About The Event
A workshop by acclaimed writers Jahnavi Barua and Shinie Antony on what makes good fiction.
What goes into making a story? Beginnings and endings, protagonist and antagonist, conflict and resolution, the art and the craft... Acclaimed writers Jahnavi Barua and Shinie Antony take everyone through writing, editing, and a lot, lot more in this workshop. Let`s have fun with the fundamentals of fiction.
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian writer based in Bangalore. Next Door (Penguin India, 2008), her debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her next, a novel called Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010), was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The third, Undertow, a novel, was published by Penguin Random House India (Viking Books) in February 2020. Her short fiction has been widely anthologized and her work is part of several university syllabi. Jahnavi studied medicine at university but is not a practising doctor. She was born in Guwahati and raised between Assam, Meghalaya, Delhi and Manchester.
Shinie Antony has authored short-story books The Orphanage For Words, Barefoot and Pregnant and novels When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, A Kingdom for his Love. She has compiled the anthologies Why We Don’t Talk and Boo. Her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2002. Shinie is also the director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival. The Girl Who Couldn’t Love is her latest novel.
