“Destiny is not a matter of chance but choice, is the saying. But, sometimes destiny is a chance, an opportunity, and what we make of it shapes our life. LitMart @ BLF 2014 gave me that opportunity- to present my story idea to a panel of commissioning editors & lit agents. As I await the release of my debut novel in 2016 with HarperCollins, I thank LitMart for giving me that chance. . .”
“Sometimes a tiny nudge can cascade your waiting destiny into unfolding in front of you. A nudge that in its most characteristic duplicity stays hidden. I can’t thank LitMart enough for providing me with that much needed nudge that has launched my life as a writer into being.”
List of finalists
Qualified
- Saisudha Acharya
- Anand Udupa
- Siddharth Murlidharan
- Suraj L
- Uttiya Bhattacharya
- Sudhir
- D Sushant
- Elizabeth Bowden-David
- Subhashri C V
- Arindam Sengupta
- Chethana Ramesh
- V Vijai Balaji
- VIjay Siddharth
- Archana Sarat
- Sindhu Venugopal-Roy
Waitlisted
- Sachithananda Bhat G
- Melanie
- Ramkumar
- Rituparna Maji
- Asad Ali Junaid
- Yashashree Kamat
- Shirin Laturkar
- Tareque Laskar
- Nithyau Ramkumar
- Srividya Srinivasan
Panel of judges
Aanchal Malhotra
Bio
Aanchal Malhotra is a Delhi-based oral historian and the author of two critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Remnants of A Separation, and In the Language of Remembering, and the novel, The Book of Everlasting Things. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent.
Jayapriya Vasudevan
Bio
Jayapriya Vasudevan is an agent and the founder of Jacaranda Literary Agency. Jacaranda was founded in India in 1997, and now runs out of Singapore with agents in Singapore, UK, and India. She currently lives in Bangalore with her family. Her list focuses on gender and women writers, language, and inclusivity.
Rashmi Menon
Bio
Rashmi Menon is Executive Editor at HarperCollins India. She has been a part of the publishing industry for more than fifteen years, commissioning and editing many bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction. Rashmi loves acquiring books that are both timely and timeless. When reading too many manuscripts makes her go cross-eyed, she switches to audiobooks in her non-stop quest to decode bestsellers.
LitMart Grand Finale
Dec 6 2015 (Sunday), 3.30 PM – 5.30 PM at Seasons Hall, Hotel Royal Orchid