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‘Ontological Musings’ by Tina Mukerji Mehta

Tina Mukherjee Mehta

Poet’s Bio: Tina Mukerji Mehta has been a screenwriter and content writer for nearly a decade,  and has also been a juror in numerous Film Festivals and Screenwriting Competitions, Endas Screenplay Competition and JNU Filmfest. She has worked with auteurs like…

‘The World is Dreams’ by Tina Mukerji Mehta

Tina Mukherjee Mehta

Poet’s Bio: Tina Mukerji Mehta has been a screenwriter and content writer for nearly a decade,  and has also been a juror in numerous Film Festivals and Screenwriting Competitions, Endas Screenplay Competition and JNU Filmfest. She has worked with auteurs like…

‘Sparrow’ by Karishma Khanna

Short story selected for the 2014 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology Anshu sat on the footpath and cried. Back then, it seemed like a good idea. Soon, people at the streets looked at her and pointed her out to…

‘The Bitch’ by Ritika Pathak

Short story selected for the 2014 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology She was labelled a bitch. Of course, after two divorces, both initiated by her, she was viewed with suspicion. There is nothing more annoying than being a lowly…

NAW Interview with Jennifer Nielsen

Jennifer Nielsen

New York Times Bestselling author, Jennifer Nielsen, was born and raised in northern Utah, where she still lives today with her husband, three children, and a dog that won’t play fetch. She is the author of The Ascendance trilogy, beginning…

NAW Interview with Barbara De Leo

Barbara De Leo

Barbara De Leo’s first book, co-written with her best friend, was a story about beauty queens in space. She was eleven, and the sole, handwritten copy was lost years ago, much to everyone’s relief. It’s some small miracle that she…

NAW Interview With Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Malaviya considers herself a morpher, having been born in the U.K. and raised in the U.S. and India. She is founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Project, an initiative to document, preserve and promote the legacy of modern Indian…

NAW Interview with Eshwar Sundaresan

Eshwar Sudaresan

Eshwar Sundaresan is a Bangalore-based writer and a freelance journalist. He worked in the corporate industry before pursuing writing full time. Behind the silicon mask is his latest book. Visit him here. NAW- When did your literary journey begin? At what age…

‘Live@Five’ by Larry Brill (Book Excerpt)

Live@Five cover

Larry Brill was born and raised in San Jose,CA. He has a Journalism degree from San Jose State University and spent 25 years as a TV news anchor in Oregon, California, Colorado and Texas. He is the author of The Patterer and Live@Five. Read an excerpt…

NAW Interview with Larry Brill

Larry Brill

Larry Brill was born and raised in San Jose,CA. He has a Journalism degree from San Jose State University and spent 25 years as a TV news anchor in Oregon, California, Colorado and Texas. He is the author of The Patterer and…