: How to build a creative writing programme as part of academic courses at an Indian university #IndiaNEWS Perhaps the best-known recent attempt of sustained creative writing instruction in India is

How to build a creative writing programme as part of academic courses at an Indian university #IndiaNEWS
Perhaps the best-known recent attempt of sustained creative writing instruction in India is the series of workshops run by the University of East Anglia in India since 2013, popularly known as the UEA-India workshops. They are organised by Amit Chaudhuri, who is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at UEA, where he teaches every autumn semester. As part of the initiative of the UEA’s presence in India, Chaudhuri conducts a eight-day creative writing workshop, usually taught by Chaudhuri and one guest writer – a list which has included Adam Foulds, Ian Jack, Anjali Joseph, and Kirsty Gunn, among others. These are conducted once, and sometimes two times, a year, and admit students on a competitive basis, based on their writing sample, personal statements, and letters of recommendation. Over ten of these workshops have been conducted so far, and their alumni now includes several published authors, editors, and journalists. They are, in fact, currently considered to be the most prominent route for new Indian writers to get published on visible professional platforms.Beginning 2020, the UEA-India workshops have moved to Ashoka University, where Chaudhuri is now Professor of Creative Writing, teaching a course every spring. Now renamed the Ashoka-UEA Creative Writing Workshops, this programme is possibly...Read more

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