Short Story September Festival

Saturday 25 September | 10.30am-6.30 pm In this session I talked about the craft of short story writing and the process of putting together my collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness, which will be published by Dahlia Books in October.

Jericho Writers Summer Festival of Writing

June-August ’21 Write a Poem From Scratch with Reshma Ruia Tuesday 20 July | 7:00 pm BST / 2:00 pm ET In this interactive session, Reshma Ruia went beyond the technicalities of structure and syntax and talked about the joy one can find in using everyday language to...

Virtual Writers Weekend

Sunday 27 June 2:15-3:15 pm Multi-Cultural Storytelling This one-hour talk focused on writing about various cultures and different genders with empathy and sensitivity. Reshma drew upon her own writing and gave other examples to show how a writer can use his or her...

The Stay At Home! Literary Festival

Saturday 8 May 3:00-4:00 pm Delighted to be discussing truth and stereotypes in Asian writing with my fellow Whole Kahani writers at the Stay at Home! Literary Festival. Here is the link to our lively discussion about being BAME and writing beyond and across a...