Toto Awards for English Creative Writing 2016: Long List

Twenty-three writers have been long-listed for the Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English 2016. They are, in no particular order:

1. Pramit Pratim Ghosh (Bengaluru)

2. Sohini Basak (Kolkata)  

3. Tushar Jain (Delhi) 

4. Hina Siddiqui (Pune) 

5. Shefali Elizabeth Mathew (Vellore) 

6. Srividya Tadepalli (Chennai)

7. Vijeta Kumar (Bengaluru) 

8. Krupa Ge (Chennai)

9. Kausambhi Majumdar (Navi Mumbai) 

10. Neil Julian Balthazar (Bengaluru) 

11. Trishna Senapathy (New Delhi) 

12. Aditya Mani Jha (Noida) 

13. Danish Shaikh (Bengaluru) 

14. Ramya Maddali (New Delhi) 

15. Ila Ananya (Bengaluru)

16. Kritika Pandey (Ranchi) 

17. Nicholas Rixon (Kolkata)

18. Rihan Najib (Bengaluru)  

19. Aritra Sengupta (Kolkata) 

20. Devanshu Mishra (Delhi) 

21. Bhupender K. Bhardwaj (Thane) 

22. Avinab Datta (Mumbai) 

23. Zui Kumar Reddy (Bengaluru)

TFA congratulates all the long-listed writers and wishes them best of luck! The shortlist will be announced in December.