Emirates Literature launches a program to nurture young creators

The Emirates Literature Foundation has announced the launch of a new and unique creative program, in partnership with Seddiqi Holding Group, to be the first mentorship program in the region dedicated entirely to nurturing promising writers residing in the UAE and developing their promising creative talents to enter the world of writing through the big door.

Experience and knowledge

The director of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Ahlam Blouki, confirmed that the new fellowship program will extend for a period of one year, as a free grant for qualified applicants, allowing them to benefit from the experience and knowledge of the most famous writers and specialists in creative writing and to address the foundations of the novelist craft and its multiple stages, all the way to Marketing work for agents and publishing houses.

Al-Balooki added, “Although this initiative aspires to create 50 writers over a period of 5 continuous years, the literary community that this initiative will create is in fact much larger than this number, because it will establish a form of actual competition between local and resident talents, given what they will be subject to. He has some names nominated for it, from training and framing the brightening of prestigious literary names that will ensure the development of their skills and the advancement of their literary writing levels to run for this project and then compete more broadly.”

creative talents

 Festival director Ahlam Blocky told Emirates Today that investing in the diversity that permeates Emirati society, which is enshrined in the presence of nearly 200 mixed nationalities in the country, will devote a remarkable momentum to the nature of the participants, the richness of their contents, and even their numbers, saying, "This initiative highlights the importance of this initiative. In the experience of diversity, which it dedicates as a bilingual speaker in Arabic and English on the one hand, and directed towards writers from all countries of the world.”

Al-Bolooki indicated that the new fellowship program seeks to highlight and nurture creative talents, and raise them to a global level, as writers will be able to benefit from the experience and knowledge of the most famous writers and specialists in creative writing, throughout the year, such as the crime writer Mark Bellingham, and the Icelandic writer The famous, Yersa Sigurdadottir, and Shahd Al-Rawi, the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted for the Arab Booker Prize, and Talib Al-Rifai, the well-known Kuwaiti writer, while the program hosts exclusive workshops by a group of the most famous international writers, most notably Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, and others. «.

cultural initiatives

 Hind Abdel Hamid Siddiqi, Director of Marketing and Communications at Seddiqi Holding Group, pointed to the need to preserve the status of Arabic literature and enhance the pillars of the cultural sector in general, as an essential part of its effective contribution to society, saying, “In our days of excessive audio and visual stimuli, we strongly believe that the world needs To more writers to inform, educate, and connect with others, creating real memories and stories that will last a lifetime. “Hosting” The main vision of our group, is to pioneer initiatives calling for the development of the cultural sector and this program is designed to meet the needs of aspiring writers in the UAE and across We look forward to launching this participation and working with the Emirates Literature Foundation to continuously develop the program to become a major platform for aspiring writers in the region.”

Festival director Ahlam Al-Bolooki confirmed that 10 participants will be selected for the inaugural session in both Arabic and English. Marketing and promoting it, adding, “Requests are accepted from serious writers who are looking to publish their fiction and wish to edit and revise drafts of their literary works, while the fellowship program welcomes writers of different genres, through the program’s endeavor to discover writers who have exceptional potential and are still at the beginning of their journey. creative".

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