Covert 6 workshops - Speaking on the page with Susmita Bhattacharya

Bring your fiction and poems to life through powerful, authentic dialogue.
Experiment with how conversation creates tension, reveals character and adds rhythm to your writing.

What we will do in the session:
• Craft natural yet purposeful dialogue
• Use voice, subtext and pacing
• Dialogue techniques for poems
• Balance speech with action and imagery

This workshop is part of Covert Literary Magazine Issue 6 is Water/Water in People’s Lives. For this issue, we welcome Guest Editors: Roy McFarlane FRSL, Fawzia Kane, Gemma Weekes, Remi Graves and Alinah Azadeh. The editorial team include: Amy Z. Glass, Claire Jacobs, Zita Holbourne FRSA, Jackie Mendoza, and Pauline Rutter.

Location & Access

This event will be online via Zoom. Captions and transcripts will be activated.

BSL interpreters are available upon request. For any questions or requests, please email access@writingourlegacy.org.uk

Who’s this workshop for?

This workshop is open to everyone

About Susmita Bhattacharya

Susmita Bhattacharya’s novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian) was long-listed at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018. Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing) won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection and was featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She mentors underrepresented writers and is co-founder of the Write Beyond Borders Mentoring Project.

IG: @susmita.b.writer

LinkedIn: Susmita Bhattacharya

Linktr.ee: linktr.ee/susmita_bhattacharya

Funders

The Covert Talent Development Programme is part of our Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation programme.

This issue is part of Downs to the Sea, a three-year nature programme that focuses on recovery and resilience in wetland habitats, led by the South Downs National Park Authority and supported by development funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The programme brings together a partnership comprising the South Downs National Park Trust, South Downs National Park Authority, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Western Sussex Rivers Trust, Brighton and Hove City Council and Writing Our Legacy.

About Covert Literary Magazine

Covert Literary Magazine is a yearly publication of literature and visual art for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse writers and artists of colour. The magazine is based in Brighton, UK and was established in 2020. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms and artwork, with future issues embracing more experimental, journalism and audio visual content. Our aim is to provide a platform for new and underrepresented diverse talent for whom mainstream publishing opportunities are inaccessible, whose work is reviewed, edited and published alongside more established names.