{"id":708,"date":"2013-04-12T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2013-04-12T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T11:03:52","slug":"dwl-launches-dastaan-award-for-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/dwl-launches-dastaan-award-for-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL launches Dastaan Award for writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiwriterslounge.net\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Desi Writers Lounge<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> is proud to announce its first monetary prize for writers.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Dastaan Award<\/strong>, worth <strong>50,000 Pakistani Rupees<\/strong>, will be given to one\u00a0of the three winners of DWL&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiwriterslounge.net\/papercuts\/contests\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">annual short story competition<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0The title of the award pays homage to the South Asian tradition of the <em>dastaan<\/em>, which is synonymous with inspirational, world-class storytelling.\u00a0The prize is open to writers from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>DWL will celebrate its seventh anniversary in 2013. Founded as a community to nurture writing talent from South Asia, it has painstakingly built up a fraternity of budding writers and created an online\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiwriterslounge.net\/papercuts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">magazine<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> to showcase new talent. The Dastaan Award is the first in an envisaged array of incentives for new writers that will be offered by DWL.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Dastaan Award, please visit <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiwriterslounge.net\/papercuts\/contests\/dastaan-award\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\">the award page<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> on the Papercuts website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desi Writers Lounge is proud to announce its first monetary prize for writers. The Dastaan Award, worth 50,000 Pakistani Rupees, will be given to one\u00a0of the three winners of DWL&#8217;s\u00a0annual short story competition.\u00a0The title of the award pays homage to the South Asian tradition of the dastaan, which is synonymous with inspirational, world-class storytelling.\u00a0The prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}