Women Writers Fest, by SheThePeople.TV is a day-long festival that puts the spotlight on authors, writers, bloggers, and editors, featuring firebrand panelists from across genres. Throughout the festival, you’ll be celebrating female creativity and artistic achievements while discovering some of the best contemporary women authors around in India. 

Learn about getting published, marketing your book, the community building, feminist writing, fiction and non-fiction narratives, and more. The fest will provide a forum for women writers from varied fields to come together and discuss issues that are important to the cultural and social fabric of the city of Bengaluru. The diverse range of participants in each panel will make for rich discussions on the city’s cultural heritage, the city influencing fiction, activism in the city, the feminine voice in fiction, spoken word performances and more, and is sure to inspire change. 

Authors joining in for this fab festival are Padma Shri Shashi Deshpande, Shaili Chopra, Vasanthi Hariprakash, Anita Mithra, Kirtana Kumar, Aruna Nambiar, Devi Yashodharan, Sajitha Nair, Preeti Shenoy, Shinie Antony, Mariyam Saigal, Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli, Kiran Manral and more. 

What all can be expected at the event -

-Fireside conversation with Padma Shri Shashi Deshpande on her autobiography 'Listen To Me.

-Challenges Women Writers face.

-The ‘Feminine’ Emotion in Fiction

-Spoken Word on Namma Bengaluru

Event Agenda

Panel 1: Timing: 10.00 am to 10.45 am

Topic: How Green Was Our City: Bengaluru

Moderator: Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran

Speakers: Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli, Manasi Kumar, MB Rajan, Bijal Vachharajani & Jhelum Biswas Bose

Panel 2: Timing: 10.45 am to 11.30 am

Topic: The Power of Women Writing Women: Female Characters

Moderator: Kiran Manral

Speakers: Preeti Shenoy, Shinie Antony, Anuja Chandramouli, Andaleeb Wajid & Jahnavi Barua

Panel 3: 11.30 am to 12.15 pm

Fireside chat: Shashi Deshpande in conversation with Kiran Manral on her autobiography “Listen to Me.”

Panel 4: Timing: 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm

Topic: Bengaluru: The City and its Changing Culture

Moderator: Vani Mahesh

Speakers: Sadiqa Peerbhoy, Lakshmi Sankar, Vasanthi Hariprakash, Anita Mithra, Kirtana Kumar & Usha KR

Lunch break: 1 pm to 2 pm

Panel 5: Timing: 2.00 pm to 2.45 pm, Kubbra Sait in conversation with Kiran Manral 

Panel 6: Timing: 2.45 pm to 3.30 pm

Topic: AMA: How to get published

Speakers: Deepthi Talwar, Ajitha GS, Karthik Venkatesh & Archana Ramachandran

Panel 7: Timing: 3.30 pm to 4.15 pm

Topic: The ‘Feminist’ Perspective in Fiction and Non-Fiction

Moderator: Nandita Bose

Speakers: Aruna Nambiar, Devi Yeshodharan, Sajita Nair, Rachna Singh

Panel 8: Timing: 4.15 pm to 5.00 pm

Topic: Storytellers/ Spoken Word on Namma Bengaluru

Anchor: Ria Das

Speakers: Mariyam Saigal, Nandita Bose, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Supriya Mishra, Sowmya Peri & Asambhava Subha