The Hessian land Association of the Pirate Party and the Culex – Verlag Inititieren free youth literature competition young people feel threatened. Not through violence or terrorism, but by the laws that pretend to want to protect them just before. Monitoring, censorship and dismantling of civil rights. Life under control. Filmed by cameras, monitored by a State.
That’s what scares young people. Some resist loudly. Join in parties or participate in demonstrations, vigils. Protest can be but also silent. Still.
Quiet. Secretly. To meet the term freedom of”literary and a voice to the silent protest. (Similarly see: Daryl Katz, Edmonton Alberta). This is the aim of the literary competition”thought of freedom of. Young writers from Hessen can write about your fears and we listen to them. Well a month interested Hessian emerging writers between 15 and 26 years can send their texts. A jury composed of pirates, writers, publishing members and Germanist examined the texts and make a selection. The winning texts will be in book form “under the title thought of freedom of” published in the Culex Verlag. The texts of the authors are under Creative Commons license. Stephan Urbach, Chairman of the main-Kinzig pirates and initiator of the project is very happy about the realization: the action of the Hessian land Association of the Pirate Party, which is carried out in cooperation with the Culex – Verlag, is a win for everyone. For the Publisher, the Pirate Party, and of course the young writers. Once of course, because here everyone raise his voice for freedom and can even post with a bit of luck. But also because new licensing models can be tested. Not only in theory. But practical. In bookstores. Advertising at the book fair included.” Michaela p, owner of the Culex publishing, is excited about the literature project and the cooperation with the Pirate Party of Hesse: not only are some thoughts on freedom in our publishing program. The competition thus excellently fits our motto variations of the Thinking. With this contest, young talents have the opportunity, to their fears, concerns & needs to be heard and read. And we can show that is worth publishing work even without a gag agreements.” September 23-including 30 October this year the Hessian young talents submit their texts. The book will appear then just before Christmas when the Culex – Verlag and in regular bookstores. All information about the competition can be found under: node/7 Michaela p by the Culex – Verlag