Gujarat Literature Festival is back with its second edition with Alembic and this time it is going to happen with four very interesting themes. Date: 18-19-20 January
Key Highlights of this season:
– First edition of Indian Screenwriting Festival to be held
– The second edition of GLF Awards for various pursuits of Gujarat’s publishing industry and creative writing
– Fountainhead A festival within a festival – dedicated to sessions in nonGujarati languages – English, Hindi, Marathi etc
– Tabariya- Children’s Literature Festival Calling entries for a workshop of children in the age group of 10-14 years who would like to learn how to write a book.
– A unique venue to be launched – Museum Square is a century-old and unique industrial heritage site being developed for Vadodara.
GLF also promises to feature the who’s who of Gujarati literary world, GLF will bring to Vadodara some of the bestselling national authors, leading screenwriters from the Hindi Film Industry and performers for evening entertainment events.
The Screenwriters Association of India (SWA) which is the apex body of screenwriting in India and GLF have together designed and curated the first of its kind ‘Indian Screenwriting Festival’ celebrating a wide range of writers, lyricists, directors and bringing them to Vadodara to discuss different currents of film, TV series and Web series writing and story-telling.
Screen Writers like Bhavani Iyer, Jyoti Kapoor, Bhavesh Mandalia, Niren Bhatt, Sumit Arora, Sriram Raghvan, Ishita Moitra, Hardik Mehta, Anjum Rajabali, Robin Bhatt. Started in Season 5 at Ahmedabad, GLF Awards are a unique set of recognition for several nuanced aspects of literature world that have never before been formally awarded. In addition to the above, GLF will host multiple workshops.
