Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) in association with Bangalore International Centre is pleased to announce a workshop on creative writing by Saikat Majumdar
Date: Friday 29 April 2022
Time: 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
(This is a free workshop)
Note to applicants (between 18 and 35 years):
We can only accommodate 15 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. Please email your brief bio and 300 words on why you want to join this workshop to tfaindia84@gmail.com by April 27 5.00 pm at the latest.
We urge the participants to visit Saikat’s website – www.saikatmajumdar.com to learn more about his work and read excerpts from his books.
About the workshop:
Is fiction unreal? Does it have to be invented? What is the place of the real in fiction? Where does reality end, and the fictional begin? Does fiction involve telling a story? Is it possible to have fiction without a story? What is the relation between the modern literary genres of the novel and the short story with ancient forms of storytelling?
Is it possible to learn to write? In a classroom? Is it teachable? Is it like the technical art forms – filmmaking, sculpture, photography? How important are technicalities in literature? If life and language are all we need, is our everyday life the best classroom for creative writers? What place does creative writing have next to other university subjects – literature, history, sociology, the sciences, the performing arts?
We will examine these questions, and Saikat will share his own process of writing, and the experience crafting different dimensions of fiction. A discussion will be followed by a writing exercise. Participants will subsequently be invited to share their work with the group and exchange feedback.
About the facilitator:
SAIKAT MAJUMDAR is a Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University. His most recent book is The Middle Finger, a campus novel that examines the intricacy of the teacher-student relation through the lens of ancient myths. Previous novels include The Scent of God (2019), a story of romantic love between two boys in a Hindu monastic boarding school, and The Firebird (2015), which narrates a young boy’s destructive relation with the art form of theatre through his mother’s life as an actress. The Scent of God was one of Times of India’s Most Talked About Books of 2019 and a finalist for the inaugural Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award, and The Firebird was finalist at the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize and the Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Market. Saikat has also published a work of nonfiction, College (2018), of literary criticism, Prose of the World (2013), and a co-edited collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur (2019).
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