Nobody's watching whether you write today. First Draft Club is. FDC #28 opens 6 Sept — daily sprints, Sunday live sessions (5pm IST), a shared tracker. ₹950 goes straight to Chirag School, not us. Link in bio. #FirstDraftClub #WriteEveryDay #writercommunity

Harper's Bazaar's 2026 short story prize went to "Kavyata Kay" for "Back and Forth." The judging panel included Booker Prize–shortlisted novelist Ruth Ozeki. A reader flagged the story as AI-generated.Read it yourself — could you tell? harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture…

History remembers events. Literature remembers people. Six writers turned Partition into unforgettable fiction — Manto, Pritam, Singh, Hosain, Sahni, Sidhwa. Some took decades to write it. Read one? Recommend one we missed. #IndianLiterature #independenceday

1 seat left in a 5-day Editing Masterclass with Alexandra Pringle — editor to Atwood, Gilbert, Hosseini, Saunders, Lahiri and more. Sept 1–6, at The Himalayan Writing Retreat, Satkhol. Link in bio to apply. #EditingMasterclass #AlexandraPringle #WritingCommunity #Publishing

Arundhati Roy: Booker Prize, 1997. Prosecuted under India's anti-terror law, 2024 — for one sentence from 2010. PEN America, the UN, and 200+ Indian academics have called for the case to be dropped. Link in bio. #WritingCommunity #FreeSpeech #PENAmerica

Journalism teaches you facts. It doesn't teach you insight — that's a separate craft. Rahul Pandita (5 books, ex-The Hindu, ex-Open Magazine) is teaching a 3-day non-fiction writing course at The Himalayan Writing Retreat. Sept 26–30, Max 10 seats. #WritingCommunity #nonfiction

Annie Zaidi won $100,000 for one essay about home — it became the memoir Bread, Cement, Cactus. This Sept, she teaches a 3-day Creative Non-Fiction Masterclass at Himalayan Writing Retreat. 4 seats left, early bird ends Aug 25. #WritingCommunity

ONE SPOT LEFT! Alexandra Pringle has edited Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Ann Patchett, George Saunders & Kamila Shamsie. Teaching 5 days in India this September — her first time. Only 1 seat left. $1,200. Apply: link in bio.

Alexandra Pringle has edited Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Ann Patchett, and George Saunders. Teaching in India for the first time this September—for five days. Only 3 of 10 seats left. $1,200. Apply: link in bio.