19
Sep 2024
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Uncovering Urban Legacies: Stories of Bombay's Precincts - Mazagon
Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Mumbai - 400001
Avid Learning presents The Art and Craft of Writing Bestsellers, a day-long creative writing workshop which will be co-conducted by Summer Institute Coordinator at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Dr. Peter Gerlach and Award-winning Author, Journalist and Speaker, Meghna Pant. They will be joined by a special guest speaker, Book Reviewer and Author, Vivek Tejuja. This workshop is AVID’s third collaboration with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), one of the most celebrated and prestigious creative writing programs in the world. The program was the first creative writing degree program in the United States and since its founding in 1936, has produced among its graduates notable award-winning writers
Peter Gerlach, PhD is Summer Institute Coordinator at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He received his BA and MA degrees in English from Ripon College and the University of Northern Colorado, respectively. After serving in the US Peace Corps in Mongolia, he earned a PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University. Since 2004, he has taught a variety of university-level courses in both English and Education departments. Dr. Gerlach’s dissertation, current teaching, and research interests focus on the internationalization of higher education, the lived experiences of university students in a globalized world, and the need for understanding and empathy across cultures.
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Meghna Pant is a multiple award-winning author, journalist and speaker. She has been felicitated with various honours and shortlists for distinguished contribution to literature, gender issues and journalism, including the Laadli Media Award, Bharat Nirman Award, Muse India Young Writer Award, FON South Asia Short Story Award, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Frank O'Connor International Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her books – FEMINIST RANI (Penguin Random House, 2018), THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN (Juggernaut, 2016), HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Random House India, 2013) and ONE & A HALF WIFE (Westland, 2012) have been published to commercial and critical acclaim. Her latest book HOW TO GET PUBLISHED IN INDIA (Bloomsbury) is India's first-ever self-help book on publishing and it includes never-before collected essays from experts in their field, including Jeffrey Archer, Shobhaa De, Twinkle Khanna, Ashwin Sanghi, Meena Kandasamy, Durjoy Datta, Preeti Shenoy, Ravi Subramanian and many more. It was #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases and #2 on Amazon's Bestseller List."
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Vivek Tejuja Besides being an avid bibliophile, Vivek loves food and cats. An accidental writer, he indulges in solitude and wishes there was more time to write and read. A Mumbai boy through and through, the sea is one of his loves. Men are also a part of his existence on and off. Vivek believes in the complete providence of fate. His debut book, So Now You Know is out this September with Harper Collins.
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