Creative Alliance, organisers of Literary Star Search contest, in association with WriteHouse Collective, a creative enterprise, culture and arts firm, will convene the January edition of Artmosphere, the quintessential music, poetry, performance and arts event in Nigeria in Ibadan. Significantly, winner of the 2012 edition of the N1 million short story prize contest will be announced.

The three short story writers in the race for the prize are M.S.C. Okolo with ‘Chasing Lizards’, Bode Asiyanbi with ‘The Woman Without a Name’ and Bonaventure Chukwu with ‘Mother’.

The monthly Book, Culture and Lifestyle event is tagged “Time Lines”. This month’s event is scheduled for Saturday, January 19, 2013 at ibridgehub, Nustreams Conference Centre.

Artmosphere’s Time Lines will also play host to Funmi Aluko, prolific womanist poet and internationally acclaimed writer, Atilola Morounfolu, spoken word artiste, creative entrepreneur and author of Antonyms of a Mirage. The event will also feature Nwachukwu Egbunnike, editor, blogger and author of Dyed Thoughts, and poet Rasaq Malik Gbolahan. There will also be beautiful music performances and free books for early comers.