Story Contest for Students

  The Kathmandu Post, 22 June 2000

 

Spiny Babbler, the arts and literature organization, is holding a high-school level short story program involving more than 20 nations of the Asia Pacific Region. Students have been invited to write stories related to mountain issues. Such stories may be based on broad-ranging topics such as environment, wildlife, culture, geography, economy, and topics of human experience. Para Limbu, chairperson of Spiny Babbler and Project Leader of the program said the Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) is supporting this attempt of the organization.

 

The short story competition is among a series of global interaction programs being scheduled by Spiny Babbler as it approaches its 10th anniversary. The October edition of the literary journal is to cover approximately 50 contemporary poets of the United Kingdom, Patricia Oxley, editor of Acumen, among the finest journals of present day England, is putting together the edition.

 

Stories submitted to the program will be published in a special edition of Spiny Babbler monthly journal and distributed in about 30 countries worldwide. Nations participating in the program include Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, and Singapore.