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Prize-winning poet, author, screenwriter, Mumbai.Alumna of - Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015)Charles Wallace Writer’s Fellowship (2017)Indo-Danish Kurindan International Writer’s Residency (2024)Author of -Four Degrees of Separation (poetry)Paper Asylum (haibun) - shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020Bombay Hangovers (short story collection)Coins in Rivers (poetry)Poetry/Story nominations-Poem The girl from Lal Bazaar, shortlisted for the Gregory O' Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018; Place, an honorable mention at Asian Cha’s Auditory Cortex; Skirt, poetry film by Philippa Collie Cousins for the Visible Poetry Project; To Daraza won the 2018 Norton Girault Literary Prize; War Specials, 1st Runner up at The Great Indian Poetry Contest 2018; Amber, won a place in Hongkong's Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 Anthology. Winner of the 2016 Open Road Review contest for The leaves of the deodar, Story Chit Mahal appeared in The Best of Asian Short Stories, Kitaab International,‘Parfum’ - notable entry at the DISQUIET International Literary prize, Lisbon. Bestowed with an honorary Doctorate in Literature from Sankskriti University, Mathura by ex-President Mr. Ram Nath Kovind.Her manuscript Coins in Rivers (Hachette India) was longlisted at the Eyewear Publishing, Beverly Prize Poetry Book Award UK 2019, and shortlisted at the 2nd Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize 2019, NY.She has read her poetry at festivals in India, Bali, Iowa, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Hungary, Ukraine, Hungary, Iowa, Dubai, and the Gold Coast. Creative-writing mentor -Online poetry workshops at Himalayan Writing RetreatPanchgani Writer's RetreatIowa’s International Writing Programs: Summer Institute 2019 and Between the Lines 2022, 2023, 2024Screen-related -A Brown Coat, feature-length screenplay was NFDC‘s Screenwriters Lab 2018 selection and a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival 2020. Her 6th screenplay - selected for the Writers INK Screenwriting Lab 2022-23. Her 9th screenplay - selected for the Rewrite 2.0 Screenwriting Retreat Jaipur. Short film script 'Catharsis' - shortlisted at the 2023 International Literary Prize by Hammond House, UK.Short film script ‘Salad’ on the Selected List, Mumbai Indie Film Society competition 2024.Catharsis/Drama Queens won Best Writer prize from Prakriti Foundation, Chennai for the Short+Sweet South India 2024 Theatre Festival. She has developed a few feature scripts across genres and seeks directors, producers, and actors. Some are under active evaluation of production.
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Coins In Rivers (Poetry Book)Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd Apr 2024 - Present
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Bombay Hangovers (A New Short Story Collection)Vishwakarma Publications Feb 2021 - PresentPune, Maharashtra, IndiaDO READ. DO REVIEW.16 immersive, entertaining short stories about characters across caste, class, and religion in Bombay. Some of the stories nominated for prizes: Fundação Oriente Short Story Competition, 2015 (shortlist); Open Road Review 2016 (winner); DNA-Out of Print Contest 2017 (longlist), and DISQUIET International Literary prize, Lisbon 2019 (notable entry).These stories are laced with the grit, sleaze and dynamism of Bombay. They explore the nerve centre of a great metropolis with caustic wit and uncompromising realism. From the red-light corner of Kamathipura and the race course of Mahalaxmi, from South Bombay where a perfume maker works on exotic fragrances to the throbbing epicentre of Thana and the township of Kalyan, from Bandra to Andheri, the city is brought alive through memorable characters, piquant situations and no holds barred language. With the occasional foray into Goa, the poet Rochelle Potkar makes an impressive debut in short fiction, a genre unfairly neglected by most publishers in India.--Manohar Shetty -
Fiction Writer And PoetSelf Employed Apr 2007 - PresentMumbai Area, India
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Paper AsylumCopper Coin Publishing Private Limited May 2018 - PresentIndiaShortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020.“Rochelle has the haibuneer’s gift of vivid succinctness: ‘Manojji is a curious man. His eyes and ears are always shifting.’ The author could be describing herself, who and what she is—her senses alive, feeding on each other, wanting nothing more than to capture our world in the honey-trap of words, a world that is slipping away from us: autumn whirlwind . . . / a child grabs at her / candy floss.” Gabriel Rosenstock“There is something very unique about Paper Asylum that continues to draw you in. . . . Some of the haiku in this collection would be standouts on their own, but when combined with her fine-toned prose they just sing the haibun form. . . . A wonderful read indeed!” Michael Rehling“Rochelle Potkar is the ideal travel companion—adaptive, incisive, witty—and in Paper Asylum she invites us to pay closer attention to our surroundings, with delightful results.” Christopher Merrill -
Writing FellowCharles Wallace India Trust Feb 2017 - PresentStirling, ScotlandI will be devoting time to writing, and engaging with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Centre of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
