The 5th Maun International Arts Festival

The festival will take place in various locations around Maun from October 23 to November 1, 2015.  Part of this year’s festival was a short story contest.  According to the press release, the original plan was to publish an anthology of the winning stories as well as some of the better submissions, and have the book read at the festival.

Unfortunately, the plans had to be changed.  There were over 40 submissions, but the judges for the contest (Barolong Seboni, Wame Molefhe, and Cheryl Ntumy) advised that the submissions (outside of the winners) were not up to standard.  They thought many were submitted as rough drafts, which of course, is not acceptable.