Bangalore-bound this week for the alèy litfest at MAHE:

On ebbs, flows and making space for the mysterious: www.instagram.com/p/DM-gkdTSlo... #cambodia #writersandartists #mermaids

Spotted in Siem Reap: Sovann Macha, one of my favourite mermaids and a star of my graphic novel #IncantationsOverWater, along with her lover Hanuman!

#poetry Bluesky, assemble!

I recall being floored by a prose poem called "Husband" many years ago, and I want to read it again. It was by an Asian-American writer, possibly queer. Can you help me find it, please?

"Benediction for the Feast" by @sharanyamanivannan.bsky.social appears in a Feast-themed portfolio in our latest issue, which celebrates our digital Fusion series. Get the new issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer...

Aiiiiii look at this beauty!!! 📚💙

ANNOUNCEMENT!: I've been waiting over 3 years to be able to tell you that #MermaidsInTheMoonlight, the little book I drew and wrote and published in the first year of the pandemic is now back in print. This piece of my💙 has had a tumultuous journey, as have I. I'm grateful she's back.

Full moon tonight. As good a time as any to read this, if you'd like to and haven't already. 🎑

Full moon tonight. As good a time as any to read this, if you'd like to and haven't already. 🎑

A lovely and visceral lunar exploration by Sharanya Manivannan.

NEW WORK: A personal essay and artwork on the subject of moonlight. Out now in Dark 'n' Light. darknlight.com/projects/per...

I really wish the Indian government would make the burning of rubbish punishable by law.

Eid Mubarak. May Palestine be free. 🍉

Good morning to all who giggled at today's Wordle.

A gentle note that before you roll your eyes at posts on how it will soon be 5 years since the pandemic began in India (and elsewhere), some of our lives altered irrevocably from 2020 on, some of us have yet to recover, if we ever can. It is not just the years we are counting.

A gentle note that before you roll your eyes at posts on how it will soon be 5 years since the pandemic began in India (and elsewhere), some of our lives altered irrevocably from 2020 on, some of us have yet to recover, if we ever can. It is not just the years we are counting.

I did a live radio interview on Yes 101 in Sri Lanka last week, and here's a snippet that involved a provocative question! 😜 www.instagram.com/reel/DGDNvtd...

From my trip to the island earlier this month: Seeds of Solidarity is a Sri Lankan organization that raises funds and awareness for and about Palestine. www.instagram.com/p/DGLB7cXy5V...

I had the privilege (and pleasure) of reading and blurbing Jayasree Kalathil's English translation of Jissa Jose's Malayalam novel "Mudritha" last year. Out now from HarperCollins India. #books #translation

I did a live radio interview on Yes 101 in Sri Lanka last week, and here's a snippet that involved a provocative question! 😜 www.instagram.com/reel/DGDNvtd...

What. A. Moment! This gifted reader had hand-embroidered my illustration of Ila the mermaid within the island of Ilankai, which is on the cover of my graphic novel "Incantations Over Water". I gasped! What an incredible encounter at the Galle Literary Festival, and so very moving. 🥹💖

What. A. Moment! This gifted reader had hand-embroidered my illustration of Ila the mermaid within the island of Ilankai, which is on the cover of my graphic novel "Incantations Over Water". I gasped! What an incredible encounter at the Galle Literary Festival, and so very moving. 🥹💖

It's good to be in Galle (and back on the island ❤️)! I'm excited about participating in the 2025 Galle Literary Festival, where I will be on three panels about diversity, lyricism and working across genres and mediums.

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I loved season 1 of "Mo" by Mohammed Amer, but watching season 2 now - considering the events since Oct 2023 - was another level of poignant. I wept. I laughed out loud. If you also have the privilege of a Netflix account, please watch it. May Palestine and Palestinians be free.

Feel good story (hopefully true). www.msn.com/en-in/news/I...

Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist. This is a long read, and may be difficult. archive.ph/2n1F6

We are hiring! For details of job & application process click here: shorturl.at/cU6QI #Amplify #ReShare #RePost

ICYMI during the busy end of the year - I had a new short story, "The Heart Has No Shape The Hands Can't Take", published recently. I hope you'll enjoy it. openthemagazine.com/cover-storie...

ICYMI during the busy end of the year - I had a new short story, "The Heart Has No Shape The Hands Can't Take", published recently. I hope you'll enjoy it. openthemagazine.com/cover-storie...

Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.

Glad to have new fiction published after ages! "The Heart Has No Shape The Hands Can't Take" was in my drafts for 6-7 years, and was completed due to the motivation of a deadline. I hope I receive more commissions for stories and essays. openthemagazine.com/cover-storie...

The Indian Ocean tsunami of exactly 20 years ago plays a significant role in my graphic novel #IncantationsOverWater. It lingers profoundly in the consciousness of my mermaid narrator, Ila. Shared to honour the deceased & those who lost them, those who survived & - as ever - in reverence of Nature.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of exactly 20 years ago plays a significant role in my graphic novel #IncantationsOverWater. It lingers profoundly in the consciousness of my mermaid narrator, Ila. Shared to honour the deceased & those who lost them, those who survived & - as ever - in reverence of Nature.

Glad to have new fiction published after ages! "The Heart Has No Shape The Hands Can't Take" was in my drafts for 6-7 years, and was completed due to the motivation of a deadline. I hope I receive more commissions for stories and essays. openthemagazine.com/cover-storie...

Literary publishing in India doesn't bring in an income. Not for writers, anyway. I make a living crafting all kinds of English language content, and have 20+ years experience in journalism, advertising, PR, editing & ghostwriting. I'm eager to find more work. www.linkedin.com/in/sharanya-...

Every time a researcher writes to me for insights because they read a long article I did on oppari & gaana for Motherland Magazine in 2012, I tell them how much I hated the way it was edited for publication. It happens strangely often. The long life of a piece I'd rather forget.

Blocked my first H*ndutva nationalist on Bluesky. They're here. Sigh.

Literary publishing in India doesn't bring in an income. Not for writers, anyway. I make a living crafting all kinds of English language content, and have 20+ years experience in journalism, advertising, PR, editing & ghostwriting. I'm eager to find more work. www.linkedin.com/in/sharanya-...

Saw a hack somewhere yesterday on reducing AI usage - which adds to your carbon footprint - while looking things up on Google by adding "-AI" after search terms. It works. (Except for some reason it doesn't work when you Google "AI bad for environment -AI".)

Who else saw a merlion and a mermaid tail right away in today's Google Doodle (and didn't register the chess aspect at all, until clicking to learn more)?

Such an important conversation - @karunaparikh.bsky.social, currently undergoing cancer treatment - is so generous about what she has been learning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lc...

The Know Your Neighbourhood (KYNhood) hyperlocal app got in touch with me for a short chat on writing. I was glad to talk to Ganapathy Parameswaran on creativity, dry spells and on how Chennai has been an interesting muse for my work. You can read the interview here: www.kynhood.com/blog/671b64b...

Why does my Bluesky profile say "invalid handle"?

Saw a hack somewhere yesterday on reducing AI usage - which adds to your carbon footprint - while looking things up on Google by adding "-AI" after search terms. It works. (Except for some reason it doesn't work when you Google "AI bad for environment -AI".)

Someone plagiarized a newspaper review of one of my books, presumably ran it through an AI translator, passed it off as their own review in another language & had the nerve to send a collaboration post request for the same. Literature is dying in India, but Bookstascams are not.

The Know Your Neighbourhood (KYNhood) hyperlocal app got in touch with me for a short chat on writing. I was glad to talk to Ganapathy Parameswaran on creativity, dry spells and on how Chennai has been an interesting muse for my work. You can read the interview here: www.kynhood.com/blog/671b64b...

Is there any reason to keep email notifications of UPI/card transactions, or is it okay to declutter these? (India)

I wish anthology and magazine editors would solicit my prose - stories and essays - and not poetry - which I barely, rarely write at all.