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Current Writing News
• Sandhya's short story "Operation Turtle Rescue" will be published in the "Rock the Vote," the Spring 2008 issue of Kahani magazine.
• Sandhya's review of Twist, a collection of yoga poems by Janet Wong appears in the Jan-Feb '08 issue of Yoga Plus Joyful Living.
• Sandhya's blog post "Kaavya Viswanathan: Unconscious Copycat or Plagiarist" will be anthologized in a forthcoming edition of Holt, Rinehart, and Winston's Elements of Literature.
Recent Articles and Reviews
• At her blog Literary Safari, Sandhya interviews two fresh young adult authors, Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and Katherine Applegate, author of Home of the Brave ... and reviews their books.
• Other recent reviews: Marc Foster's film The Kite Runner; the animated film version of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis; Story Corps's Listening is an Act of Love; George O'Connor's graphic novel Journey Into Mohawk Country; Mitali Perkin's Rickshaw Girl; and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Chicken with Plums.
• Read Sandhya's review of Mama's Saris, by Pooja Makhijani in Kahani magazine.
• Peruse "Family Ruminations," a series of personal essays at Literary Safari.
• Travel Notes: "Unwrapping Cheese in India"; "What to Read If You're Planning a Trip to India" (a roundup); a mountain retreat in Imlil, Morocco; the New York Open Center's Meditation Room; a visit to the Hudson Valley's New World Home Cooking.
Special Projects and Publications
• October 2007: Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs. [Read about the origins of this project here.]
• May 2007: Student Writing Showcase, a multimedia website featuring the works of middle and high school writers, audio commentary by award-winning authors including Walter Dean Myers, An Na, Patricia McCormick, Jane Yolen, and Donna Jo Napoli.
• December 2006: Lending a Hand with Revision, a PDF issue of Writing magazine all about the revising process, featuring original manuscripts of Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Blume, as well as a tips, a check list, and more.
Upcoming Events
• March 17, 2008: Sandhya will present her workshop "Flash Memoir: Write Your Life—One Story at a Time" at the Annual Young Authors Conference at Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY. Download the workshop description.
Past Awards & Events
• November 29, 2007: Sandhya was a guest editor at the Young Authors Editing Day Conference on Nov. 29, 2007 at Westchester Boces. She will also be a presenter at the Annual Young Authors Conference on March 17, 2008.
• Writing magazine, which Sandhya edited from April 2004 to May 2007, was a Golden Lamp Award finalist [more] for the 2006 Association of Educational Publishers awards. The publication also received six Distinguished Achievement Award nominations, including "Periodical of the Year." In June of 2007, the magazine won 3 distinguished achievement awards, including one for Sandhya's Interview/Profile—“Meet a Fantasy Legend: Ursula K. LeGuin."
• April 26-29, 2007: Sandhya was a panelist at DesiLit's second annual Kriti Festival in Chicago. [Check out the festival program and panel descriptions here.
• April 20, 2007: Sandhya read her essay "Children of a Coup" at the Asian American Writer's Workshop, NYC. The reading was part of "An Evening of Short Readings to Benefit the South Asian Women's Creative Collective." [Read the essay.]
• March 15, 2007: "What Do You Believe" workshop for Young Authors Conference (BOCES) at Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY. [Download the workshop description.]
• January 31, 2007: "Revise This" workshop for City Year, NYC. [Download the workshop description.]
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