Sangam House
Sangam house is an international writer's residency program that brings together writers from across the world to live and work in India among their peers in a safe, supportive and nurturing space.
Sangam House is an international writer's residency program that brings together writers from across the world to live and work among their peers in a safe, supportive and nurturing space.
Every winter the Sangam House invites approximately twenty writers to live and work at an arts institution in southern India. Each year, half the invited writers come from the South Asian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and half from other countries around the world. Sangam House is open to writers in all languages and disciplines - we welcome fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, translators, playwrights and screen-writers.
The Sangam House season usually runs for about 10 weeks between January and March. Individual residence periods are determined by writers' needs and available resources (though we recommend a residency period of no less than 2 weeks). A Sangam House invitation means that board and lodge are covered for the duration of the writer's stay with us.
2012 Residents
The list of residents for the 2012 season has been announced! Click to know more!
Read MoreMonsoon Meditations in Tranquebar: Celebrating 300 Years of Print Publishing in India
As we start the tri-centennial year of the origins of print culture in India (1712), Sangam House and the Danish Arts Council, supported by Neemrana Hotels, celebrate the advent of printing in the sub-continent by bringing Danish and Indian writers together in Tranquebar. In August 2011, five writers each from India and Denmark will share a two-week residency period in this historic location. Their task: to create a piece of work that includes a printing press.
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