PRESS RELEASE: Competition time! Heri-Trav is running two competions. The poetry competitions and the e-book piracy campaign!
- Heri-Trav is hosting a poetry contest as part of the Intangible cultural heritage festival.
Participants stand a chance for their poem to be published.
Two special issues will be published- Students and Adults
Entry is R50 and open to everyone in the world. You can send up to 3 poem entries
The theme is “My town” or “My school”. It can be a poem about your hometown, the town you live in or any town in the world that you love or have an interest in OR your school.
Any poetry form is welcome including, Haiku, Senryu & Tanka
Entries may be in any language from around the world, but must include an English or Afrikaans translation of the poem(s).
Poems must not be more than 33 lines.
The assessors are well known poets and writers. Hendry Kortjie- poet, writer and Churchil Naude, One of Afrikaans’ top Rappers and poet.
Celebrate your heritage, let’s honour our towns. This is how we connect the world, keeping intangible cultural heritage going and building bridges through literature. connecting with each other and keeping economic growth, tourism growth, literature, art and culture, heritage and human dignity alive.
For entries e-mail: heritrav1@gmail.com
Closes: 18 July 2023
Read here:
Stef Cupido lives in Wellington and is the mother of a twelve-year-old girl. She loves animals and music. 'I'm first of all a writer and then a poet. I also like to draw trees and scenes from nature, but I see myself as an amateur in that regard.' At the moment she's concentrating on writing short stories and poems, and she is especially fond of using the haiku as a form. 'In 2018 when I decided to write full-time, I fell in love with the haiku. I started the collective Falling to introduce poetry in all its forms. The project has been launched this year on Nelson Mandela Day with the Illustrated haiku collage about social distance & corona virus. 'When I received the news that I was chosen for the Kommadagga Workshop, it was such a shock! I was in the internet café and I put my hands to my face out of joy! I kept shaking my head and the people around me must have thought I went totally off my rocker!' Stef wants to discover the stories deep inside her and is grateful for the opportunity to meet other writers and to be able to talk with other people with ink in their blood. 'This project brings me more self-confidence; I don't have to have doubts any longer.'