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Four Degrees Of SeparationPaperwall Media Mar 2016 - PresentMumbai Area, IndiaA first book of 60 free verse poems.Blurb:Potkar speaks with the cutting clarity of a woman wholly engaged with the world. She writes from the gilded moment vulnerability becomes knowledge, and then when knowledge becomes wisdom. The result, in all cases, is the poem: clever and crafted to a kind of broken perfection—the cracks show, but the shattered places are dusted with powdered gold. “If a day is a life, a word is a story,” Potkar writes. Her poetry condenses life into a gilded day, a story into a single word, as only a masterful poet can do it, or a woman can feel it. Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta Four degrees of separation is a book to be opened like pulling down the covers of a lovers’ bed, pages of poems like sheets to be inhaled, scents that will invade dreams. Jaguars stalk through these poems; mangoes, the sweet, salty vinegar of bodies in love, bodies falling out of love--and the city of Bombay too is omnipresent, ripe with cats and blossoms, heaps of saris, “anklets clinking to camel bells.” This book is a conversation, an invitation to heed the advice of a wise grandmother, who says, “Don’t love a man more than he knows what to do with it/like chocolate over a child’s face/or a small body in a large shirt….love him a little less/So he comes, wagging his desires.” This book is also a cry of lament to a grandmother who “cherished sons over daughters.” The tangles of lovers, of love lost, and of family relationships, all fuel these poems. We are all connected, for better and for worse, these poems insist, as an aunt “searched for zeros in every person/like ingredients in a soup.” “A grudge is a wound that never seeks healing,” writes Potkar in one of the many wise observations guiding this collection, where even amidst the chaos of life and love, “every tree holds the silence of the earth/under its armpits.” Rachel Rose[This book is available on Amazon India and Paperwall.in]
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The Arithmetic Of Breasts And Other StoriesA Book Of Short Stories Apr 2015 - PresentFlipart, AmazonThis cluster of 7½ literary short stories presents to you the romantic-sexual facets of: Narain who lusts for Munika, hypnotized by her bosom in The Arithmetic of Breasts, and old Jaganlal who wants a favour from young Dia in The Room with a Sea-view. Jackie who is in love with Nic in Sky Park, and the surgeon in Dr. Love who is changing much more than Sneha’s hairline, nose, lip and chin. Shonali and Neel who are realizing that infidelity might not be such an easy thing in The Scent of a Conscience, and a woman who walks the tight rope between tradition and sexual exploitation in A place they call Scary. And, Sunil who meets the woman of his desires in What Men Want through an adult dating site. Through these stories, Rochelle Potkar explores the intensely personal ‘unrelationship’ that exists alongside its conventional and socially articulate twin, the relationship.
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Dreams Of Déjà VuA Novel Apr 2015 - PresentIndiaAll is not well at Lovely Sadan. Nathan, growing up in a dysfunctional family, has a breakdown at 14 when his mother dies. Three alter egos help him cope with his lonely and battered childhood. His real-fantasy life with Leonara comes to a halt when we meet him next in a hospital. A few years later, at art school, he is declared a genius. His paintings have become the talk of the town. His powers of mind allow him to enter his subject’s body, living their lives in flesh and blood. When nightmares of his mother’s death haunt him, Nathan decides to use his special skill of getting the consciousness of his childhood friends into his mind. With his musician mate Chuck, Nathan draws Leonara into his mind-milieu, where we enter a mind-bending fantasy world with Mihir, Firoz, and others. Is Nathan doomed in his love for Leonara? Or is he doomed by the need for his alter ego – Larz, who once dismissed from his mind, is living the life of a sensuous woman in Leonara’s body, loved and craved for beyond her wildest imagination? Will her need to feel the warm touch of David – Leonara’s husband - on her skin, be Nathan’s undoing? Or will Dr Oak, his caring psychiatrist, help him survive? Meet the hitmen – mind magicians - Raj and Ned, hired by Larz to eliminate Nathan, thereby ensuring her survival. They’ve already entered Nathan’s mind-milieu in an attempt to shut down his mind. Witness Nathan’s will to survive. Witness his battle against the demons out to get him. Will he triumph? Will there be love at the end?Part fantasy-fiction, part-romance, part-thriller, Dreams of Déjà Vu reels the real trauma of a disturbed childhood in language glowing with intelligence, invention, and nail-biting suspense.
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Rochelle Potkar's current role is Author of 4 books, Prize-winning Poet, Screenwriter (of spec. screenplays).
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Rochelle Potkar attended Wigan & Leigh College, Mumbai, La Trobe University.
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Rochelle Potkar's colleagues are Anupama Manral, Kundan Kumar, Rosemary Marandi, Shikha Akhilesh Saxena, Eoin Redahan, Subhadip Das, Sanya Verma.
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