Detailing Is The Key For Any Writer – Irshad Kamil
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Shimla, Nov 13 – Young winners pan India under the age of 18 and Himachal’s senior writers over the age of 40, eminent writers from Shimla and young students will attend the event. The event will feature readings by young children and reviews by college students. There will be an Interactive Workshop on Creative Writing for School Students and Writers presented by Irshad Kamil. Esteemed guest list included Secretary Rakesh Kanwar, Dr Pankaj Lalit, Aarti Gupta, C S Yadav, Sr Additional General Manager, SJVN, Dr Usha Bande, Dr Purnima Chauhan, Prof & Principal Meenakshi Faith Paul, Vidyanidhi Chhabra, Sri Srinivas Joshi and writers and poets from our city. Students from various schools and colleges were present to attend the Workshop held by Irshad Kamil.
The creativity and imagination of our budding writers at such a young age are amazing. The clarity of thought, the expressive flow of ideas and words, and their command over language are highly commendable. The steps leading to the conception and final release of the book titled 51 Scintillating Tales – Short Stories by Children and its successful acceptance in the literary circles were quite encouraging for the young writers and that filled them with a feeling of proud accomplishment.
Following suit, we planned yet another short story competition for children under the age group of eighteen years. This time they were given an open theme, with a word limit of 1,000 to 5,000. The competition was held over a span of four months from April to July, 2022, and each month two winners were selected to be awarded a cash prize along with an assured place in the top 31 list of stories. Our winners for the four months were, Sanskriti Rao and Pritha Doegar in April; Shivangi Sharma and Aanika Gajendragad in May; Ananya Thakur and Charu Sharma in June; and Baani Simar Kaur and Vasundhara Joshi in July.
Our esteemed panel of judges—Dr Vidyanidhi Chhabra, Gunjan Batra, Jael Priscilla, Prantik Bose, Rachna Rohatgi, Astha Chadha, Parveen Bhalla, and Tanaya Ghose Dastidar—had very encouraging words to share about the writers.
Each story title page features a QR Code, that can be scanned with any smartphone to listen to the stories. Thus, we now introduce you to Keekli’s very own Podcast Channel, ‘Keekli – Little Steps Big Strides’. The credit for the book design cover too goes to two of our winners, Atharv Vats and Pritha Doegar.
Young kids read short passages from their story featured in Fiction Treasure Trove — Ms Shivangi Sharma — Spirits of the Heart ; Pritha Doegar — IT Seeks Revenge; Baani Simar Kaur — Into the Oblivion; Rudra Chauhan — देवदार के पेड़; Vasundhra Joshi — The Stranger and Yashita Verma — The Train on Platform Number 10.
College students who reviewed Himachal ke rang were Shruti; Dipti Sood, Rahul Dev Premi & Aanchal Sharma.
