Toto Awards 2018 for Creative Writing (English): Long-list

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

1. Purvai Aranya (Panchkula, Haryana) 

2. Gaurav Deka (New Delhi) 

3. Urvashi Bahuguna (Gurgaon)

4. Sourabha Rao (Bengaluru) 

5. Salik Shah (New Delhi) 

6. Akshat Jain (Jaipur) 

7. Rebecca Vedavathy (Bengaluru) 

8. Devanshu Misra (New Delhi)

9. Aekta Khubchandani (Mumbai) 

10. Shikha Gupta (Bengaluru) 

11. Kanak Rajadhyaksha (Mumbai) 

12. Maya Palit (Bengaluru) 

13. Shreya Ila Anasuya (Kolkata) 

14. Poorna Swami (Bengaluru) 

15. Kamayani Sharma (Dehradun)

16. H.B. Kiruba (Bengaluru) 

17. Ila Ananya (Hyderabad)

18. Vijeta Kumar (Bengaluru)

19. Somendra Singh Kharola (Bengaluru)

20. Anirban Nanda (East Midnapore, West Bengal)

TFA congratulates the long-listed applicants and wishes them all the best!