Date: Saturday, 2nd February (Session 1); Sunday, 3rd February (Session 2)
Time: 10:30 – 13:30 (both days)
Venue: Bombay Natural History Society, Auditorium
Conducted by: Kavita Bhanot

PenTathlon, a two-day workshop, will serve as an introduction to fiction writing. It will include five fun writing exercises that draw inspiration from the world around us, and will focus on five aspects of creative writing: characterization, dialogue, description, point-of-view and openings. All these will be drawn together to produce a micro-story over two days.

(More about the workshop leader and details on how to register below the fold.)

Kavita Bhanot was born in London, lived in the West Midlands for ten years and moved to Delhi in 2006. She has had her short stories published in anthologies and journals, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She has MAs in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature and in Writing, from Warwick University, and has been studying and teaching creative writing for the last five years. She has been a co-ordinator for the Birmingham Book Festival for the last three years and directed the 2007 Kitab Literary festival in Bombay. She is currently an editor at Osians Literary Agency.

To register
Please mail kalaghoda DOT workshops AT gmail DOT com with the subject line ‘PenTathlon.’
In your mail, please include:
1. Your name, an email address and a phone number (preferably cellular)
2. A line or two about your previous experience in this area.
3. A line or two about what you’re looking for from this workshop.
4. Participants should a pen and notepad and an extract of about 500 words from a piece of fiction they have written.

There are only 15 seats available. Please register early!

Please inform us well in time if you need to drop out, so we can free the seat for someone else.

Please make sure you are at the workshop venue 15 minutes before the posted start time.

We will inform all registered participants about any changes in schedules. But please keep an eye on this post as well for any changes.