Fragments of Riversong (Daily Star Books, 2013), and Saad Z Hussain, author of
Djinn City (Bengal Lights Books, 2018) and
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (Bengal Lights Books, 2019), as well as Mumbai-based journalist Jane Borges, Catherine Menon, author of
Fragile Monsters (Viking 2021), and Sabyn Javeri, author of
Hijabistan (Harper Collins 2019), among others. The masterclasses and sessions will cover everything from writing inspiration to practicing craft to research to publication , Farah Ghuznavi told
The Daily Star. I am not part of the selection process but I can definitely say that the successful applicant will need to have an originality of voice that can absorb the reader completely , she added.