Upcoming Workshops at the Story Company India - May 2026

Upcoming Workshops for Writers at the Story Company India in May 2026.

This May, The Story Company India brings you three focused, practice-led workshops designed for people who are serious about improving their craft. Not just thinking about writing, but doing the work of writing, shaping, and refining.

We are building a space for writers who want rigour, attention, and honesty in their practice. A destination for those who are ready to take their writing seriously.

Here is what is coming up.

1. The Editor’s Toolkit: Foundations of Editing
With Dr Pallavi Narayan

Most writing workshops teach how to generate writing. Far fewer teach how to revise it. But revision is where writing becomes clear, precise, and publishable.

Across two extended sessions, you will learn:
• the different stages of editing used in publishing
• how editors diagnose structural problems
• strategies for tightening sentences and improving clarity
• how to revise without losing voice

Dates: May 9 and May 10
Time: 11 AM IST
Duration: 2 sessions, 2 hours each
Fee: ₹9,500/-

About the facilitator
Dr Pallavi Narayan has worked with leading publishing houses including Routledge, Pan Macmillan, and Penguin Random House. She has taught writing and editing at universities in India, Singapore, and the United States, and previously served as Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Ahmedabad University. She is the author of Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City and editor of Singapore at Home: Life across Lines.

2. Writing from Life: Listening, Observation, and Story
With Bupinder Singh Bali

Most people say they “write from life.” But life does not arrive as neat scenes. It comes as fragments, overheard conversations, gestures, and emotional residue.

This workshop focuses on the discipline of attention. On learning how to see, listen, and shape lived experience into meaningful narrative.

You will explore:
• how to listen for narrative, not just information
• how to observe without reducing people into stereotype
• how to shape lived experience into scenes
• how to work with voice, ethics, and representation

Participants will leave with a developed short piece grounded in real-world material.

Dates and Timings:
May 15, 8:30 PM
May 17, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
May 17, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Duration: 3 sessions, 1.5 hours each
Fee: ₹4,500/-

About the facilitator
Bupinder Singh Bali is a writer and ethnographer, and the author of Those Who Stayed: The Sikhs of Kashmir. His work has appeared in publications such as The Wire, Outlook, The Week, The India Forum, and platforms of the Columbia School of Journalism. His practice brings together reportage, lived experience, and deep field observation.

3. Start Writing: A Creative Writing Workshop for Beginners
With Kiran Manral

No fluff. No motivational monologue.
You will write. Right there in the session.

This workshop is for beginners, first-time writers, students, and anyone who wants to stop thinking about writing and actually begin.

You will leave with words on the page, and the tools to keep going.

Date: May 16
Time: 11 AM IST
Duration: 2 hours
Fee: ₹3,000/-

Limited seats. Because chaos is best managed in small groups.

About the facilitator
Kiran Manral is an author, speaker, and writing mentor. She has spoken at leading literary festivals including Jaipur Literature Festival, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, and Times Lit Fest, and at institutions such as IITs and IIM Ahmedabad. She is a two-time TEDx speaker, a former mentor with Vital Voices, and has informally mentored many aspiring writers, several of whom are now published authors.

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