KITO DIARIES PRIZE FOR WRITING: AND THE LONGLIST OF ENTRIES ARE…
Post-deadline for the submission of entries, which was on December 30 2020, and after working through the acceptance of the entries whose submissions met the guidelines and whose storytelling followed the theme, the judges returned with their favorite entries, from which the long-list of twenty-one stories/poems were picked.
To protect the identities of the people whose entries have been picked, only the titles of the stories are going to be posted.
In no particular order, the longlisted twenty-one entries are:
1. In Praise Of Open Doors
2. Of All The Things To Be
3. Diary of a Gay Teen
4. Diaries of a Queer Mind
5. The Man In A Gown
6. Where Happiness Is All That Matters
7. Let Me Be
8. The Demons You Name
9. The One Who Lived
10. Years Apart
11. Stages in Colour
12. Clandestine Actions
13. Living By Me
14. Live At Last
15. For The Ones That Shine Briefly
16. More Than The Nothing We Are
17. Down The Memory Lane
18. All Bright and Beautiful
19. Brave
20. Not At The War Front
21. Because Here, Memories Are Confused Beings
From this long-list, the shortlisted entries will be announced on Monday, January 18.
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3 Comments
Tony
January 11, 09:20Congratulations to everyone. I wish we can know the total entries gotten.
Pink Panther
January 11, 09:22It is our hope to combine the total entries into a collection of short stories that will be available to the community.
Tony
January 11, 13:21I actually meant like total entries gotten. Like a lot of competitions say the total entries they get. I want to know how competitive this was.