The true story of how my mobile phone turned my novel into a love story in prose poetry

The length of the line that can fit on a mobile phone screen had everything to do with it.

Gayathri Prabhu

· Feb 13, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Why the profusion of courses in India will not over-professionalise the practice of creative writing

The final part of a three-part series on the beginnings and the development of creative writing as a formal discipline in India.

Saikat Majumdar

· Sep 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How to build a creative writing programme as part of academic courses at an Indian university

The second in a three-part series on the beginnings and the development of creative writing as a formal discipline in India.

Saikat Majumdar

· Sep 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Can creative writing be taught in universities? Is it not in conflict with academic rigour?

The first of a three-part series on the beginnings and the development of creative writing as a formal discipline in India.

Saikat Majumdar

· Aug 30, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Many writers say they can actually hear their characters speak. Can they be right, after all?

Research shows that most of us hear voices in our heads. In the case of novelists, these are the voices of their characters.

John Foxwell, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How a writing programme in Iowa taught me to feel for people (and learn to become a better writer)

A university student from India has a life-changing experience meeting her counterparts from Pakistan in the US.

Payal Nagpal

· Sep 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Finding your book: Vikram Chandra on the exhilarating yet excruciating journey of the novelist

‘As you begin, you know very little about what the book is. But the thoughts and visions persist...’

Vikram Chandra

· Aug 17, 2019 · 07:30 am

This novel proves that the omniscient narrator is making a comeback to contemporary fiction

The Australian author’s choice isn’t just literary, but also a philosophical and ethical one.

Julienne van Loon, The Conversation

· Jun 24, 2019 · 07:30 am

How to be a millennial and write a novel centred around a romance in the India of the 1970s

With love in the age of Tinder being the contemporary experience, the author of ‘Once Upon A Curfew’ had to fall back on family stories and films.

Srishti Chaudhary

· Jun 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

Can the first page make or break a novelist’s career? An editor answers

An interview with David Ebershoff on the value (and pitfalls) of the opening page of the novel you are writing.

Pooja Bhula

· Dec 09, 2018 · 07:00 am

Why writers should eavesdrop constantly if they want to better their craft

Listening in unashamedly on other people’s conversations is one of the best ways to write good dialogue.

Sayantani Dasgupta

· Nov 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

I’m talking to you: Are second-person narratives in literature effective?

Have you ever read a novel in the second person? You probably found it strange.

James Peacock, The Conversation

· Oct 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm