: For everyone who loves literature, the highly acclaimed ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival has announced its popular ‘Annual Writing Competition’, which allows winners to blog officially for the festival.
Held in association with Teamwork Arts, in its second year, the competition offers bloggers and writers a chance to inspire audience through their words on the festival’s official blog, which receives over 500,000 hits during the festival.
“Last year’s first ever Annual Writing Competition saw a tremendous response from young writers across India, and from countries as far as the US, UK, Canada, Egypt, Singapore and Pakistan. This competition demonstrates the festival’s aim to support and promote artistic expression through writing,” said festival producer Sanjoy K. Roy.
The 10 winners will be offered the opportunity to join the festival as part of its official blogging team.
Applicants must submit book reviews, short stories, literary articles or creative responses of 1,000 words, or 50 lines of poetry on any of the festival’s past or upcoming authors and their works. — IANS
