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Category Archives: Guest Post
Priya Doraswamy on Publishing a Book in India
Priya Doraswamy founded Lotus Lane Literary in New Jersey in May, 2013. She has been an agent for a little over five years and has sold books globally. Priya represents bestselling and award winning adult fiction and non-fiction authors. Prior … Continue reading
Lavanya Sankaran’s advice to aspiring writers
Lavanya Sankaran is the author of the celebrated short story collection The Red Carpet, which spent two years on the best-seller lists and collected praise world-wide. Her debut novel The Hope Factory, just released, has been selected by Amazon UK … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangalore Writers Workshop, BWW, Inspiration, Lavanya Sankaran, Writing Craft, Writing process
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Ashok Rajagopalan on Finding my voice while writing stories for children
There is a simple logic behind writing well. It evolves from two premises that I, well, evolved. Premise 1: Art is something that moves you. If it doesn’t move you, personally it doesn’t mean Art to you. Premise 2: A … Continue reading
Revathi Suresh on Young Adult Fiction in India
Revathi Suresh worked with EastWest Books, Chennai, and helped edit, along with a senior colleague, a book review magazine called Indian Review of Books. EWB also had an imprint called Manas which brought out both fiction and non-fiction. She has … Continue reading
Shikha Malaviya on Geography of Tongues
Poet Shikha Malaviya, considers herself a morpher. She was born in the U.K. but grew up in the US and India. Raised in a family where books, good food, music, art and candid conversations always took center stage, it is … Continue reading
Shom Biswas on Getting Published
To start with, I am in no position to advise you on writing. I am a decent writer, but so are you. But the last month has been glorious in terms of getting published. I have got published or accepted … Continue reading
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Tagged BWW, Online Publishing, Out of Print, QLRS, Reading Hour, Shom Biswas, Spark, The New Yorker
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Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis and poetry
I met Jeet Thayil on a wonderfully nippy, December evening in Bangalore. I had read Narcopolis a month back and was desperately hoping he would win the Booker because it had been long since a book had thrilled me so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangalore Writers Workshop, Bhumika Anand, BWW, Fiction, Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis, Poetry Workshop, These Errors Are Correct
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Annie Zaidi on How to begin
Very often, when I lead workshops or sit on panels featuring writers, young people will ask this question: Where do you start? Sometimes this is also phrased as: How do you get ideas? This question, I must confess, always leaves … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Zaidi, Bangalore Writers Workshop, BWW, Writing, Writing Craft, Writing process
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Shashi Deshpande to aspiring writers
When I speak of the art and the craft of writing, I take it for granted that: You have the talent. That you have an urge, a strong urge, to say something and that this is what drives you into writing. That you … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangalore Writers Workshop, Shashi Deshpande, Writing Craft, Writing process
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Nick Johnson on ‘What do you do when you leave the workshop?’
Workshops, no matter how professional or laid-back they may be, are difficult. Everyone hopes that they will walk through the door into a room of peers and present them with something they will be astounded by; something that they will … Continue reading
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Tagged BWW, Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, Nick Johnson, Workshops, Writing, Writing Craft, Writing process
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