Each year, the Chennai Mathematical Institute offers two non-Indian Sangam House alumni the opportunity to be Writers-In Residence at the Institute through their Arts Initiative Program.

The residency periods run for 6 weeks each, between January and March each year. Writers stay at the guesthouse on the CMI campus, where they also have office space. During their residency, writers interact with the CMI community as well as with other writers and literary organisations in the city.

Sangam House Alumni at CMI:

  • 2023: Rayji de Guia (English/Tagalog: Poetry, Fiction)
  • 2020: Cindy Lynn Brown (Danish: Poetry) and Panagiotis Gavriiloglou (Greek: Fiction)
  • 2019: Mindy Gill (English: Poetry) and Francesca Marciano (English: Fiction)
  • 2018: Emily Holleman (English: Prose)
  • 2017: Per Bloch (Danish: Poetry, Fiction, Music) and Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães (Portuguese: Fiction)
  • 2016: Leonora Christina Skov (Danish: Fiction) and Claus Ankersen (Danish: Poetry)
  • 2015: Mathilde Walter Clarke (Danish: Fiction) and NS Koenings (English: Fiction)
  • 2014: Jeremy Tiang (English: Fiction, Drama and Translation) and Karen Jennings (English: Fiction)