Poetavango short story competition

Poetavango, the poetry group in Maun, is one of the groups that operate under the motto - “If not us then who?”.

They do not like the conditions that they live in, so they get busy trying to create the world that they want and I seriously respect that.   This year they are taking another welcome step toward improving the situation for writers in Botswana by running a short story competition in conjunction with the Maun International Arts Festival. 

In their press release they identified the problem - “One of the objectives of the Maun International Arts Festival 2015 is to promote the literary arts, to give hope to writers who, throughout the years have been, by and large, disgruntled by the conditions of the writing industry in Botswana.

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