Our programs strive to build a creative writing culture among the social margins and to integrate marginalized thoughts and voices in public dialogues.

 

Writing Out: A Poetry Workshop Series
A twenty session poetry-writing workshop on identity for adolescents.

Khola Baksho: Youth Literary Journal
A youth-run annual journal of literature and experimental journalism by youth.

Footpath Poetry
A poetry campaign exhibiting marginalized writer’s poems along tea-stalls and popular coffee-houses in Caclutta.

Peer Poetry Workshops
Creative  writing workshops, conducted by Kalam Youth Staff, for peers in their own communities.

Writers’ Dialogues
Exchanges and Interactions between established literary artists/educators and young writers living on the margins.

Ink-tersect: Writers’ and Mentors’ Intensive
A creative writing intensive brining together American graduate students, Kolkata undergraduates, and underprivileged youth in Kolkata  on the common ground of poetry and prose.