The Toto-Sangam Residency Fellowship 2021: Call for Applications

 THE TOTO-SANGAM RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIP 2021

Toto Funds the Arts, in partnership with Sangam House, is delighted to announce a two-week residency fellowship for writers at Sangam House. 

The fellowship will cover board and lodge for a two-week period at the Sangam House International Writers' Residency located at The Jamun in Bangalore. (For more information about Sangam House, please visit www.sangamhouse.org) 

The fellowship is open to anyone who has either won or been longlisted for the TOTO Creative Writing Awards over the last five years, i.e., from 2017 onwards. 

Please note that this fellowship does not include a stipend or cover costs of transport/travel to and from Sangam House. 

Applications from the following genres of writing are welcome: poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. 

Your application must include: 

- a one-page statement describing what you intend to work on while at Sangam House 

- a recent writing sample of not more than 5,000 words. 

Applications should reach Sarita Vellani at sarita.tfaindia@gmail.com no later than 8 August 2021. 

If you have any questions, please write to the email address provided or call +919880623357. 

This Sangam House session will run from 1 November to 31 December 2021. Please do not apply if you are not available during that time. The exact dates of the two-week slot will be decided by early September 2021. The name of the recipient of the fellowship –– to be determined by Sangam House –– will be announced at the end of September 2021 by the latest. 

All applications must be sent by email with a covering note (which mentions your date of birth, your current occupation, your phone number and your postal address) and two attachments, one each for your statement of purpose and your writing sample. The covering note should also mention the year in which you were longlisted or shortlisted for, or won the TOTO Award for Creative Writing in English.

Note: If you have been awarded a residency at Sangam House since 2016, you are not eligible to apply this year. 

Note from Sangam House:

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS

Please be assured that Sangam House and The Jamun are already working on sanitisation and person to person contact protocols to be enforced during the residency. Our decisions for the moment are that social distancing will be maintained, that all residents will bring a pair of house slippers and leave other footwear outside the house and that bags and other travel items will be wiped down before entering the living space. All food will be prepared at The Jamun, our housekeeper/manager who lives on the premises, and our daily cleaning person will both be wearing masks and gloves at work and bed and bath linens will be changed on an accelerated schedule. We are monitoring the situation daily and will change our health and safety measures accordingly. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation. 

An Evening With Perumal Murugan

Toto Funds the Arts

and

British Council Library, Bangalore

are delighted to invite you to

An evening with the celebrated Tamil writer

Perumal Murugan

in the company of his translator

N Kalyan Raman

to mark the publication of Kalyan Raman’s translation of Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat 

Vijeta Kumar, who will be in conversation with the author and translator, will introduce the range of Perumal Murugan's literary works and the highs and lows of his writing career

Sharanya Ramprakash, actor, director and playwright, 

will read excerpts from the novel

Date: Saturday, 7 April 2018.  Time: 6.30 p.m.

Venue: British Council Library, Prestige Takt, 23, Kasturba Road Cross (Opposite Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum)

ENTRY IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

PERUMAL MURUGAN heads the department of Tamil literature in a government college in Attur, Tamil Nadu. He is the author of ten novels and five collections each of short stories and poems, as well as ten books of non-fiction. Several of his novels, stories and poems have been translated into English, including Seasons of the Palm, which was short-listed for the Kiriyama Prize, Current Show, One Part Woman, Pyre and Poonachi, or The Story of a Black Goat. The first collection of Murugan's stories in English translation, The Goat Thief, was published last year. He has also written a memoir, Nizhal Mutrathu Ninaivugal.

N KALYAN RAMAN is a Chennai-based translator of Tamil fiction and poetry into English. His translations of 11 works of Tamil fiction and over 200 poems by leading Tamil poets have been published in journals and anthologies in India and abroad. He is a regular contributor of essays, articles and book reviews to journals and newspapers in India. In 2017, he received the prestigious Pudumaipithan award, given by Vilakku, for his contribution to Tamil literature through his translations.

VIJETA KUMAR, who was shortlisted for the TOTO Award for Creative Writing in English in 2018, teaches English and Journalism at St Joseph’s College, Bangalore.

Celebrating Jane Austen: Readings and Discussions

Toto Funds the Arts & The British Council Library

are pleased to invite you to

“The Sensibility of Jane Austen”

Marking the 200^th death anniversary of the Mistress of Irony

Date and Time:  Saturday, 22 July 2017, 6.30 p.m.

