Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 30
March 18, 2020
Palimpsest – Interpreted x 4
What joy to have my haibun ‘Palimpsest’ read and interpreted by four spectacular haijins/haibuneers whose works I have admired and included in my workshops.
4 interpretations.
Review of Palimpset
Maybe we should do this for more poetry?
Chatting up on short poetry forms on Audiogyan podcast!
Listen in.
(with Sanket Mhatre, Pooja Bhatia)
February 24, 2020
My stories in KAANI, a literary magazine
KAANI, literary magazine, helmed by Michelle D’costa features my fiction too ‘Our Lovers’ and ‘Slice’ in its 5th issue of the Goan and Mangalorean experience. Sunday readings.
My first screenplay ‘A Brown Coat’ – semi-finalist at the ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION 2020.
A moment to celebrate.
My first screenplay ‘A Brown Coat’ moves from quarter-finalist top 20% to semi-finalist top 10% from 1300 entries at the ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION 2020.
The road ahead has to be sketched, of course. But time for glee.
February 20, 2020
APWT and NIFT welcome you to ‘Step Outside the Frame’, 24-26 Nov 2020, Bengaluru
Welcoming you, dear friends, to #APWT2020 Bengaluru India ‘Step Outside the Frame’ 24-26th November 2020 run in conjunction with host partner the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), and the Bangalore Literature Festival.
For further updates, click.
Come join in the fiesta of perspectives and panel discussions, networking and partnerships.
February 18, 2020
Summer Institute, Iowa is back for young, talented writers!
Last year I was mentor at the Summer Institute, Iowa city and it was such fun with the young and the supremely talented! Apply this year, if you are between 18-22 years old, from the U.S., India, and Pakistan for an immersive 2-week creative writing and cultural exchange program.
The IWP Summer Institute
– for participants ages 18-22
– from the U.S., India, and Pakistan
– an immersive two-week creative writing and cultural exchange
program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
– •• free •• for accepted applicants
IWP Between the Lines
– for students ages 15-18
– from the U.S. and 28 countries (listed below)
– a two-week creative writing and cultural exchange
summer camp at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
Scholarships are available (up to full funding—more info below).
The application deadline is Sunday, March 1.
Click for Between The Lines (BTL)
February 16, 2020
Come, submit your writings to Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing
Submissions are now open for Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing until March 1st 2020. Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) – the premiere literary organisation in the Asia Pacific region and Drunken Boat, one of the world’s first online literary journals announce a call for new work from all current or new financial APWT members. Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing will be distributed and available for sale internationally in both print and e-book formats and launched at #APWT2020 Bangalore, India. Submissions to this inaugural anthology, can take the form of poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction (up to 3500 words) and are open to all current or new APWT financial members. Translated works in all categories are encouraged.
Become a member of APWT:
https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/
Click on this link to make a submission: https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit
February 12, 2020
Paper Asylum reviewed by Dr. Pallavi Narayan in the Commonwealth Business News
An insightful and incisive review of Paper Asylum, by Dr. Pallavi Narayan appears in the Commonwealth Business News.
My book is, meanwhile, Out of Stock. Do inbox me if you wish a copy.
The book should soon be available here:
February 8, 2020
Myopia
To those sweet naysayers who keep passing dark darts to me.
A clarification –
I never claimed I am a great or good poet, but I have the right to express and write whatever I wish to, and in whichever form, and to keep improving my craft as I go along. It’s MY journey.
I, hereby, declare to continue doing so. You can choose to not read my work. I am absolutely fine with that.
But please excuse me your coterie’s group-think, your tribe’s virtue-signalling, your gossip. I never liked belonging to camps and dens. I am an introvert. I have a handful of precious friends and I live with it.
I want to continue experimenting with ideas, stories, ordinarily and always – like second nature. I have embraced the idea of failure. I have accepted constructive praise and criticism. But I can’t stop. I will not stop. So you adjust: pretend I don’t exist. Can you AT LEAST pretend?
(And shame on you – in these times of political strife, you don’t get ahead of your crab-basket/in-fighting.)
Here, it is also time to thank my friends, well-wishers, associates, supporters, collaborators, family who always always stood by me.
You are my FULCRUM.
Naysayers, you are my CRUMB.
LoL.
February 5, 2020
A haibun workshop with artist Nalini Malani’s exhibition! Do come.
Announcement #2:
Dear Friends,
You are welcome to a haibun poetry workshop conducted by me, that will begin with a walkthrough of the ongoing exhibition ‘The Witness’ showcasing works by artist Nalini Malani at the Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum.
The walkthrough will be led by the Museum’s Education Team and explore how Nalini Malani’s artworks reflect her preoccupations with the notions of oppression, dominance, justice, and feminism.
The themes will follow into the poetry workshop. Bring your calligraphic arrows, bring the parchment of scars.
On Sunday, 16 February 2020
10:30 – 14:30
Details, here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/183394836204891/
