About this Literary Festival:
LITSTIVAL – A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors’ books and fostering a love of literature and writing.
This literary festival, LITSTIVAL, was organised through online medium to benefit writers, give them motivation, exposure, experiences and a chance to fulfil their writing dream.
With around 100 participants all over India, this LITSTIVAL was organized by 14 Watsapp Writing Communities via Google meet on 11 March, Saturday from 2pm till 10 pm.
About the Organisers:
Nazia Tabasum A: She is a published author of three books and a content writer with 4+ years in writing. She has 2 years experience as an language editor and worked as editorial assistant for an international client.
Her main motive to initiate this virtual literary festival was to bring out talents of every individual writer who is striving to showcase their progress to the outside world.
This festival intent was to help writers to explore various literary events, make connections, improve writing skills, get encouragements and a platform to share their books and writing journeys.
Collaborations:
We were glad to collaborate this lit festival with our online writing group, Scribblers’ Voice which has around 180+ writers, 13 other writing groups in Watsapp and many individual writers.
Nazia Tabasum A – Literary Festival Organizer
Sneha S – Graphic Designer
Tousif Reza – EMCEE| Open Mic Host
Bhumika Tewari – Content Writing Workshop Host
Sarvjeet Mishra (Sarvad Publication) – Publisher’s Voice and Book Launch Host
Ethina V – Creative Writing Webinar Host (SRM College Professor)
Mumtaz Sonawala – Books Review Host
Riddhima Sen – Writers’ Interaction Host
Gloria Seji – Anthology Compiling Discussion Host
Bhoomi Gupta, Kushagra Verma – Promotional Heads
Online Writing Collab Groups:
1. Scribblers’ Voice – Nazia Tabasum A
2. Shades of Writers – Ishika Goyal and Aayush Khanna
3. Word Secret Community – Aditya Pratap
4. Dreamers Publication – Pavithra Srinivasan
5. Dreamers Community – Pavithra Srinivasan
6. Pious Poetry Publishers – Aayush Khanna and Writer Lucky
7. Sarvad Publication – Sarvjeet Mishra
8. Wordsmith Community – Kushagra Verma
9. Pen and Pencil Society – Manoj Saraswat and Kushagra Verma
10. Shayeron Ki Mehfil – Rixit Midha
11. Secret Superstar’s Community – Aiman Moin Raza and Dev
12. Mehfil – E- Kitaab – Mumtaz Sonawala
13. Karb – E – Ehsas – Aashim Sharma and Gaurav Nirmal
14. Prolific Art Faction – Dev and Nikita Poddar
Events Guests:
- Mr. Piyush Goel (Celebrity Author Speaker) – Also referred as Mirror Image Man in the media, is an Indian writer, author, and World Record Holder, known for writing books in mirror image style.
- Mr. Sameer Bhatia ( Open Mic Guest) – Multi-talented and multi-genre artist and musician, Sameer is a poet, a painter, a songwriter and a teacher. He has received numerous awards from Government and private organizations.
- Mr. Aayush Khanna ( Writers Interaction Guest) – Software Engineer and a published author of 3 solo poetry books. He won around 300+ writing contests and open mics and is a core head of various writing communities.
- Ms. Amarpreet Budhiraja ( Book Launch Guest ) – Published author and teacher by profession. She has received many awards for her writings and is involved in doing social service in the education sector.
Events:
🔸 Celebrity Author Speech by Piyush Goel
🔸Open Mic
🔸Content Writing Workshop
🔸Publisher’s Voice
🔸 Creative Writing Webinar
🔸Books Review
🔸Writers Interaction
🔸Book Launch
🔸Anthology Compiling – A Discussion (Q/A)
Events Timing:
Introduction – 2:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Celebrity Author Speech – 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Content Writing Workshop – 2:45 pm to 3:30 pm
Open Mic – 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Publisher’s Voice – 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Creative Writing Webinar – 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Books Review – 7:00 pm to 7.45 pm
Writers Interaction – 7:45 pm to 8:15 pm
Book Launch – 8:15 pm to 8:30 pm
Anthology Compiling Discussion – 8:30 to 9:00 pm
This LITSTIVAL, indeed was a successful one and got many positive response from guests and fellow writers.
Heartfully thanking every individual writer, who played a major role right from the beginning till end of this lit festival journey. Hope to see you all again in such upcoming virtual literary meets 💫