Avarna
Navayana Fellowships For Diversity in Publishing
Navayana, award-winning publisher on anticaste issues, seeks to facilitate the training of five dalits/adivasis through the PG Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing conducted by the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Known as Edit-Pub, this four-month self-financed course, in its fourth year now, has had a successful rate of placement (75 percent) in the publishing industry.
Navayana's Avarna program will be a pioneering initiative towards ensuring editorial diversity in the publishing industry in India.
Dalit and adivasi applicants, below 35 years of age, must email their CVs along with a 300-word note on their interest in books and why they wish to pursue a career in publishing to avarna....@gmail.com before 28 November 2008. Ten short-listed applicants have to appear for a screening test on 22 December 2008 in Kolkata. Candidates from outside Kolkata will be provided return train fare
(second class) to attend the test.
Five of these candidates, selected by SCTR for the Navayana Fellowship, will each receive a stipend of Rs 5,000 per month. Navayana will cover the course fees. Navayana will also make efforts to ensure the placement of successful candidates
in mainstream/alternative publishing houses.
Course period: January–April 2009.
For more details www.navayana.org or editpub.blogspot.com
Applications can also be posted to Navayana, E-92, 2nd Floor, Saket, New Delhi–17
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Shivnarayan Gour
Post Box No. 562
Bhopal 462016
email:
shivnar...@gmail.com
www.khetkhaliyan.blogspot.comMo. 094254 33229
