ACER Writing House

Ebi Robert is a lawyer and creative writer. He is the author of the speculative fiction novels Banishment of the Six Forces and Riddles in the Shadows; his other published works include Zige and Eulogy and Puffery. Several of his works have been featured in international anthologies. He is the founder of ACER Writing House and a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, British Science Fiction Association, Association of Nigerian Authors, and World Institute for Peace.
Ebi’s Community Climate Fellowship project is based in Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, where he will lead a set of activities designed to raise awareness of climate issues and encourage people to envision climate futures: a radio program on the station Golden 97.5 FM exploring visions of hopeful climate futures; an in-person event featuring readings from the Center for Science and the Imagination’s book Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures; and the assembly and distribution of a chapbook in Nigerian Pidgin English with contributions from local writers exploring culturally responsive and locally rooted climate futures. Check out all of out community climate fellows here: https://csi.asu.edu/community-climate-fellowship/

Good day everyone,

You are warmly invited to join our upcoming webinar on “The Right to Life” — an insightful session focused on understanding one of the most fundamental human rights and how it applies in our society today.

🗓 Date: Monday, 27th October 2025
🕒 Time: 5:30 PM
🎙 Organized by: Human and Community Rights Centre (HCRC)

This session will explore the importance, challenges, and protection of the right to life — reminding us of the value and dignity inherent in every human being.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, share, and be inspired to promote respect for life and human rights in your community.

We look forward to your participation!

Register by following the link below

https://forms.gle/zLBYvQAprVn9fzxM6

This is the form.

Please, interested students can fill this form and commence their registration.

NOTE: Interested ANA members who are not students too, are permitted to fill the form.

The workshop now comes under the ANA BAYELSA Continuing Creative Writing Education Programme.

Those outside Bayelsa State, can also fill the form, because the event promises to be hybrid too (to be held offline and online).

Signed

Ebi Robert

Chairman, ANA BAYELSA

INTRODUCING LITERARY SPOILING

If you're a lover of literature or literary works, you must have come in contact with literary criticism or literary studies. Over the years, this field has been dedicated to sound interpretation of literary works, and of the use of methods and/or literary theories to decipher meaning to the creative works and also evaluate them, etc.

But despite the fact that literary criticism is not focused on fault finding p***e, many writers entertain some form of phobia when their works are subject to such intense scholarly evaluation. Some do not want such exercise at all.

In ACER WRITING HOUSE, we are a writing firm that understands the importance of such exercises. We also think that writers should be bold enough to even bear evaluations that do not necessarily follow some strictly laid down blueprints, but a line of unconventional tools and techniques founded on literary knowledge. This is why we've come up with the initiative known as "literary spoiling".

Literary spoiling is not about the conventional spoilers, where future events of finished arts are made known to readers even before they read or watch the scenes, thereby, killing the expected suspense intended. It's about reading a yet-to-be published work or even a published work with the sole aim of finding faults where necessary. Yes, we find faults. We do not praise your work. We are into fault finding.

The philosophy behind literary spoiling is to look for hidden blunders and then advise on the way forward. This is not an editing service, it is not to solve grammar or punctuation defects, we instead tell you the problems with your work, your grammar, punctuation, scenes, setting, plot, approach, character, etc. We speak only the bad or worse about them, so as to help the authors see what was not seen and improve their works. The aim is to improve your work at the end. We use the negatives to gain the positives.

Our services can be overall or in parts depending on what you want. When we spoil a work, we give recommendations of professional repairers who can fix them. These repairers are not necessarily in our employ. Most of them are independent professionals who are contracted to repair bad works. To us, every work is bad until labelled good.

Points to note:

1. Our spoiling reports are not published online, they're privately delivered.

2. Authors who intend spoiling their works can do so anonymously through another proxy author or sender, or even do so directly if they so wish.

We believe that writers must be ready to embrace spoilers, and the technical art criticism if they must grow.

If you're interested in getting your work studied and spoiled, then send us an email at: [email protected]

Acer Writing House

Announcer.

As we wrap up this year, let's take a look at the titles by yours truly. The intellectual products of 2024, exclusive of all articles and commentaries written.

Billed as a resource person for this writer's webinar.