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Unisun Creative Writing Competitions 2007



K R USHA

A well-established writer, she began her career by writing short stories for children and adults, published in several magazines and newspapers including Femina and Target. ‘Sepia Tones' won the prestigious Katha Award for Short Fiction. Her novels – Sojourn, The Chosen and A Girl and a River – are quietly compelling and meticulously executed. Her gentle humour serves to highlight the uncompromising clarity of her perceptions.



DAVID VASNAIK

An engineer who has specialized in designing tea-processing machinery, David's work has taken him around the world from the pampas of Argentina to the highlands of Papua New Guinea with a good bit of Africa and Asia in between. His stories are drawn from real life incidents, some of which have been published in the Unisun anthology A Cup of Chai. More recently, his short story After the Ball won joint first place in the Deccan Herald short story competition. He lives with his wife and dog in Bangalore.



C K MEENA

C.K. Meena is a well-known Bangalore-based journalist and journalism teacher whose first novel Black Lentil Doughnuts was published in 2005. She has written extensively for the Deccan Herald and the Hindu and taught at the Asian College of Journalism and the Manipal Institute of Communication.



PROF MARY MATHEW

A rank holder and gold medallist, she has been teaching English literature and Communication Skills at Mount Carmel College for the last 23 years. She has served as a text-book committee member and resource person for the Bangalore University. Her MPhil dissertation on the teaching of fiction with specific reference to Joseph Conrad's ‘Heart of Darkness' has become a benchmark for those teaching and studying this novel.



KALA RAMESH

Kala Ramesh teaches writing as a part of the Communicative English course at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. Even as a student she, won several prizes for her poetry and is a well-known reviewer of books. She believes that writing is adventure, mystery and thrills!



SURYAKUMARI DENNISON

An MA in English from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and diploma holder in English Studies from CIEFL, with over thirty years experience of teaching English Literature at Miranda House, Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi, Mount Carmel College and Bishop Cotton's Girls High School, Bangalore, she is a prolific contributor of short stories, ‘middles', educational pieces, poems and travel pieces to all the best known newspapers and magazines.



MALAVIKA KAPUR

Prof. Malavika Kapur is a Clinical Psychologist, and till recently Head of the Dept at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore. She has several national and international publications to her credit. She has published several stories for children, including Adventures of Kudremukh and her story Nessy of Lochness which won an award from the Children's Book Trust. She is the daughter of the renowned Kannada writer Dr. Shivarama Karanth.

(I Prize)

The Music of the Stars




SALIL CHATURVEDI

Born in 1968 in Coimbatore, he fought paralysis after a road accident. He has represented India for wheelchair tennis at the Japan and Australian Opens. In the children's muppet serial titled Galli Galli Sim Sim, the Indian remake of Sesame Street, he plays the role of Jugaadu. He is fond of travelling and writes poetry in two languages and on disability issues from time to time. He won the third prize for poetry in the Unisun Writing Competition 2006. His poems have been published in the The Silken Web.

(II Prize)

Pixie Boots




JAHNAVI BARUA

A doctor by training, but now a full time mother and homemaker by choice, she has been an avid reader and amateur writer of short stories since school days. She won first prize in the Unisun Short Story Competition 2005, and second place in the Children's Fiction category the following year. She attended the weeklong Creative Writing Program conducted by the Arvon Foundation, U.K, sponsored by the Charles Wallace India Trust.

(III Prize)

One Full Orange




ANURADHA NALAPAT

A graduate from the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Anuradha is an established artist and writer. She has many exhibitions from all over India, to her credit, and has published a book of verse titled Nothing Is Safe. Her poems have been published in journals and magazines, including the Sahithya Akademi Journal, Indian Literature. She is a member of InkLinks, a group of women short-story writers in Bangalore.

(Special Mention)

No Talking After Lights Out




GERALYN PINTO

Geralyn Pinto lives life between a page and a stage. A lecturer of English at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, she earned her doctoral degree for her work on Amitav Ghosh, presented a paper on ‘The De-elitization of History', at an international conference held in Vancouver and represented Asia at semi-medical conferences organized by the International Ostomy Association. She is the convenor of “Curtain Raisers”, an Honours Programme in the theatrical arts. She has won several awards including a runners-up award for the Fourth Annual Non-Fiction Writing Contest (Outlook-Picador India). Her short story, No Talking After Lights Out, has also been awarded a special mention.

(I Prize)

Backyard Ballet




BRIDGET A RAJU

Bridget Raju is a Bangalore based elementary school teacher. She loves reading and writes only when she is inspired. She has a degree in Microbiology from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and a degree in literature from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA where she has won a writing contest. She loves, baking, watercolours, painting on porcelain and most of all discovering the world all over again through her daughter, Mia.

(II Prize)

Why I Can't




VAISHALI DINAKARAN

A final year Media student from Mount Carmel College, Vaishali is an aspiring writer and a self-confessed Ferrari fanatic. She harbours ambitions of a career in motor journalism. When not occupied with reading, writing and Formula One, she dabbles in sketching, doodling and freelance graphic designing.

(III Prize)

To the Woman Who Will Claim My Son




RUMJHUM BISWAS

Rumjhum Biswas is seriously committed to her first love - writing. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in print and online, in literary journals and anthologies in countries across the globe, from New Zealand to Australia, Switzerland, India, Algeria, UK, South Africa and the United States. She has embarked on her second novel, while writing short fiction and poetry in between. One of her poems was long listed in the 2006 Bridport Poetry Prize. For more details of her writing, go to her website: www.rumjhumbiswas.com.

(I Prize)

Hieroglyphs




KHYRUNNISA A

An English lecturer at All Saints' College, Trivandrum, Khyrunnisa is a freelance writer who specialises in fiction for children. Her stories are regularly published in Tinkle, and Dimdima. She has won 16 All India prizes at competitions and has created a character called “Butterfingers” for a popular series. Her journalistic work includes a regular ongoing column on books for the New Indian Express and articles in leading newspapers. She has the distinction of winning both the first and second prize for the Children's Fiction category in the Unisun Competition this year.

(II Prize)

Absent Minded Madhu




KHYRUNNISA A

An English lecturer at All Saints' College, Trivandrum, Khyrunnisa is a freelance writer who specialises in fiction for children. Her stories are regularly published in Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, and Dimdima. She has won 16 All India prizes at competitions and has created a character called “Butterfingers” for a popular series. Her journalistic work includes a regular ongoing column on books for the New Indian Express articles in leading newspapers. She has the distinction of winning both the first and second prize for the Children's Fiction category in the Unisun Competition this year.

Special Mention

Angel Gabriel




GERALYN PINTO

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