The Out of Print Workshop at Kala Ghoda: THE STORIES

LOVE AND PLURALITY: THE STORIES

2021

We are proud to present the ten stories workshopped by Out of Print at the Literature platform of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2021.

The theme of the workshop was Love and Plurality. We asked writers for stories that explored love with infinite possibility, love across gender, language, community and religion, love in any and all of its shapes and forms. There was a wide and wonderful range of submissions.

The ten stories were selected from somewhere close to 200 submissions by the Out of Print team, Indira Chandrasekhar, Vandana Devi and Zui Kumar-Reddy, who also led the workshop.

The selected stories explore love in complex ways, engaging with the idea of plurality with an encouraging openness and range. It was a fine experience to work with them.

The workshopping process that involved both critiquing by the workshop leaders, and a peer review engagement that allowed writers to analyse and craft their stories in response.

Please read the stories by clicking on the story names.

Sophia Naz                 The Sea and the Cemetery 

Megha Nayar                 A Friendly Note to the Woman My Husband Is Dating 

Himangshu Dutta         His Father's Disease 

K Vaishali                         Floral Patterns 

Tanvi Chowdhary         Noora

Riya Mehta                 It Rains Rainbows in the Big City

 

Rebecca Vedavathy         Blood Oranges 

Ayushi Aruna Agarwal Behind the Glass 

Gitanjali Joshua                 Frog Totem 

Priya Sood                 The Spare Room