Call for Applications: Imaginative Prose A masterclass facilitated by
Sharmistha Mohanty
4 November 2006 to 12 December 2006

Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi 110054

This workshop is open to those who wish to have a serious engagement withprose writing, fiction or non-fiction, that is, imaginative prose.

[Sharmistha Mohanty studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop in the USA. Sheis the author of two novels, Book One, and the recently published New Life(India Ink/Roli Books.) Her translations of Tagore’s fiction, Broken Nestand Other Stories, is due out in early 2007.Mohanty’s work has appeared in journals in the USA, UK, France, and India,as well as the online journal www.inertiamagazine.com. She was a fellow atthe Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany and has been awarded a SeniorFellowship by the Minsitry of Culture. She has also worked as ascriptwriter, among others with Mani Kaul, for the film Nazar.]

The workshop will have limited participants. Applicants should send in awriting sample of imaginative prose, not more than five pages, and a pageon why they would like to attend this workshop.

The workshop will run from November 4th to December 12th. There will betwo sessions a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

The sessions will begin at4:00 p.m. and will run for three hours each time.

Applications must be in by October 10th, 2006. Applicants will be informedby October 20th.

There is a participant charge of Rs. 1500, payable on confirmation ofselection.Applications and queries can be sent to dak at sarai.net, with the subjectline "Creative Writing Workshop". Paper applications should be posted to:
"Application for Creative Writing Workshop"
Sarai / CSDS
29 Rajpur RoadDelhi - 110054

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