NOTE: This is a temporary page. Please check back very soon for information regarding PALF in Mali in 2010 and the PALF Book Prize, to be launched in March 2009.

We at PALF would like to inform you that because of difficulty securing sponsors during these very rocky financial times, PALF will be canceling its 2009 Writer’s Conference and concentrating all energies on returning to Africa in 2010 at Timbuktu, Mali.

 

Moving the conference to Mali in 2010 had always been a goal of PALF’s and it is one we are excited to fulfill. Though more details will be revealed in the coming months, we can share with you that the 2010 conference will focus one Francophone literature in Africa and the African Diaspora. Special courses, lectures, and events will honor Nigerian writers during what will be the 50^th Anniversary of Nigerian independence. There will also be homages to outstanding Francophone writers, including: Camara Laye, Aime Cesaire, Ousmane Sembene, and Leopold Senghor.

 

Please be sure to check out website for updates and information on our upcoming full-length manuscript contest (The PALF Book Prize) which opens March of 2009.

Mali, courtesy of National Geographic.