Call for Applications (CfA): Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency: History and Fiction, History as Fiction [Closing date: 31 January 2026]

In July 2026, Tambapanni Academic Publishers, Colombo in collaboration with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi is hosting a writers’ residency, ‘History and Fiction, History as Fiction’, on Sri Lanka’s western Indian Ocean coast. The residency will bring together ten writers from a range of disciplines and fields, creative and academic, to discover new ways of writing about their chosen topics, through workshops, mentored sessions, critique and dialogue. The aim is to exp...