{"id":3630,"date":"2016-11-01T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2020-08-17T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:42:25","slug":"drawing-out-tales-of-wars-within-in-season-two-of-the-stories-untold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/drawing-out-tales-of-wars-within-in-season-two-of-the-stories-untold\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing out tales of Wars Within, in Season Two of \u201cThe Stories Untold\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the beginning of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/\">Daastan <\/a>hosted its f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/photos\/a.1596257880587918\/1748461182034253\/?type=3&amp;theater\">irst story writing competition <\/a>that set the precedent for other seasons of the program that would follow. The first season was an unimaginable hit, with almost 100 entries from all over Pakistan. Daastan got to uncover some major talent and later on also published a book as a tribute to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/photos\/a.1596234603923579\/1780449958835375\/?type=3&amp;theater\">top 5 position holders<\/a>, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meraqissa.com\/book\/58\">\u201cA Journey to Stardom\u201d, <\/a>which documented their struggles as a writer in a community which tends to overlook the artisans present in it. October of 2016 saw Daastan pitching for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1591137457766627\/posts\/1800294010184303\/?__tn__=-R\">a micro fund of 2500 USD<\/a> which it went on to win for season 2 of \u201cThe Stories Untold\u201d. The fund was offered by the PeaceTech Lab under the banner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacetechlab.org\/peacetech-exchange\">PeaceTech Exchange (PTX)<\/a>. PTX is a workshop-based competition which enables peace sustaining enterprises to contest and win the offered amount by pitching their idea and establishing how it will help underdeveloped regions utilize technology for the advent of peace, social inclusion and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A War Within:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With funding under its belt from Peacetech Lab, PTX, Technology for Peace Initiative (TPI) and United States Institute of Peace, Daastan launched <a href=\"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/s02-awarwithin\/\">season 2 of \u201cThe Stories Untold\u201d<\/a> with the theme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/photos\/a.1596257880587918\/1814069415473429\/?type=3&amp;theater\">\u201cA War Within\u201d<\/a>. This time around, we encouraged writers and participants to look deep into the conflicts and pressures faced by individuals on a daily basis, and chart out whole territories on how to deal with them, both as an observer as well as the victim. It was the perfect opportunity for every person who had felt caged at any time in their life to put that feeling to words and come out stronger and accomplished. 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We received more than 150 entries from all over the world of such high quality that it was a great difficulty to shortlist them. The qualifying rounds consisted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/photos\/a.1829658623914508\/1831466980400339\/?type=3&amp;theater\">top 30<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/photos\/a.1829658623914508\/1840687209478316\/?type=3&amp;permPage=1\">top 15<\/a> and then the final winners. Each shortlisted candidate\u2019s work was published digitally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meraqissa.com\/\">Qissa<\/a>, and the top ones also lived the dream of seeing their work go into print. The certificates and prizes distributed, along with publications, amounted to a grand total of 100,000 PKR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-510x408.jpg 510w, https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within-1080x864.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Certificate-A-war-within.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Certificate for the winners of The Stories Untold Season Two<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a writer who has a story caged in their chests? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meraqissa.com\/signup.php\">Sign up on Qissa<\/a> and publish your work, or keep up with our updates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mydaastan\/\">Daastan <\/a>to participate in our next story writing competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daastan conducts its second nation wide story writing competition &#8220;The Stories Untold&#8221;, bringing to print the future literary stars of Pakistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,212],"tags":[80,23,25,77,81,51,59,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-3630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literary-events","8":"category-our-story","9":"tag-a-war-within","10":"tag-daastan","11":"tag-literature","12":"tag-peacetech-lab","13":"tag-ptx","14":"tag-publishing","15":"tag-qissa","16":"tag-the-stories-untold"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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