
worked in a time and place we can never see. To the extent that you can gather
such information, you do well to write memoirs, which provide nonfiction
treasures for the generations ahead.
And the same is true for language, for the implantation of a new language in
a place gradually erodes the speaking of traditional languages and dialects
until only Grandma, or an old man down the street, remembers the original
language at all.
Time has its way of grinding on and eroding the past, and much of this (not
all) is good. Meanwhile we, as fiction writers who still remember, have
inherited the responsibility to write our stories ? historical novels, if you
will - which paint a picture of the past or even present for future readers who
wish they could come back to visit old times.
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