All workshops need prior registration and are on a first-come-first-served basis.
Though we welcome registrations for multiple workshops, multiple registrations for the same workshop will lead to your application being rejected.
Q & A with R & D: Ravinder Singh & Durjoy Datta on writing…
An interactive, intimate session where literary heartthrobs Ravinder and Durjoy answer all your questions. Tips, tricks, twists,tales, titillating tidbits and more…
Ravinder Singh
Bio
Considered as the King of Romance, Ravinder Singh is a well-known bestselling author from India. An ISB alumnus and an ex Sr. Prog Manager at Microsoft, Ravinder once realized it's more fun writing stories than computer programmes. Now a full time storyteller, he has sold more than 3.5 million copies of his novels. He also runs a publishing venture named Black Ink, where he publishes debut authors.
Durjoy Datta
Bio
Durjoy Datta is the author of nineteen bestselling romance novels. Born in New Delhi, he completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book, Of Course I Love You . . ., was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels-Till the Last Breath, Hold My Hand, When Only Love Remains, World’s Worst Best Boyfriend, The Girl of My Dreams, The Boy Who Loved, The Boy with a Broken Heart and The Perfect Us-have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India. Durjoy also has to his credit eleven television shows, for which he has written over 1000 episodes. For more updates, you can follow him on Instagram (www.instagram.com/durjoydatta).
How to write great Chillers and Thrillers with Zac O’Yeah
Interactive session during which Zac O’Yeah discusses the methods that writers use to create suspense and thrills, so that their novels become real page-turners. He also talks about what makes good writing good and why bad writing is usually always very boring writing, and how to hone one’s writing skills. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and join in the discussion. This popular workshop has been featured at Chennai’s Lit for Life, Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (thrice), Jaipur Literature Festival (twice), in Delhi at JNU, at Goa International Centre and other venues.
Zac O’Yeah
Bio
Swedish detective novelist and author of the MAJESTIC TRILOGY, which is set in his Indian hometown Bengaluru. Written 18 books including several fiction and nonfiction bestsellers. Travel writings have appeared in magazines such as National Geographic Traveller and Vagabond, and also featured in many anthologies. He has been translated into over 20 languages including German, French, Russian, Chinese and several Indian languages. His most recent book is DIGESTING INDIA. The MAJESTIC TRILOGY is being made into an Indian movie and a European film company is adapting his sci-fi novel Once Upon A Time in Scandinavistan as a big budget Hollywood production.
The Out of Print ‘Short Fiction Workshop’- with Indira Chandrashekar
On crafting short fiction:
– place your story
– reveal your story
– engage your reader
– short fiction, not reportage
And discuss some of the many pitfalls and difficulties writers face…
Indira Chandrasekhar
Bio
Indira Chandrasekhar is the founder and principal editor of Out of Print, an online magazine for short fiction connected to the Indian subcontinent. Her stories have appeared, among other places, in Cosmonauts Avenue, Far Enough East, rkvry, Eclectica and The Little Magazine, and won awards and been shortlisted, most notably in the Mslexia short story competitions. She is the co-editor of Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe, Thames River Press, 2012. Indira has a PhD in Biophysics and used to study the dynamics of biological membranes at research institutes in India, the United States and Switzerland. She convenes the Executive Council of the G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Mumbai.