A creative Writing event with Susmita Bhattacharya Event
- Time:
- 18:00
- Date:
- 25 October 2021
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C
Event details
Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer and creative writing lecturer. Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian, 2015, BEE Books, India 2016) was long-listed for the Word to Screen Prize at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018.
Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing, 2018) won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection (2019) and was a finalist for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Prize, 2019. Her short stories have been featured on BBC Radio 4.
She teaches creative writing at Winchester University, facilitates the ArtfulScribe Mayflower Young Writers programme in Southampton and has been involved in several Mayflower 400 projects in 2020. She was a mentor on Dahlia Book's mentoring programme for new writers of colour, The Middle Way Mentoring Project. She was also the Writer-in-Residence at the Word Factory, London in 2021. She lives in Winchester.