The Toto-Sangam Residency Fellowship 2022: Call for Applications

 THE TOTO-SANGAM RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIP 2022

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 during the second half of December 2022 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 six 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 14 September 2022.  

If you have any questions, please write to the email address provided. 

Please do not apply if you are not available during the second half of December. The name of the recipient of the fellowship –– to be determined by Sangam House –– will be announced in early October 2022. 

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 Awards for Creative Writing in English.

Note: If you have been awarded a residency at Sangam House since 2017, you are not eligible to apply this year. 

Note from Sangam House:

COVID PROTOCOLS

Rest assured that we track the ever-changing Covid situation carefully and mindfully. We have stringent but not oppressive protocols in place should there be a need to step up extra sanitisation and personal interaction regulations for community health and safety. In good times and in more trying circumstances, we ask that you confer with your fellow residents about mutual comfort and ease during your time together.