{"id":3952,"date":"2018-07-15T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2020-08-17T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:27:22","slug":"rounding-up-the-south-asian-literati-through-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/rounding-up-the-south-asian-literati-through-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounding Up the South Asian Literati through Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Come the summer of 2018, having just successfully conducted a ground breaking season<\/em> of The Stories Untold<\/a>, Daastan<\/a> teamed up with a few others who were also in the race to bring quality literature<\/strong> to their readers. Since its inception, Daastan <\/a>and Qissa<\/a> have scaled, and eventually launched a writing competition<\/em> which was dubbed \u201c<\/strong>Literati<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/strong>. The team was once again taking not only Pakistan by storm, but also slowly but surely taking over the world too<\/em>. And so, to bring another round of thought-provoking stories that made one bite their nails with the anticipation of what was coming next, we opened the award for participants from all over South Asia<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literati Micro Fiction:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Literati <\/a>was brought to the public in collaboration with White Falcon Publishing<\/em><\/a>, a company that provided the services of self-publishing much the same way as us and encouraged quality literature to find its way to the surface, but across the border in India<\/em>. Another collaborator of the micro story writing competition was Outcast<\/em><\/a>, a queer lit magazine which was founded by a graduated Literary Fellow of Daastan<\/a>. The authors of the micro fiction award were given a time period of one month, in which they were to write short stories with no more than 2500 words<\/em> on the themes of \u201cThe Fifth Rivulet\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cMosaiced Souls\u201d<\/strong>. The themes themselves were enough to get any true storyteller thinking <\/em>and dreaming <\/em>in their world of imagination, spinning and weaving tales which would eventually find their way to our screens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daastan, in collaboration with White Falcon Publishing and Outcast Magazine, launches Literati Competition <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Result:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The award was closed a month after its launch, and all the partners were delighted to received more than a hundred submissions<\/strong> of gripping and awe-inspiring literature. The submissions were all carefully reviewed, and the top 20<\/em> were selected. These finalists would receive the exciting prize of seeing their work go into print<\/strong>, along with exclusive opportunities<\/strong> to further their career as a writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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