“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.”
LitMart Grand Finale: Dec 6 2015 (Sunday), 3.30 PM – 5.30 PM at Seasons Hall, Hotel Royal Orchid
After the immense success of LitMart last year, for the second year running the Bangalore Literature Festival brings to you the exclusive forum where aspiring authors get a chance to make three-minute pitches of their book idea to literary agents, commissioning editors and publishers.
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
Third generation of the Bahrisons Booksellers family, Aanchal Malhotra currently works as a Literary Agent with Red Ink Literary Agency, New Delhi. She is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Delhi. Her seminal work, ‘Remnants of a Separation’ is an alternative history of the Partition of India through material memory- a study into the objects refugees took with them when they left homes on either side of the border in 1947.
Jayapriya Vasudevan
Bio
Jayapriya Vasudevan is Managing Partner of Books@Jacaranda Literary Agency, which works out of Singapore, India and The Philippines.
Rashmi Menon
Bio
Rashmi Menon has been a part of the Indian publishing industry for nearly a decade. She is currently the commissioning editor at Amaryllis. She enjoys helping new authors develop a book idea to really make it their own, gets a kick from seeing her projects realised in print.
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