Reshma Ruia

​​​Reshma Ruia is an award winning author and poet. Her first novel, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, was described in the Sunday Times as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy.’ Her second novel manuscript, A Mouthful of Silence,
was shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize. Her short stories and poems have appeared in various British and International anthologies and magazines and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of poetry,
A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, won the 2019 Debut Word Masala Award. Her short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness will be published next year. She has a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing from Manchester University(Distinction) as well as a Bachelor, and Masters Degree with Distinction from the London School of Economics. Reshma worked as a development economist with the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme of
the UN in Italy and the OECD in Paris, prior to moving to Manchester. She is
the co-founder of The Whole Kahani-a writers’ collective of British South Asian writers, fiction editor of Jaggery magazine and book reviewer for Words
of Colour. Born in India and brought up in Rome, her writing reflects the inherent
preoccupations of those who possess a multiple sense of belonging.
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​@RESHMARUIA
www.reshmaruia.com

Kavita A. Jindal​

Kavita is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals worldwide and been broadcast on BBC Radio and European radio
stations. She is the author of the novel Manual For A Decent Life which won the Brighthorse Prize and was released in the US and the UK in 2020. She has published
two poetry collections to critical acclaim: Patina and Raincheck Renewed. She is the co-founder of The Whole Kahani and also enjoys collaborating with musicians
and artists across a range of projects.

​www.kavitajindal.com
Twitter: @writerkavita
facebook.com/kavitajindalauthor
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Shibani Lal

Shibani Lal writes short stories and flash fiction. She was a finalist for the 2019 Hamlin Garland award, and won the 2019 Autumn Term City University Writing Competition. In addition, her stories have been longlisted in several competitions, including the Bristol Prize, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Cambridge Short Story Prize. She was the runner-up for the 2015 Asian Writer Short Story prize. Her work has been published in the UK (Dahlia Press, Linen Press). Shibani holds an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, and is currently working on a short story collection.

 
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Radhika Kapur

Radhika’s work as a writer/Creative Director in advertising has won awards at Cannes, One Show, Asia Pacific Adfest, Clio and the Bombay Ad Club.  She also writes short fiction and scripts. Her writing has appeared in the Feminist Review, Poem International and The Pioneer. She won third place in the Euroscript Screenwriting Competition (2015) was longlisted for the BBC Script Room 12 (Drama – 2017) and the London Short Story Prize (2016). She is currently pursuing an MA in Screenwriting from Birkbeck, University of London. 

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Deblina Chakrabarty

Deblina is a freelance writer and a Bombayite relocated to London since the past 6 years. Since 2005 she’s written for various publications in India including Times of India, DNA, Man’s World, and various other dailies as well as magazines. She’s primarily interested in the chasm between genders, cultures, cities and lovers that form open terrain for the curious examinations of her pen (well, keyboard). By day she flirts on the fringes of storytelling, working for international distribution at a major Hollywood studio.

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Farrah Yusuf

Farrah was born in Pakistan and brought up in London. She writes plays, short stories and is currently working on her first novel. She took part in Kali Theatre TalkBack (2014/2015) and the Royal Court Theatre (2015) playwriting groups. Her short stories have been published in Five Degrees: The Asian Writer Short Story Prize (2012), Against the Grain (2013), Beyond the Border (2014), Love Across a Broken Map (2016), Dividing Lines: The Asian Writer Short Story Prize (2016) and The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize (2017) anthologies. She was a finalist in the Writeidea Short Story Prize (2014 and 2015). 

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C.G. Menon

C. G. Menon has won the Bare Fiction Prize (2017), the Leicester Writes Prize (2017), The Short Story Award (2015), the Asian Writer Prize (2015), The TBL Short Story Award (2015) and the Winchester Writers Festival award (2015). She’s been shortlisted for the Fish short story prize, the Short Fiction Journal awards, as well as the Willesden Herald, Rubery and WriteIdea prizes and the Fiction Desk Newcomer award. Her work has been published in a number of anthologies and broadcast on radio. She is currently studying for a creative writing MA at City University and working on her first novel.

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Nadia Kabir Barb

Nadia Kabir Barb is a British Bangladeshi writer and journalist. Her debut collection of short stories
Truth or Dare (Bengal Lights Books), was launched at the Dhaka Literary Festival in November 2017. Her stories have also been published in various international literary journals and anthologies
(Wasafiri, The Missing Slate, Open Road Review, Six Seasons Review, Bengal Lights). ‘Can You See
Me’ was one of the winners of the Audio Arcadia short story competition and published in EclecticMix, Volume Five. She received an Msc from The London School of Economics and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has worked in the the health and development sector in both the UK and Bangladesh. She is currently working on her first novel.

Mona Dash 

Mona Dash is the author of  A Roll of the Dice : a story of loss, love and genetics,  A Certain Way, Untamed Heart, and Dawn-drops. She won the Eyelands Book Award 2020 for the memoir category and is currently a finalist in the Eastern Eye ACTA for Literature. Her work has been listed in leading competitions such as Novel London 20, SI Leeds Literary award, Fish, Bath, Bristol, Leicester Writes and Asian Writer. Her short story collection Let us look elsewhere is forthcoming from Dahlia Publications in 2021. With a degree in engineering, an MBA, and a Masters in Creative Writing (with distinction) she works in a global tech company. She lives in London. More details of her work at  www.monadash.net



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