The application
Applications for 2013 must be received by July 31, 2012.
Dates for 2013 Sangam House Session:
January-March
How to Apply:
All applications must be submitted electronically. Instructions and forms can be found at sangamhouse.submishmash.com/Submit
All notifications will be provided electronically by September 15, 2012.
If an applicant is unable to submit an application electronically, please write with explanation of circumstances to:
(In South Asia)
Arshia Sattar at arshia.sangam@gmail.com
(Outside of South Asia)
DW Gibson at dwmgibson@yahoo.com
Available Fellowships
In addition to general applications, Sangam House offers specific fellowships.
Please note that fellowships cover only board and lodge at Sangam House. Writers are required to cover travel costs to and from Sangam House.
The Asif Currimbhoy Fellowship for 2-4 weeks
is open to Indian playwrights from Indian and the rest of the world, working in any language.
Asif Currimbhoy (1928-1994) was one of the first Indian playwrights to write plays in English. Dumb Dancer, Goa, The Hungry Ones and Inquilab, were mainly about the dispossessed. He stretched his material beyond the confines of the particular to produce an imaginative re-creation of the individual in conflict with the social and political system. Although he wrote in India, his career as a playwright blossomed in the U.S. Goa was staged at the prestigious Martinique Theater on Broadway in New York City, The Hungry Ones at the Theater Company in Boston and at La Mama in New York’s Greenwich Village which also staged The Dumb Dancer. His plays were banned in India for almost a decade. Finally in 1970, Goa was chosen to open the India National Center for Performing Arts in Delhi. His work has been translated into Bengali, Marathi, Hindi & Malyalam.
The Nevatia Fellowship for Humanist Writing for 2-4 weeks
will support an Indian writer working in any Indian language,including English, in non-fiction, fiction and translation, whose work focuses on secularism, human rights, violence (from domestic abuse to international conflicts), or equality and discrimination based on caste, gender or religion.
