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Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

19 October 201919 December 2019guest
‘Imagine building an observatory over St. Paul’s Cathedral?’  A provocative question posed by Amitav Ghosh at the National Book Festival, in D.C. Ghosh was replying [...]

Becoming a Writer – what I learnt

19 October 201924 April 2020guest
I was lucky enough to be on the The Asian Writer’s ‘Becoming a writer’ course early last year, at a time when I [...]

Shreya Sen-Handley on writing Strange

19 October 20198 February 2021guest
Toni Morrison said that if the book you want to read isn’t out there, write it yourself. So I did. I wrote it [...]

My intentions as a poet: what I learnt from my poetry mentor

13 July 201925 November 2019guest
Last October, I attended the Asian Writer’s Festival for the second year running. A uniquely nurturing space, I particularly loved hearing wonderful poets [...]

Review: JLF Belfast 2019

13 July 20198 February 2021guest
In 2011 I had travelled to Jaipur Literary Festival, THE JLF in Jaipur. It was a gigantic affair with all the glamour that [...]

How writers can maximise their income

25 June 201922 July 2020Farhana Shaikh
The full report into Authors Earnings published last month highlights that conditions for working writers is deteriorating. The study, commissioned by ALCS, and [...]

Amita Murray

21 June 20198 March 2020Farhana Shaikh
In my debut novel The Trouble with Rose, Rilla Kumar ditches her fiancé Simon Langton at the altar to ask her Great Indian [...]

Mona Dash

21 June 20198 February 2021Farhana Shaikh
When did you know you had a story in you that you wanted to share? Many years ago, when my baby boy became [...]

Hanif Kureishi’s film My Beautiful Laundrette to be made into play

28 April 201928 April 2019Farhana Shaikh
Curve, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse are joining forces to co-produce a new stage production of Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette. This bold new [...]

Asian writers shortlisted in Saboteur Awards

28 April 20198 March 2020Farhana Shaikh
Talented Asian writers have been shortlisted in this year’s Saboteur Awards. Short story writer, Susmita Bhattacharya has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Short [...]

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