The Motivational Strips Global Administration announced a new category of poetry contest called ‘Be A Star Literary Contest’, where the poets across the world would participate and render their written poems through video recordings. The founder of Motivational Strips, Shiju H. Pallithazheth appointed popular Malaysian Author Lilian Woo as the contest chair, along with a cross geographic jury board comprising of Author Barbara Ehrentreu from USA, Ewelina Maria Bugajska-Javorka from Denmark, Corina Junghiatu from Romania and Sonia Batra from India.
The forum Administration member Sreekala P Vijayan would be taking over media coordination affairs as well be the spokesperson for the entire contest. Motivational Strips is the world’s most active writers forum with the presence of poets and writers from across 197 countries. The monthly visitors to its online page crossed 7 million. The founder of Motivational Strip stated, “Be A Star Literary contest is an attempt to create awareness of poetry reading which needs intonation and emotional inclinations while being rendered. He added that this contest would help the readers to know the varied forms of delivery across the world”