Country: Indonesia
Maria Pankratia serves as the Program Manager for the Petra Book Club and the Flores Writers Festival, and is the recipient of the 2022 Beyond Projects and Spaces scholarship by the Goethe-Institut Indonesien. She was an Emerging Writer at the Makassar International Writers Festival in 2017, and her article, KTP untuk Kaum Waria, Kenapa Tidak? won third place in the General Category of Gender Diversity Writing and Reporting Competition. Maria is part of Bacapetra.co; a platform that focuses on the development of literature and literacy in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
Selain menjadi Manajer Program Klub Buku Petra dan Flores Writers Festival, Maria Pankratia adalah penerima beasiswa Beyond Projects and Spaces 2022 oleh Goethe-Institut Indonesien serta Emerging Writer Makassar International Writers Festival 2017. Artikelnya, KTP untuk Kaum Waria, Kenapa Tidak? menjadi Juara III Kategori Umum Lomba Penulisan dan Liputan Keberagaman Gender. Ia merupakan bagian dari Bacapetra.co; platform yang fokus pada pengembangan sastra dan literasi di Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT).
Regional disparities in literary access have contributed to many eastern Indonesian stories and narratives remaining untold. Listen to writers and community activists Aprila RA Wayar, Felix K. Nesi, and Maria …
As we celebrate the growing rise in diverse stories and representation on bookshelves around the world, it remains important to acknowledge how far the literary industry has left to go. …