Women Writers Fest Pune by SheThePeople.TV is a day-long festival that puts the spotlight on authors, writers, bloggers, and editors, featuring firebrand panelists from across genres and is held in multiple cities across India. Throughout the festival, you’ll be celebrating female creativity and artistic achievements while discovering some of the best contemporary women authors around in India.

This fest comes to Pune for its third edition in this city this year.

Women Writers Fest Pune 2019 on 21st Dec 2019 | 11:00 am onwards

Sunderban Hotel, Koregaon Park

The fest will provide a forum for women writers from varied fields to come together and discuss issues that are important to the cultural and social fabric of the city of Pune. Women are their scripting their own stories in the entertainment industry. Catch feisty, gutsy women in theatre and films tell us how they are slowly, but surely changing the roles women get to play in the world of theatre and films. Sheetal Menon, Parna Pethe, Rigvedi Mhatre talk about being the change.

Women mean business- a quartet of women entrepreneurs in Pune talk about their journeys, the challenges, struggles, triumphs and the fulfilment that comes from being able to live the life of their dreams. Karen Anand, Nancy Katyal, Shyma Menon and Shruti Mangaaysh give tips to Sudha Menon about surviving in a highly competitive business environment.

A session with popular authors  Yamini Pustake Bhalerao, Sunanda Mehta and Kiran Manral about Writing Not-so-nice-women, The importance of translating regional literature with Archana Pai Kulkarni, Dr. Vijaya Deo, Yojana Yadav, Jayashri Hari Joshi and Sandhya Taksale. The eternal conflict between fiction and non-fiction and Women,Then and Now, and eminent speakers like Lalitha Suhasini, Rochelle Potkar, and many more.

In a leafy lane in Koregaon park, against the backdrop of a heritage hotel, a day-long rendezvous with the written and spoken word.

What all can be expected at the Women Writers Fest Pune 2019

-Women scripting the change in entertainment

-The importance of translations

-The power of women entrepreneurs

-Popular authors and Contemporary Women Writers from Pune

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SheThePeople.TV is India’s biggest storytelling platform for women and inspires new dialogue, exchanges leadership ideas, fosters networking and reinforces the ability of women to contribute to growth. Founder Shaili Chopra says, “We need to celebrate writing across genres, way beyond literature. We have women ahead in screenwriting, short stories, business and entrepreneurship, fiction, environment, some fantastic columnists and more. As part of our effort to do more with writers across India, this is a first of a kind festival that promises to ignite rising minds”