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Sampad, a Birmingham-based organisation promoting south Indian art and culture, is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of  the hugely influential poet Rabindranath Tagore with an international writing competition. The competition is run in partnership with the British Council. Any writer from the age of 8 onwards, with an interest in South Asian Culture, can enter.

More information from the SAMPAD website.  The closing date is 31 January 2012.

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Thanks to the British Council one of my stories has just been published in a dual language English/Chinese anthology called A Little Nest of Pedagogues. My story is a short piece called ‘Stranger’, which originally appeared in New Writing 13 (Picador, 2005); it was subsequently reprinted in a German magazine and now it’s travelling even further afield.

I’m one of ten writers, including Emily Perkins, Kamila Shamsie, Romesh Gunesekera and Fay Weldon, whose work has been translated here. The back cover describes the collection as ‘new writing from established writers and names to watch’. I’m amazed and delighted.