The Toto-Sangam Residency Fellowship 2019-20: Call for Applications

THE TOTO-SANGAM RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIP 2019-20

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. Also visit www.thejamun.com)

The fellowship is open to anyone who has either won or been short-listed for the TOTO Creative Writing Awards since their inception in 2006. Please note that the 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 10 August 2019. If you have any questions, write to the email address provided or call +919880623357.

This Sangam House session will run from 1 November 2019 to 31 January 2020. Please do not apply if you are not available during that time.

The exact dates of the two-week slot between November 2019 and January 2020 will be decided by the end of August 2019.

The name of the recipient of the fellowship –– to be determined by Sangam House –– will be announced at the end of September 2019 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.

NB: If you have been awarded a residency at Sangam House since 2014, you are not eligible to apply this year.