Nepal Youth Literature Festival

Kathmandu / Aug 20: If you are a literature geek, you can populate yourself with fellow enthusiasts at the ‘Nepal Youth Literature Festival’ that’s currently taking place in Budhanilkantha School. Organized by the school’s Drama and Debating Club, the festival opened on August 18.

The festival is directed at young readers and writers who will get the opportunity to interact with contemporary Nepali writers about literature and writing. The guest list includes Buddhisagar, Subin Bhattarai, Amar Nyaupane, Upendra Subba and Nayan Raj Pandey. They will be giving interviews and writing workshops at the festival.

Similarly, the organizers will be holding different competitions on short story writing, poetry writing and essay writing. High school students and undergraduate students can register to participate in the competition.

The festival ends on August 22 with the award ceremony and the final exhibition of the winning write-ups.

The tickets can be registered through dadc@bnks.edu.np. Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/news/4140