The Writers' Club | Ask.or.tz & Bab-ul-Ilm

Writing wasn’t easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It’s wonderful!

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

Launch of the Writers' Club

What is the Writers' Club all about?

Read below to find out

Download Application Form (Right click and Save As)

Deadline for submission of application is Monday, 31 August 2009

Applications to be submitted at Bab-ul-ilm Library or to one of the committee members mentioned below. Or the completed form can be scanned and emailed to writersclub [at] ask.or.tz

What's it about?
Inspiring creative writing skills in an informal environment

Who can join?
Boys aged between 10 and 20 years young (girls wing to be announced soon. Girls who are interested to volunteer should email writersclub [at] ask.or.tz)

When will the club meet?
Once or twice a month during the weekend
First session is planned for Sunday, 19 Sept., 2009

Where?
At Bab-ul-ilm auditorium and other locations

How long?
Sessions of 1-2 hours

Membership fee?
1,000/- per month (payable in advance for one year)

Target?
A published journal of original creative work

How to join?
Forms are available at Bab-ul-Ilm library & at www.ask.or.tz/writersclub/writers_club_application_form.pdf

Submit the filled forms (by Monday, 31 Aug., 2009) to any of the following or email them to writersclub [at] ask.or.tz
Br. Kazim Rizvi [0714 436 157], Br. Hussein Karim [0716 830 715], Br. Mohammedjawaad Kassam [0717 515 296] or Br.Kumail Dewji [0717 577 223]

The child and her diary

She wrote in her diary every night
When bullets passed by her window… she wrote
When Israeli soldiers killed her mother she wrote
She wrote of the horrors she sees
And the nightmares of flames and destruction
She the Palestinian child
Writes in her diary every night
To ease her enormous pain
To sedate her fears and nightmares

That little Palestinian child
Had died while writing in bed
From Israelis bulldozing her home
And now she lies in her tomb
Forgotten…as if she never existed
But her diary will carry on
The suffering of every Palestinian child
And now on her tomb Israeli children play
And sing with no worries of tomorrow
Where she once lived is confiscated
What are left from her family are refugees

And we continue to support Israel
With 10 million dollars a day!
And we continue to say
All humans are created equal

But continue to send to Israel
10 million dollars a day!

Laila Yaghi, June 17, 2002

Be Inspired!

Monday, 31 August 2009

Deadline for submission of Membership Application Form

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Jack Dann

Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Anonymous

If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein

Launch of the Writers' Club

Be Inspired!

Monday, 31 August 2009

Deadline for submission of Membership Application Form

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. Jack Dann

Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer. Susan Sontag

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves. Anonymous

If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. Albert Einstein

Launch of the Writers' Club

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Jack Dann

Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Anonymous

If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein