Writers’ Residency 2026, Bentota, Sri Lanka

In July 2026, Tambapanni Academic Publishers, Colombo in collaboration with the Max Weber Forum, New Delhi is hosting a writers’ residency, ‘History and Fiction, History as Fiction’, on Sri Lanka’s western Indian Ocean coast. The residency will bring together ten writers from a range of disciplines and fields, creative and academic, to discover new ways of writing about their chosen topics, through workshops, mentored sessions, critique and dialogue. The aim is to explore how writing about the past can be made accessible and engage a wide readership, specialist, lay and the curious. A space of cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary conversations, the residency intends to stimulate and encourage discussion and dialogue between the participants and the mentors.

The residency, from 9-15 July 2026, will feature invited speakers (Vajra Chandrasekera, winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction) as well as the writing and workshop sessions, individual mentoring and time to work on projects.

Please refer the project page and application process for details of eligibility and how to apply.