Creative Writing Graduate Student Anindit Dutta Selected for Tin House Autumn Workshop

Established in 2003 with its flagship summer conference, the Tin House Workshop is a premier creative writing program offering in-person and online classes, seminars, and residencies in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. With its commitment to providing writers with high-quality opportunities to develop their craft, alums include Rob Colgate, Reena Shah, Nic Ansett, Uche Okonkwo, and UGA Creative Writing Graduate student, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin.

With support from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Dutta will be working with Megan Giddings, whose novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine’s 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR’s best books of 2020, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022), was named one of The Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture’s Best Fantasy books of 2022, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. 

Anindit Dutta is a fiction writer from Guwahati who is currently working on a book-length project that explores the rural river islands in Assam facing environmental and political consequences through a cohesive interface of folklore and realism. He graduated from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin and has edited fiction at the Bat City Review. 

Participating in the Tin House Autumn Workshop is a significant opportunity for Dutta to receive personalized mentorship, engage with a diverse community of eminent writers, and refine his craft in an intensive publishing-driven environment.

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