3 COMPONENTS OF THE ANEW WRITING PROGRAM

The Modules

The month-long online modules focus on engagement with writers and their work and influences. Each module focuses on a theme: Contemporary Indian Writing, Translation, Eco-poetics, Building a Manuscript, Poetry and History, P erformance and Digital Poetics, and include curated reading, viewing and listening material, Skype meetings and Google hangouts, along with weekly writing assignments.

The Residency

The Residency happens after students have taken all the modules and before they submit their thesis. Between Dec-Jan, students and faculty members will travel across India, giving readings, and attending workshops, while creating a first draft of a portfolio based on writing exercises from the modules.

We hope to start the first residency in late 2017, during which we will visit Delhi, Khajuraho, Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore and Mumbai.

The Portfolio

In a way, the portfolio is what the entire program revolves around—helping students create new work, while introducing them to the work of writers who are using language in new ways, pushing the boundaries of what language can do.

Students are required to submit a manuscript of approximately 30-45 pages at the end of the program. 

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW TO APPLY: anewwritingprogram@gmail.com

Structure of the ANEW WRITING PROGRAM

The Structure

Students start with a short orientation meeting with the Director, after which they take monthly reading and writing intensive online modules. 

A minimum of six modules are required for a certificate, to be completed within eight months. 

Students are then invited to a residency, where they put the final touches to their thesis— a chapbook length manuscript in any genre, while meeting with faculty, attending workshops, etc. 

Please write to anewwritingprogram@gmail.com for more details

THE ANEW WRITING PROGRAM

Anew Writing Program

The Anew Writing Program is a low-residency writing program based in India. 

It allows emerging writers to learn with practitioners in the literary, visual, and interdisciplinary arts from across the world while focusing on their own work in a structured and guided environment. 

Students take six-eight months of courses online, divided into monthly modules. Then they attend a Residency spread across several cities in India. 

Modules are taught by an international faculty, poets and writers.

Students are required to submit a 30-45 page thesis work at the end of the program and receive a Certificate in the Literary Arts.

Please write to anewwritingprogram@gmail.com for more details

What is ANEW?

ANEW is an assemblage of components, all of which are aimed at fostering experimental creative practices that use language as their medium. ANEW includes:

• Anew Writing Program: India’s first low-residency writing program
• Anew Print: a press devoted to translations and reissues of contemporary work and classics
• Anew Library or The Leslie Scalapino Library of Innovative Books: a traveling library
specialising in books on art and literature.

By facilitating education and creative practice, intellectual exchange and publication, ANEW hopes to rejuvenate literary and text-based artistic practices in India. 

To find out more about the Anew Writing Program, write to: anewwritingprogram@gmail.com 

To submit to Anew Print, write to: anewprint@gmail.com