Early in Aliyyah Eniath’s debut novel The Yard, we come across “callaloo”, a quintessentially Trinidadian word, which for me is the summation of both the stylistic and narrative choices employed in this debut work of fiction. Callaloo, being a Caribbean creole word for a soup or stew made with
As we prepare to announce the submission guidelines for our upcoming New Writing anthology---you can buy the latest edition of the anthology here---we thought it'd be a good idea to follow up our earlier list of places to submit creative writing in India and South Asia with more
Aditi Angiras is a Delhi poet and activist who believes that poetry is politics. She founded a spoken word poetry collective called Bring Back the Poets that engages with gender, sexuality, and politics in the city and the country. In March this year, Bring Back the Poets organised an international
Revathy V K is a multifaceted artist whose journeys into photography and writing have intertwined seamlessly. Last year, she showcased her series of photographs that captured a poignant tale of two Indian women falling out of love at 'Homomorphism', a group exhibition on queer art at Durbar Hall
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume Five. Photograph by Aamir Rangwalla. Helter Skelter Magazine's New Writing section was started in 2012 as a way to promote emerging writers and poets in India; to create a space for original, fresh short fiction and poetry.The first four
One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator is a collection of stories by Manoj Kumar Panda centred around death, translated from Odia to English by Snehaprava Das. One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator by Manoj Kumar Panda (Purchase) In her translator's note, Das makes note of Panda's
In a constantly evolving independent scene, Raxit Tewari is somewhat of an indie veteran, though his young age will have you believe otherwise. From metal band Medusa that later metamorphosed into alternative indie act Sky Rabbit, to his solo electronica project Your Chin, he has skirted through genres with the
Sumana Roy is a writer whose poems and short stories have appeared in Granta, Berfrois, Poetry at Sangam, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Prairie Schooner, Asia Writes, Pratilipi, and elsewhere. Her essays include everything from a celebration of rhododendrons in the hills to an analysis of why the popular Dum
Sameer Kulavoor is a magpie. Obviously I don't mean that he goes about engaging in light-fingered behaviour, but that he has qualities similar to the bird's proverbial sharp eye---whether it is isolating the little details of human gestures in his latest exhibition Please Have A Seat
Kuzhali Manickavel lived in Winnipeg, Canada, until she was thirteen, after which she moved to India. Her first book, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, was published by Blaft Publications in 2008. The Guardian describes the stories in this collection as "weird,
The inevitability of any powerful tale is that, given enough repetition, it will quietly fold itself under the surface of our lives; waiting to see whether we recognise the familiar patterns, as we unwittingly take our own places in the story, compelled to play it out till the end. The
Can something be animated, yet unchanging? The paradox may seem whimsical---rhetorical even---but for Richard Linklater, it has been a substantial cinematic motif. The filmmaker has never orchestrated sudden growth for the sake of voyeurism, instead taking 20 years to give us this century’s most full-fledged romance in the Before