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SOUTH ASIA LITERARY MENTORSHIP ALERT I'm delighted to announce a mentorship project for early career South Asian writers. https://soniafaleiro.wixsite.com/southasiaspeaks
The mentorship will start in January 2021 & last twelve months. Our 18 wonderful mentors will help 18 writers polish a major project, which can be a book of fiction or non-fiction, a translated work or a series of reported pieces.
Mentors will review writing, listen to concerns & help problem solve. They can assist in story framing, building narrative structure, working on character development & much more. The mentorship will take place over Zoom, so writers anywhere in South Asia are welcome to apply.
The application deadline is December 10, 2020. There is no age restriction & no application fee. Please apply here: https://soniafaleiro.wixsite.com/southasiaspeaks
And now to our wonderful mentors, all of whom are volunteering their time. Our 2021 fiction mentors are Prayaag Akbar ( @unessentialist), Fatima Bhutto ( @fbhutto), Aruni Kashyap ( @AruniKashyap), Nikita Lalwani, Altaf Tyrewala ( @AltafTyrewala), Mirza Waheed ( @MirzaWaheed) ...
Our 2021 mentors for non-fiction and reportage are: Rahul Bhatia ( @rahulabhatia), Sonia Faleiro ( @soniafaleiro), Marc Herman ( @Marc_Herman_ ), McKenzie Funk ( @McKenzieFunk), Samar Halarnkar ( @samar11), Sanam Maher ( @SanamMKhi) ...
Mira Kamdar ( @mirakamdar) and Samanth Subramanian ( @Samanth_S).
Many of us didn’t have access to the early career building blocks that guide a writer, and help build contacts and break into publishing. These include journalism schools, creative writing workshops and internship programs. We worked our way through with trial & error. 1/2
For those of us in South Asia, far away from the publishing worlds of New York & London, the challenges appeared particularly steep. The mentorship program is our attempt to make the learning curve a little less stressful and as productive as possible for early career writers.
We are interested in helping writers who haven't had the opportunity to workshop their writing in more traditional settings. We are therefore unable to accept anyone who has attended a journalism, writing or literary internship program outside South Asia.
However, if you are eligible & interested do *please* apply, we would *love* to help you.
