This is the website where people from all walks of life gather under the interest in literature. It is the place to show our works and wait for comments from fellow members. It is the place where we can discuss about hottest issues in Indonesian literature. It is also the place where we get news about book launches, literary contests, and so on.
Today, with its 1,300 something members, we can find bunches of poems everyday, lots of short stories in a week, tons of literary reviews monthly.
The good news is, members don’t stop here. Sometimes, whenever necessary, they go on their discussions in Yahoo Messenger chatrooms, personal correspondence. Still further, they meet “outside the internet” annually to celebrate the anniversary of this group, once in a while when certain members launch their books, or sometimes they suddenly have small meetings when a certain member visit a town in which some members of the group live.
The very good news is, quite different from other groups, some of the members of this groups are famous writers who have published best selling novels, senior writers who have received literary awards at national level, prolific young writers whose works have been translated into languages other than Indonesian.
Well, this is it: apresiasi-sastra@yahoogroups.com. This is the group where I get the most courage to express my thoughts–well, not a thought actually, just my intellectual mumblings, hehehe…. Yeah, this is it. The greatest internet mailing list I’ve ever been involved. Wanna join it? Just go to http://groups.yahoo.com/apresiasi-sastra and have a nice time discussing about literature and displaying your literature.
