Preetha Vasan - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 2
12:00 pm
Malgudi (Lalit Gardens)

The Chronicles of the Crimson One

Preeta Vasan with Aparna Jaishankar (10y+)

Bio

Preetha Vasan is a Bangalore based writer who found her creative side during the lockdown leading her to move away from years of academic writing to fiction and its many possibilities.
Since then her stories have been published in many anthologies ,both digital and paperback. Tell Me Your Story awarded her stories ‘Aditi’, and " Last Night I dreamt of Manderley..", submitted for their anthologies The Mask and The Homemaker, the best idea and best short story awards . Her short story""The Lac Palace”, flash fiction "The Memory", and the microfiction " Blood" won in the 2021 Wordweavers Escribe writing competitions. It is published on Wordweavers 2021 website. Her short story “ How to write a Page Turner”, published by Hydraw publishers in the anthology Deviance, won the best short story award in June 2022.
You can also find her other winners on online portals like Meanpeppervine Pratilipi and Penmancy. Her Y.A. Mythological Fantasy novella titled The Chronicles of the Crimson One was published in June 2022.
A doctorate in literature , she teaches at a premier women's college in Bangalore.