Writers’
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Summer School
THERE is a good possibility of a summer school for Pacific Islands’ writers being held at the University of the South Pacific during the 1973 Christmas vacation. The university has applied to UNESCO for financial assistance under their creative arts programme to meet the costs of a summer school which would enable a promising or established Pacific Islands writer from each of the main countries ano territories of the Pacific to come to Suva for about four weeks in December and January.
A number of Pacific Islanders are now writing serious prose, poetry, short stories, novels, plays and other forms of written expression which both UNESCO and the university are interested in en couraging. There is also particular interest in enabling such creative material to be prepared for use on radio.
UNESCO has advised that it is very interested in the possibility and is seeking funds to finance it.
It may be some months before a final answer is known. UNESCO has also suggested that they may be prepared to finance similar creative arts work shops, perhaps at two-year intervals, with each one concentrating on a different theme —for example, painting, dance, music and so on.