Venue:  The British Council Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross (Opposite Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum), Bangalore

Readings of excerpts from her novels

 by the actors Lekha Naidu and Nakul Bhalla

&

A panel discussion between Cheriyan Alexander and Poorna Swami

moderated by C.K. Meena

Unpacking the life and times of this much-loved writer, her panoply of characters, and the continuing relevance of her work to our part of the world.

Dr Cheriyan Alexander, who has been teaching English at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore for over three decades, is currently Head of the Department of English at SJC. 

Poorna Swami is a writer and dancer who has been Editor-at-Large of the online literary quarterly Asymptote since 2015.

C.K. Meena, novelist/journalist, wishes that Austen’s novels and other unabridged classics weren’t foisted on her during her adolescence because they make so much more sense when read at a later age.

TOTO Awards Function: January 23, 2016

The wait is almost over!

The winners of the TOTO 2016 for Music, Writing in English and Kannada, Photography, Short Film will be announced on 23rd January, 2016 at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore at 6:30 p.m.

Excerpts of the work of all the shortlisted applicants will be showcased at the event.

A warm welcome to all.

Poetry and Fiction: Sampurna Chattarji and Zenisha Gonsalves

Toto Funds the Arts

in association with

Atta Galatta

is pleased to invite you to 

An evening with Space Gulliver and her alter ego Sampurna Chattarji 

while Zenisha Gonsalves serves a slice of hostel life on the side

Date and Time:  Friday, 3 July 2015, 6.30 p.m.

Venue:  Atta Galatta, 134, KHB Colony, 5th Block, Koramangala (Next to Jyoti Nivas College)

Join Sampurna Chattarji as she “careen[s] through varied terrain, geographic and linguistic, in a dizzy journey of defamiliarization” in the company of her “alien protagonist”, featured in her latest book of poetry from HarperCollins: Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an alien. And Zenisha Gonsalves reading her short story ‘I mean, I tell you’. 

SAMPURNA CHATTARJI is a poet, novelist, translator and children’s author. Her fourteen books include five poetry titles, two novels, and a short-story collection. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies. Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology of women’s writing. Her poetry has been translated into 15 languages including Estonian, Frisian and Bambaiyya; and her children’s fiction into Welsh and Icelandic. Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2014), her translation of the Bengali poet Joy Goswami’s work, was shortlisted for the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry.

ZENISHA GONSALVES grew up in Goa. She's doing her BA in English Literature and Journalism at St Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Bangalore. She has written for The Ladies Finger, Yahoo! Originals, and The Seattle Globalist. She was shortlisted for the Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2015.

Praise for Space Gulliver

‘Boldly playful, ingenious, associative and mercurial….Here is a book that blends intellectual enquiry, a taste for whimsy and a love of language into challenging and audacious poetry.’

– ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, Poet and editor

 ‘The work is a joy to read….What worked was precisely the way the poet kept working the line and the voice, so that with each poem new resources emerged…. Something quite remarkable starts to happen at some point in this sequence so that by the end the reader – this reader anyway – is fully enfolded in Space Gulliver’s world.’

– DAVID HERD, Poet and professor of Modern Literature, University         of Kent

Toto Award for Creative Writing (Kannada) 2016: Call for Entries

ಟೊಟೊ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರ 2016

ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ

ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಲು ಆಹ್ವಾನ

ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಯುವ ಬರಹಗಾರರಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತೇಜನ ನೀಡುವ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತವಾದ ಟೊಟೊ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರವು ಕಳೆದ ನಾಲ್ಕು ವರ್ಷದಿಂದ ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೂ ವಿಸ್ತಾರಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಈ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಟೊಟೊ ಫಂಡ್ಸ್ ದಿ ಆರ್ಟ್ಸ್ (Toto Funds the Arts TFA) ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಯುವ ಬರಹಗಾರರಿಗೆ ಮೀಸಲಾದ 2016 ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನ ಟೊಟೊ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಟೊಟೊ ಫಂಡ್ಸ್ ದಿ ಆರ್ಟ್ಸ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸುವವರು 18 ರಿಂದ 29 ವರ್ಷ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನವರಾಗಿರಬೇಕು. ಅಂದರೆ, ನೀವು ೧ ಜನವರಿ 1986 ರ ನಂತರ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದವರಾಗಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಲು ಅರ್ಹರು. ಕಥೆ, ಕವಿತೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಟಕ ಈ ಮೂರರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಕಾರದಲ್ಲಿಯಾದರೂ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಿಂದ ಒಬ್ಬರನ್ನು ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಈ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಬರಹಗಾರರ ಸಮಿತಿಯು ಮಾಡಲಿದೆ. ಪುರಸ್ಕೃತರು 30,000 ರೂಪಾಯಿಗಳ ನಗದು ಬಹುಮಾನವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವರು.

ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಲು ಕೊನೆಯ ದಿನಾಂಕ:  18 ಅಗಸ್ಟ್ 2015

ಈ ಕೊನೆಯ ದಿನಾಂಕದ ನಂತರ ಬಂದ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಭಾರತೀಯ ನಾಗರಿಕರು ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು.  

ಪ್ರತಿ ಪ್ರವೇಶವು 7500 ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನು ಮೀರಬಾರದು. ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸುವವರು 6 ರಿಂದ 10 ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸುವವರು ಒಂದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು - ಆದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕತೆಗಳೂ ಸೇರಿ 7500 ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನು ಮೀರಬಾರದು. ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲ ಮೂರು ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಪ್ರಕಾರಕ್ಕೂ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕವಾದ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲ ಮೂರೂ ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರವೇಶವಾಗಿಯೂ, ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಎರಡನೆಯ ಪ್ರವೇಶವಾಗಿಯೂ, ನಾಟಕವನ್ನು ಮೂರನೆಯ ಪ್ರವೇಶವಾಗಿಯೂ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಪ್ರವೇಶದ ಮಿತಿ 7500 ಶಬ್ದಗಳು.

ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಪುಸ್ತಕರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಕೃತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಕಳಿಸುವಂತಿಲ್ಲ. ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಬಿಡಿ ಕಥೆ, ಕವಿತೆ, ನಾಟಕಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಬಹುದು. 

ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುವ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪ್ರವೇಶದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ದಿನಾಂಕ, ಕೃತಿಯು ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಪ್ರಕಟನೆಯ ವಿವರಗಳನ್ನು ನಮೂದಿಸಿ, ಇದು ನಿಮ್ಮದೇ ಸ್ವಂತ ಸೃಜನಶೀಲ ಕೃತಿಯೆಂಬುದನ್ನು ದೃಢೀಕರಿಸಿದ ಲಿಖಿತ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಲಗತ್ತಿಸಬೇಕು. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅಂಚೆಯ ವಿಳಾಸ, ಈಮೇಲ್ ವಿಳಾಸ, ಫೋನ್ ನಂಬರುಗಳು (ಚರ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಥಿರ ದೂರವಾಣಿ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಗಳು) ಹಾಗೂ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವವಿವರಗಳುಳ್ಳ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಬಯೋಡಾಟಾ ಕೂಡ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ ಹಾಳೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಬರೆದು ಕಳಿಸಿ. 

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಸಾದಾ ಅಂಚೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಅಥವಾ ಕುರಿಯರ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಈ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿರುವ ವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳಿಸಿ. ರಿಜಿಸ್ಟರ್ಡ್ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಅಥವಾ ಸ್ಪೀಡ್ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಡಿ. ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಹಾಳೆಯ ಒಂದೇ ಮಗ್ಗಲಿಗೆ ಕಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಬಳಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಕಳಿಸಬೇಕು. ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರತಿಯಲ್ಲದೇ ನೀವು ಈಮೇಲ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಕೂಡ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಕ್ಷರಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರಹ/ನುಡಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬಳಸಿ. ಕೇವಲ ಈಮೇಲ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬಂದ ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಮುದ್ರಿತ ಪ್ರತಿ ಕಳಿಸುವುದು ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ. ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಯಾವುದೇ ಫೋನ್ ಕರೆಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. 

ಪ್ರವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳಿಸಿ:

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) 

H 301, Adarsh Gardens, 8th Block, 47th Cross, 

Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549

ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿಸಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ವೆಬ್ಸೈಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ (http://totofundsthearts.blogspot.com)   ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಲಾಗುವುದು. ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪತ್ರ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಟಿ.ಎಫ್.ಎ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿಯ ನಿರ್ಧಾರವೇ ಅಂತಿಮವಾದುದು ಮತ್ತು ಇದನ್ನು ಯಾವ ಬಗೆಯಲ್ಲೂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಲಾಗದು. ಅಗತ್ಯವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ಬರಹಗಳ ಆಯ್ದ ಭಾಗಗಳನ್ನು ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ತಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರದ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹಕ್ಕು ಟಿ.ಎಫ್.ಎ.ಗೆ ಇದೆ. ಉಳಿದಂತೆ ಕೃತಿಯ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಹಕ್ಕುಸ್ವಾಮ್ಯವು ಬರಹಗಾರರದೇ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ.

