Reshma Ruia

​​​Reshma Ruia is an award-winning author and poet. The Sunday Times described her first novel, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy.’ Her second novel manuscript, A Mouthful of Silence, was shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize. It will be published as Still Lives in June 2022. Her short stories and poems have appeared in British and International anthologies and magazines and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Her poetry collection, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, won the 2019 Debut Word Masala Award. Her short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness was published in 2021. 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. 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. 
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www.reshmaruia.com
Twitter: ​@RESHMARUIA

Kavita A. Jindal​

Kavita A. Jindal is an award-winning poet, novelist and essayist. She is the author of Manual For A Decent Life which won the Eastern Eye Award for Literature 2020 and the Brighthorse Prize. She has published two poetry collections to critical acclaim: Patina and Raincheck Renewed. Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals worldwide and been broadcast on BBC Radio, Zee TV and European radio stations. She has contributed fiction, non-fiction and poetry to more than thirty anthologies published variously in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, India, Hong Kong, Germany and Romania. Her poem Kabariwala is included in 100 Great Indian Poems published by Bloomsbury in 2018. Her poem Act of Faith is included in the anthology ‘Unseen’ which is in the UK GCSE and A Levels syllabus. She served as Senior Editor at Asia Literary Review and she is co-founder of The Whole Kahani. 

​www.kavitajindal.com
Twitter: @writerkavita
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Mona Dash 

Mona Dash is the author of A Roll of the Dice : a story of loss, love and genetics (Linen Press, 2019) winner of the Eyelands International Book Awards for memoir (2020),  and very recently, Let Us Look Elsewhere (Dahlia Books, June ’21), which was a finalist in the Eyelands Book Award. 2021. She was recently commissioned to write a short story by BBC Radio 4 Short Works, a long running short story series. Her other published books are A Certain Way, Untamed Heart, and Dawn-drops. 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, and widely published in  international journals and more than twenty anthologies. A graduate in Telecoms Engineering, she holds an MBA, and also a Masters in Creative Writing (with distinction) She works  in a global tech company and lives in London. ​
 
www.monadash.net
Twitter: @Dash2Mona

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.

Twitter: @NadiaKabirBarb

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. 

Twitter: @radhikakapur
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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.

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.

Twitter: @Booshib
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Khadija Rouf

​Khadija lives in the UK, and writes poetry and fiction when not working in her day job for the NHS. She has an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University, and has had more than poems published in journals such as Orbis, Sarasvati, Dream Catcher and Six Seasons. Her short stories have been commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize (in 2016 and 2017) and her poetry was commended in Hippocrates Poetry Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2017). She has self-published Gloria Exbat, a novella for children and young adults. Most recently, she has been published in These Are The Hands, an anthology of poems about the Health Service, edited by Deborah Alma and Katie Amiel (published by Fair Acre Press, and proceeds going to NHS Charities Together COVID appeal).