Eligibility: Long-listed Applicants for the Toto English Writing Awards between 2019 and 2023
Toto Funds the Arts, in partnership with Sangam House, is delighted to announce a two-week residency fellowship for writers at Sangam House.
The fellowship will cover board and lodge for a two-week period — 2 December 2023 to 15 December 2023 — at the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency located at The Jamun in Bangalore. (For more information about Sangam House, please visit www.sangamhouse.org)
The fellowship is open to anyone who has either won or been shortlisted or long-listed for the TOTO English Creative Writing Awards over the last five years, i.e., from 2019 onwards.
Please note that this fellowship does not include a stipend or cover costs of transport/travel to and from Sangam House.
Applications from the following genres of writing are welcome: poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction.
Your application must include:
– a one-page statement describing what you intend to work on while at Sangam House
– a recent writing sample of not more than 5,000 words.
Applications should reach Sarita Vellani at [email protected] no later than 5 August 2023.
If you have any questions, please write to the email address provided.
Please do not apply if you are not available during the first half of December. The name of the recipient of the fellowship –– to be determined by Sangam House –– will be announced in September 2023.
All applications must be sent by email with a covering note (which mentions your date of birth, your current occupation, your phone number and your postal address) and two attachments, one each for your statement of purpose and your writing sample. The covering note should also mention the year in which you were longlisted or shortlisted, or won the TOTO Award for Creative Writing in English.
Note: If you have been awarded a residency at Sangam House since 2018, you are not eligible to apply this year.