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.