HydRAW Events (Q1 2021)
Special events organized by HydRAW during the period January to March, 2021.
Interactive Novel — Jan/Feb/Ongoing:
HydRAW collaborated exclusively with Story Mirror in India’s first Interactive Novel contest designed to provide an opportunity to the readers to decide what course of action the characters of the story take and there is no better way to motivate, reaffirm and refresh themselves than by participating in this contest.
Interactive Novel is different from a traditional form of writing a novel and is based on an author’s imagination; and the plot is based on how the reader wants to choose the story flow of the novel. In the traditional format, the reader has no option but to follow the author’s journey. Wouldn’t it be nice if the reader can decide what course of action the characters of the story take? Keeping the readers choice, the interactive novel contest was designed, the first of its kind.
The first prompt was given on Feb 04,2021 and the submission period for Prompt 1 was from Feb 05, 2021, to Feb 11, 2021. This contest is still going on and for more details and participation you can visit the below link:
http://sm-s.in/Bq256hF
Book Launch -Moulting Days, Talk on Poetry and Open Mic
HydRAW along with Eka Publishers announced an essay competition on the book release of Monsoon Mischief by Haridas M.A. On Feb 14th we launched the collection of essays titled “Moulting Days” on a soldier’s life after uniform. The chief guest for the event was Dr. Prabhakarn Paleri, Director General (Retd.), Indian Coast Guard. It was an interesting session beginning with Mr. Paleri’s speech on love versus hate followed by the authors of the Moulting days sharing their experiences and about their essay/short story.
The next part of the event was a talk by Prof. Manu Mangattu on “Soul of Poetry and Poetry of Soul.” Professor Manu mesmerized the listeners with his beautiful and soulful talk on Poetry. The evening ended with an open mic poetry on the theme “Pandemic Love” where all of us celebrated our love for poetry.
Biryaniyat book launch — 14th Mar:
On 14th March 2021, “Biryaniyat” was launched by the Chief Guest Vinod Vithal, a journalist, writer, poet, columnist, media analyst and a social scientist. Mr. Vinod Vithal appreciated the efforts of HydRAW and applauded the works of the writers who contributed to this anthology. He also spoke on the importance of community welfare and community writing.
The anthology is edited by Lavanya Nukavarapu and is available on Amazon on the link below. Travelling through this anthology, readers get to explore many facets of life and experience of different cultures. As they say, shades of life — it is very well described in the bouquet of short stories present in this anthology. In this second anthology of HydRAW, each and every story has a unique touch and will be a pleasant reading experience for the readers.
https://www.amazon.in/Biryaniyat-HydRAW-Anthology-Readers-Writers-ebook/dp/B08YXQ7631/
