Enter the tourism short story contest

The objective of the contest is to market local tourism destinations so your short story should be set in one of our many lovely tourist hotspots. Maybe you want to write a sexy story set in Mowana Lodge or a murder mystery on the Chobe River. Get the creative cogs greased to come up with something top-notch. The submission guidelines warn that they expect you to have visited the place or to do research if you haven’t so that the destination is well-represented in your story. The organisers warn: “Tourism fiction is a genre of fiction that is written to generate tourism to specific areas. This is done by setting fictional stories in real attractions. Tourism fiction refers to modern works written to specifically promote tourism.”

For poetry, the guidelines say that they are looking for praise poetry (poko) about real tourist destinations in Botswana.