ಟಿ.ಎಫ್.ಎ. ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಆಂಗಿರಸ ‘ಟೊಟೊ’ ವೆಲ್ಲಾನಿಯ ಸ್ಮರಣಾರ್ಥ 2004 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತವಾಯಿತು. ಕಲೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗಾಢವಾದ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನಿರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ಟೊಟೊರವರ ಅಕಾಲಿಕ ಮರಣವು ಅವರ ಕುಟುಂಬ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರನ್ನು ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಪ್ರೇರೇಪಿಸಿತು. ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಯುವ ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಗಳಿಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಕಲಾತ್ಮಕ ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಉತ್ತೇಜನ ಸಿಗಲೆಂಬುದು ಇದರ ಆಶಯವಾಗಿದೆ.

Toto Award for Creative Writing (Kannada) 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

CREATIVE WRITING IN KANNADA

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites applications for its sixth annual Toto award from persons between the ages of 18 and 29, for creative writing in Kannada in three genres: short plays, short stories and poetry. The winner, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of Rs 30,000. Entries should reach TFA at the latest by 18 August 2015. 

The awards are meant only for Indian nationals resident in India. You are eligible to apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1986.  No exceptions will be made. Also, since the spirit of the award is to identify promising writers, please do not apply if you are already a well-known writer.

Each entry should be not more than 7,500 words. If you are submitting poems, please send 6 to 10 poems. If you are submitting short stories, their combined word length should be at least 2,500 words. You can, if you wish, send only a single story of 2,500 to 7,500 words. You can send entries in all three categories — poems, short stories and plays — but you must send in a separate entry for each category. For example, your poems can constitute one entry, your short stories the second entry, plays a third entry. 

Entries should be sent in hard copy form by courier or ordinary post only (and NOT by speed or registered post) to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only).  

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

H 301, Adarsh Gardens

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549/098806 23357

Please state the awards category for which you are applying on the envelope, e.g., Writing-Kannada (poetry) or Writing-Kannada (play) or Writing-Kannada (short story).  

Each entry must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, whether your work has been published in print (give details), and also affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone number (landline and mobile) and a short bio. Also ensure that the hard copy version of your submissions does not carry your name on it. Your entries will be given code numbers to protect your identity from the jury.  

If you have any further queries please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com.  No queries will be answered on phone. 

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use your submitted writings (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

Toto Funds the Arts is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films. 

Toto Awards for Creative Writing (English) 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites applications for its eleventh TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English from persons between the ages of 18 and 29 in three genres: short plays, short stories and poetry. Two winners, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of Rs 30,000 each. Entries should reach TFA by 18 August 2015.  

The awards are meant only for Indian nationals resident in India. Since the spirit of the awards is to identify promising young writers, you are eligible to apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1986. No exceptions will be made.

Each entry should be not more than 7,500 words. If you are submitting poems, please send 6 to 10 poems. If you are submitting short stories, their combined word length should be at least 2,500 words. You can, if you wish, send only a single story of 2,500 to 7,500 words. You can send entries in all three categories — poems, short stories and plays — but you must send in a separate entry for each category. For example, your poems can constitute one entry, your short stories the second entry, plays a third entry. 

Entries should be sent in soft email copy to sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com as well as in hard copy form by courier or ordinary post only (and NOT by speedpost or registered post) to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only).  

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

H 301, Adarsh Gardens

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549 / 09880623357

Please state the awards category for which you are applying on the envelope, e.g., Writing-English (poetry) or Writing-English (short fiction), etc. 

Each entry must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, whether your work has been published in print (give details), and affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone numbers (landline and mobile) and a short bio. Also ensure that the hard copy version of your submissions does not carry your name on it. Your entries will be given code numbers to protect your identity from the jury. For any entry to be considered, both the soft copy and hard copy of the submission should reach us before the deadline. 

If you have any further questions please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com. No queries will be answered on phone. 

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use your submitted writings (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

Toto Funds the Arts is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.