5th Fereshteh award announces call for entries

Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA - The 5th edition of Fereshteh Award, a short story writing and photo competition with the theme of “Road”, has announced call for entries. Considering the enthusiasm of the young in the field of short story writing and photos, Fereshteh Book City Complex in Tehran has decided to launch the fifth edition of this cultural arts event on the theme of 'Road', with the aim of discovering and introducing the brilliant talents and encouraging the culture of reading books and promoting the Persian language. In the short story writing section, the submitted works should be in the doc or docx format and the maximum number of words should be 3500 words. Also, the story of the participants should not have participated in any book or other media before. Each author will be able to send only one work to the Fereshteh Award Secretariat. In the photo section, the images should have 300 DPI size with jpg format. Each participant can send at least three photos to the Fereshteh Award Secretariat. In this section, the photos which have been submitted to another competitions or festivals; and even have won any prizes can also participate in this event. Applicants can fill out the submission form online at http://jayezefereshteh.org from Dec 22 to April 20, 2018. Sending the works to the Fereshteh Award Secretariat constitutes the assignment of the rights of these works to Fereshteh Book City Complex in Tehran. Prizes are as follows: 1-The jury's award for the first winner: Fereshteh Award trophy + plague of honor + free bonuses for purchasing books + cash prize 2-The jury's award for top 10 winners: Plague of honor + free bonuses for purchasing books. In a meantime, the works of 10 top winners in photo and short story writing section will be published in english and persian and a photo exhibition for displaying the top photos will also be held after the closing ceremony of the event. After a four-year experience, this year the Fereshteh Award will be held internationally. The closing ceremony will be held in the third month of the year, Khordad (May 22-June 21). 9376**2050 Follow us on Twitter @IrnaEnglish