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A gift from Literary Activism for Diwali: Saikat Majumdar’s illuminating essay on AI, writing, speech, Derrida, and Joyce’s Dubliners.
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New on the Literary Activism website, the novelist and critic Kirsty Gunn’s wonderful enquiry into what it means to misremember passages or sentences from literary works.
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New on the Literary Activism website: an email thread among friends discussing Wittgenstein and Tagore, with two new translations of the first song in the Gitanjali.
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We’re delighted to announce a new award, the Ved Mehta Prize for Creative Nonfiction, made possible by a donation by the memoirist’s family, run jointly by the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University, and Balliol College, Oxford. vedmehtaprize.org
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The 15th international eight-day fiction workshop will start from 4th July 2026.
As before, it will be led by its creator, the writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri. Deadline for applications: 18th June. For all details, see: ashoka.edu.in/event/eight-da…
Livestream day 2 of the symposium, ‘Doing the Dirt on Tragedy’, here: youtube.com/live/nZdqsm5p4zo…
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Day 2 of the 11th Literary Activism symposium, ‘Doing the Dirt on Tragedy’, is tomorrow, 28th March. It’s open to all.
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Livestream day 1 of the symposium, ‘Doing the Dirt on Tragedy’, here: literaryactivism.us10.list-m…
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Day 1 of the 11th Literary Activism symposium, ‘Doing the Dirt on Tragedy’, is tomorrow, 27th March. It’s open to all.
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The 11th Literary Activism symposium, ‘Doing the Dirt on Tragedy’, takes place on 27th and 28th March at the India International Centre, Delhi. It is open to all.
For mission statement, see: ashoka.edu.in/event/the-11th…
Link in bio.
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Reviews of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s new collection of poems, Of Least Concern (the latest in the Literary Activism series), have been appearing recently. Here’s one from Scroll: scroll.in/article/1089737/of…
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Excerpts from Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s new book of poems, Of Least Concern - a poem sequence about Arvind’s garden; a note by him on his writing process; a poem written on the occasion of publication; and a video of the garden by Laetitia Zecchini.
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s new book of poems, Of Least Concern, is out from Literary Activism: amzn.in/d/4aB72Qq It’s about the inexhaustible activity in the garden of his house in Dehradun, and in its environs.
These photos by Palash Krishna Mehrotra. @WestlandBooks
Charles Bernstein’s essay on the hegemony of peer review: literaryactivism.com/compuls…
In the future, we’ll discuss the conformity imposed by mainstream (non-peer reviewed) literary journals and creative writing teaching, turning these into what Paul Bové calls ‘safe spaces’
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Following up on Literary Activism’s interrogation of the imaginative and critical limitations of the peer-reviewed essay, we bring you two new essays pertaining to this discussion in America. Here’s critic Paul Bové’s rich and complex disquisition:
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Tomorrow at 3 pm in Bangalore, we’ll be discussing ten years of the Literary Activism project. It’s open to all.
Ranajit Das, Samik Bandopadhyay, Oindrilla Maity and Amit Chaudhuri will be in conversation with Madeleine St John at Kolkata Centre for Creativity at 5 pm tomorrow, 24th October.
Here’s Das’s funny, excoriating essay from the On Failing symposium: literaryactivism.com/descrip…
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Ranajit Das, Samik Bandopadhyay, Oindrilla Maity and Amit Chaudhuri will be in conversation with Madeleine St John at Kolkata Centre for Creativity at 5 pm tomorrow, 24th October.
Here’s Das’s funny, excoriating essay from the On Failing symposium: literaryactivism.com/descrip…
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Tiffany Atkinson’s terrific essay (weaving together IVF and Brexit) from the On Failing collection, now up on the Literary Activism website: literaryactivism.com/one-doo…
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