Sulekha and Penguin Books team up to bring unique contest for bloggers in India
Sulekha and Penguin Books India, have joined hands to promote a concept that has been tested successfully overseas. They are jointly promoting a blogging contest and initiative, called BlogPrint on Sulekha.com blog area - whereby bloggers will have a chance to get their blog entries published in a book. The contest will run for 6 months, starting 10th August 2007. Every week, thereon Sulekha will award a cash prize of Rs 10,000 to two best blogging entries. Thus, a total of Rs 5.20 Lakhs will be given away as cash prize over the 6 month period. Out of the total 52 winning entries - 25 will be short listed by various literary people, to be published in a book released on 1st July 2008. The idea behind the initiative and contest is to foster growth and talent of amateur writers in India, said CEO of Sulekha - Satya Prabhakar.
— Vishal L Filed under: Blogging
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