HIR-E-PITHARA YOUTH POETRY CONTEST

The Hir-e-Pithara Twitter Poetry Contest is a Twitter-only contest that recognizes how information technology, and specifically social media platforms have created new literary expressions, quite distinct from all other ages. The contest is open to poets in all the 22 This fresh mode is a product of its time, and this contest is ILF Samanvay’s way to understand and nurture it as a specific movement of the times we are living in.

Participants can send in one submission in one tweet, based on the theme Insider/Outsider by 15th Nov 2015. A participant can submit any number of tweet poems. The participants can choose to send either a poem originally in English or in translation from any of the 22 languages in the eighth schedule. The participants have to hashtag the first 3 characters of the original language (Eg: #MAL for Malayalam, #ENG for English etc) . One winning entry will be awarded the ILF Samanvay New Age Creativity Certificate. The winner of the HIR-E-PITHARA contest will also get a chance to recite their work along with the winners of the HIR PITHARA Youth poetry contest.

The contest will be open at the twitter handle @ILFSamanvay from 21 Oct 2015. Every entry must be accompanied with the hashtag #HIR. To enter the contest follow us @ILFSamanvay and send in your tweets.