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NAW Interview with Adi Rule

Adi Rule

Adi Rule earned her MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and also has a BA in voice from the University of New Hampshire. Her first book is Strange Sweet Song. NAW- Please give me your bio in…

NAW Interview with Nicoletta Del Franco

Nicoletta Del Franco

Nicoletta Del Franco (PhD Development Studies, University of Sussex, 2007; MA Gender and Development, IDS- University of Sussex, 1999) is a researcher and development consultant with extensive experience of qualitative research in South Asia (rural and urban Bangladesh in particular)…

NAW Interview with Ankush Saikia

Ankush Saikia

Ankush Saikia is the author of “The Girl from Nongrim Hills”, a noir thriller set in Shillong, and published by Penguin.  He has worked for India Today magazine, Sage Publications and Dorling Kindersley. He was shortlisted for the fourth Outlook/Picador-India non-fiction writing award…

NAW Interview with Fiona Walker

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Fiona Walker has a reputation as the voice of young, media-aware women. Dubbed ‘The Jilly Cooper of the Cosmo Generation’, she trained in theatre arts and worked briefly in advertising before becoming a bestselling novelist in her twenties, injecting her…

‘FLY’ by Anuradha Handique

The Cost to Understanding 2

She let herself into a new world; And let the old world go forever. Life is short they say, So why squander in despair that leads nowhere?   She heard the voice of hope, Greeted dreams on her way on…

‘Today’ by Ananya S Guha

The Date 2

Today is another story, not another dayevery day is a story, a narrationof fact, fiction and the mind.a dog whimpers, limps across the road.so does another man, another woman.still, today is different.yesterday had another story, the moonand a sleepless night.…

NAW Interview With Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich is a bestselling author and ranks among the top authors. She was placed No. 79 on Forbes’ list of The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities, with earnings running into millions.   NAW-When did your literary journey begin? At what age did…

NAW Interview With Vineetha Mokkil

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Vineetha Mokkil is a writer based in New Delhi, India. Her short stories have been published in Santa Fe Writers Project Journal and Why We Don’t Talk, and in the Asia Writes Project. Her debut work- “A Happy Place” was published by Harper Collins. It…

NAW Interview With Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and during her childhood, she travelled extensively abroad, particularly to the Far East. Moving to drama school in London, she became an actress, working in film, theatre and television. At twenty-four, she wrote her first novel,…

Book Review- More Men on My Mind, Radha Thomas

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More Men on My Mind has a very glossy eye catching cover which appeals to the eye. So does the text. Radha Thomas has skilfully treaded the thin line between voyeuristic pleasure and a literary novel. I think she has stumbled…

NAW Interview With Don and Cathy Rush

Don and Cathy Rush

Don and Cathy Rush have written and self-published five illustrated storybooks including Robby’s Quest for Seed, Robby’s Quest: Ocean Bound, Robby’s Quest: Return of the Cat, Robby’s Quest: Thrills and Chills and Hershey Learns a lesson. They have two daughters,…

NAW Interview with Lauren Francis Sharma

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Lauren Francis Sharma was born in New York City to Trinidadian immigrants and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from…