The Flaneuse: Women Walking and Writing the City

ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS SERIES: 
The Bombay Review has been publishing some great writers and poets since 2014, and conducts regular Masterclass sessions for its reading and writing community. TBR has a selection of faculty for different sessions of the Masterclass series, and all of these are conducted by Professors teaching in (or having taught at) MFA Creative Writing degree programs in USA, Australia or UK for more than 5 years.

This Masterclass is in collaboration with Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT)

About Masterclass 6.2.7:

To write about a city, you have to experience it on foot; walk it. In most parts of the world, this can be a complicated affair if you are a woman. Dr Piia, a traveller and experienced travel writer will talk about her cities, her writing, and share practical knowledge, tools, and strategy for better access to and experience of the cities. “You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

• Learn to be aware of the effect of gender in cities  
• Describe vividly, balancing personal experience and detailed observation  
• Write with all five senses 
• The city and you

About the speaker:

Dr. Piia Mustamäki is an academic wanderluster, currently located in Abu Dhabi, where she teaches at New York University’s Writing Program. Originally from Finland, she lived in New York City for two decades and holds a Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Rutgers University. She has travelled in about ninety countries and her travel writing has been published in Punctuate, The Cultureist and Matador Network. Her academic writing has appeared in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Neohelicon. 

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REGISTERATION AND OTHER DETAILS

Registrations will close when spots are filled. First priority will be given to participants who were waitlisted for previous session.

Date of session: 17th September, 2021
Time: 7:30 pm IST to 9:30 pm IST
Duration: 2 hours (The last session had extended due to other factors, and the primary segment of this one will be tightly packed into the duration itself) Please check the meeting link AND your email 30 minutes prior to the session.

Cost | Refund

INR 250
Payment Deadline: 15th September, 2021 (12 Noon IST) or when spots fill.
This fee is non refundable for no-show, or any other reasons other than cancellation from The Bombay Review itself. A video will not be shared post session.

Mode + Details

Via Zoom
Please note: The meeting will be locked once it begins – and late joinees will not be able to attend or claim a refund. Your payment + sign up should be done from your Zoom ID only, and not any other email ID. The link will be sent to the ID that you put in on Instamojo/Payment portal, and which has a Zoom account.  

NOTE: Payment confirmation will be sent by the Payment portal itself: Instamojo/Stripe.
If you receive an email from them (Check other/updates folder as well), your participation is confirmed and details will be sent to you directly. Please don’t email/DM us (The Bombay Review), notifying about the payment or seeking confirmation. If the payment went through, your participation is confirmed.

The link will be shared with you 6-12 hours before session time only. A query prior to that might not be answered due to unavailibility of resource persons (ref: pandemic).

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*This is a learning space and unwarranted communication during session might result in expulsion from the session; apart from seeing comments being moderated.

Previous Masterclasses of 2021

How to submit your writing to literary magazines: By The Bombay Review (Repeat session)

Some reviews of this Masterclass (Session date: 5th September, 2021)

ABOUT THE SESSION: 
The Bombay Review has been publishing some great writers and poets since 2014, and conducts an annual masterclass about ‘Literary Magazine submissions’ based on our experience in the industry. 

This session will discuss:

• Cover letters (Email body)
• Do’s and Don’ts of submissions
• Resources to keep an eye on
• Tailoring each submission
• Finding markets, magazines, and more
• About submissions fees and payments
• Guidelines, magazine familiarity and editorial vision
• Rejections
• Simultaneous submissions, previously published pieces, reprints
• Presentation and design
• Studying sample magazines
• NOTE: It will not discuss the content of your piece itself

People involved with and published by The Bombay Review have had really interesting writing and academic careers! Here is what they have been up to, and why we believe this Masterclass can be helpful to you:

Published in:

Won or been shortlisted for: Pulitzer Award, the International Booker Prize, Pen/Open Book Award, Man Asian Literary Prize, Pen/Hemingway Award, Toto Award, National Book Award, Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, among others.

Published by: Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, , Sahitya Academy, Rupa Publishing House, Aleph Book Review, Katha, Faber and Faber, W. W. Norton and Company, Zubaan, Sahitya Academy, Picador.

Teach or have studied in: University of Oxford, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, Durham University, New York University, University of Toronto, Texas State University, University of Victoria, Kingston University, University of Mumbai, University of Cape Town, Louisiana Tech University, University of Melbourne, Arizona State University, The New School, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Bath, Allen University, Rutgers University, University of East Anglia, University of Delhi, Emory University, The University of Edinburgh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Iowa, Brooklyn College, Queensland University, among many, many more!

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REGISTERATION AND OTHER DETAILS

Registrations will close when spots are filled. First priority will be given to participants who were waitlisted for the earlier session.

Date of session: 11th September, 2021
Time: 7 pm IST to 9 pm IST
Duration: 2 hours (The last session had extended due to other factors, and the primary segment of this one will be tightly packed into the duration itself) Please check the meeting link AND your email 30 minutes prior to the session.

Cost | Refund

INR 500
Payment Deadline: Midnight of 9th September, 2021 (12 am IST)
This fee is non refundable for no-show, or any other reasons other than cancellation from The Bombay Review itself. Unfortunately, a video will not be shared post session.

There is a group discount if 4 people apply together. Please email us with your name plus the names of the people in your group, along with phone numbers. (contact@thebombayreview.com)

Mode + Details

Via Zoom
Please note: The meeting will be locked once it begins – and late joinees will not be able to attend or claim a refund. Your payment + sign up should be done from your Zoom ID only, and not any other email ID. The link will be sent to the ID that you put in on Instamojo/Payment portal, and which has a Zoom account.  Your cameras will have to be switched on, you can prefer to be on mute.

NOTE: Payment confirmation will be sent by the Payment portal itself: Instamojo/Stripe.
If you receive an email from them (Check other/updates folder as well), your participation is confirmed and details will be sent to you directly. Please don’t email/DM us (The Bombay Review), notifying about the payment or seeking confirmation. If the payment went through, your participation is confirmed.

The link will be shared with you 6-12 hours before session time only. A query prior to that might not be answered due to unavailibility of resource persons (ref: pandemic). Please do not email us or DM us asking for the link.

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*This is a learning space and unwarranted communication during session might result in expulsion from the session; apart from seeing comments being moderated.

Previous Masterclasses of 2021