Looking forward to Gold Coast, Australia and the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT) annual gathering. Program schedule: http://apwriters.org/gold-coast-program/

Five poetic pickings from the year by MintLounge. (Paper Asylum on Amazon India)  

My interview in Firstpost. Click to read.

In which the dynamic poet Kate Rogers reviews my books at Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Thank you for such an engaging review. (Books on Amazon India.) Click to read: https://chajournal.blog/2018/11/24/rochelle-potkar/

Today as I leave for Ahmadabad’s Int’l Literature Festival, Chair Poetry Evenings will showcase ‘Skirt’ in its receptive poetic environment. How I miss Kolkata right now. Sarabjeet and Sonnet, cheers. https://www.chairpoetryevenings.org/skirt-by-philippa-collie-cousins-poem-by-rochelle-potkar.html

Chair Poetry Evenings’ inaugural year has unfurled and it’s exciting to see poets from Macedonia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Slovenia and India. I hope friends in Kolkata are attending. My write up in the Kathmandu Tribune – ‘When a curious young Indian poet gypsies around the world, he brings along the idea of a…

Happy to be awarded a place in Hong Kong’s International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2018 “Mingled Voices 3” for my poem ‘Amber’.   Can’t wait to read the other poems. Proverse

#AILF2018 gives platform to the Award Distribution Function of ‘The Great Indian Poetry Contest’ by On Fire Cultural Movement, Fouqia Wajid & team.   So looking forward to Ahmedabad, the ceremony, and reading my poem ‘War specials’ there!   Who’s meeting me #rochellepotkar on 25th November?

My speculative story ‘Eternal Swirl’ too features in this splendid anthology, edited by Rajat Chaudhuri. Series editor: Zafar Anjum. Order your copy today! Click here for link.

So my poetry book ‘Four Degrees of Separation’ has been longlisted for the Cochin Lit Fest Poetry Prize 2018. Glazed & Amazed! In case you haven’t read the book, here’s the link: https://goo.gl/Bhfc9F