[Reader-list] Navayana Fellowships for Diversity in Publishing

[Navayana Publishing]

*Avarna *
Navayana Fellowships For Diversity in Publishing

Navayana, award-winning publisher on anticaste issues, seeks to facilitate
the training of five dalits/adivasis through the PG Certificate Course in
Editing and Publishing conducted by the School of Cultural Texts and Records
(SCTR), Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Known as Edit-Pub, this four-month
self-financed course, in its fourth year now, has had a successful rate of
placement (75 percent) in the publishing industry.

Navayana's Avarna program will be a pioneering initiative towards ensuring
editorial diversity in the publishing industry in India.

Dalit and adivasi applicants, below 35 years of age, must email their CVs
along with a 300-word note on their interest in books and why they wish to
pursue a career in publishing to avarna.navayana at gmail.com before 28
November 2008. Ten short-listed applicants have to appear for a screening
test on 22 December 2008 in Kolkata. Candidates from outside Kolkata will be
provided return train fare
(second class) to attend the test.

Five of these candidates, selected by SCTR for the Navayana Fellowship, will
each receive a stipend of Rs 5,000 per month. Navayana will cover the course
fees. Navayana will also make efforts to ensure the placement of successful
candidates
in mainstream/alternative publishing houses.

Course period: January–April 2009.

For more details www.navayana.org or editpub.blogspot.com

Applications can also be posted to Navayana, E-92, 2nd Floor, Saket, New
Delhi–17