As part of the 2026 Doek Literary Festival’s collaboration with Bank Windhoek to raise awareness for the Cancer Apple Project, festival attendants are invited to bite into a good story and find references to apples in any of the works produced by this year’s writers, poets, and visual artists.

Here is how it works:

1. Read as many of the festival guests’ works and find any reference to an apple.
2. Explain the reference as fully as possible.
3. Stand a chance to win a special mystery prize courtesy of Bank Windhoek and the Doek Literary Festival.
4.  The competition form can be completed and accessed using the following link: Bite Into A Good Story.

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The winner of the Bite Into A Good Story competition was Xavierie Mbangtang, one of the festival’s moderators, who identified the apple reference in Ayesha Harruna Attah’s Zainab Takes New York and explained the connection to the “Big Apple” in superlative language and style