{"id":3859,"date":"2018-04-20T22:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2020-08-17T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:48:39","slug":"hoisting-the-flag-of-literature-all-over-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/hoisting-the-flag-of-literature-all-over-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoisting the Flag of Literature All Over Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After diving headfirst into the Olympiad<\/em> culture and sponsoring numerous<\/em> talent hunting competitions in the span of just a few months, Daastan <\/a>started attracting the attention of the big names<\/strong> in the community and getting invited not just to help groom the talent<\/em>, but also share our experience<\/em> and inspire<\/em> those who might want to walk down the same path. And so, with this, we zeroed in on providing sponsorship<\/strong>, technical and media related support<\/strong>, and marketing <\/strong>to the literature exclusive festivals<\/em> and happenings across Pakistan. The team would then help those interested find their way to their first self-published works through Qissa<\/a>, empowering them to monetize<\/em> their hobby and \u2013 if they chose so \u2013 to make a career out of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Seminar on Feminism:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first of such events was a seminar titled \u201cFeminism in Language, Literature and Marketplace\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, organized on Women\u2019s Day<\/em>, where Daastan<\/a>\u2019s founder, Mr. Syed Ommer Ammer, was invited as a guest speaker<\/strong>. Ommer shared the success stories of Ms. Laiba Sehrish Nawaz<\/em> – the youngest published author of Peshawar, Ms. Lareb Soomro<\/em> – the youngest published author or Sindh and Ms. Faiza Kayani<\/em> a police commando who defied all odds to chase her dream and published her first book through Qissa<\/a>. He also spoke about how Daastan <\/a>was enabling women<\/strong> voice their opinions through their stories, and also gain financial independence <\/em>by training them to generate revenue from their writings and connecting them to resources which can help them do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NUST and LUMS Literary Fests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a couple weeks after that, we sponsored not only the National Literary Festival<\/a><\/strong> by NUST in Islamabad<\/em>, but also one of the biggest campus based literary festivals in all of Pakistan, i.e. the LUMS Literary Festival 2018<\/a>. Through Daastan<\/a>, the literary festivals received judges to adjudicate<\/a> all their competitions, discounts <\/em>on all books published on Qissa<\/a>, the chance to talk to our team and learn more about utilizing digital tools<\/em> to help them carve their out their niche in the industry. Not only this, the winners of the LUMS Literary Festival received wild card entries <\/em>to the finalists of the on-going season of \u2018The Stories Untold\u2019<\/a>, through which the authors would all go into print for free<\/strong> through Daastan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n