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  video Januli Bandara is the founder of The Literary Lounge (a book club) and The Literary Gazette (a literary and arts magazine). She works as an SEO content writer for Australian clients while managing monthly book club events, and spends her free time reading, drawing, working out, and staying active with her favorite playlists.

  episode 02 Eric Tinsay VALLES has published the poetry collections A World in Transit and After the Fall: dirges among ruins in English and Spanish translation as well as co-edited Get Lucky: An Anthology of Singapore and Philippine Writings , Sg Poems 2015-2016, Anima Methodi, The Nature of Poetry, The Atelier of Healing, A Given Grace and Finding God in All Things. He has won a Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing prize as well as the Illumination, ELit and Catholic Media Book Awards. He has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne and Oxford Universities. He is a director of Poetry Festival (Singapore).

 episode 01 GUEST Sachinthani Ketakumbura is the Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Gazette. She is currently a third-year student at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, studying International Studies. She has experience in editing, content writing, and journalism through her previous work. Apart from the magazine, she is also the Co-Founder and Co-President of Poe3LK, a growing poetry network based in Sri Lanka. She is actively involved in various other creative and community initiatives as well.

 episode  3 video Part 1 Part 2 Dr. Aparna Salvi Nagda is a consulting homeopath by profession and writer by passion. She earns her bread and butter through medical practice in Mumbai. Her short stories have won a place in around ten anthologies, while her blogs have found a home on websites like Mompresso, Youth Ki Awaz, The She Saga, WomensWeb and also the The Times Of India Readers blog. The Labyrinth Of Silence is her first full-length novel published by Vishwakarma Publications. Previously, she has self-published a novella called Not So Grave on Kindle and also has been a part of a short story collection La Javvaab Pizza published by Vishwakarma Publications.  She wishes to write till the last drop of ink in her pen and her last breath.

  episode 2 video PART 1 PART 2 Sreya Sarkar is a public policy analyst, journalist, and author. She did her undergraduate studies in Political Science at Kolkata’s Presidency College and post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. After a short stint in The Times of India and as a college lecturer in Kolkata, she set off to the US for her second Master’s in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She worked in public policy research and advocacy in U.S. think tanks and non-profits such as Cascade Policy Institute and Heartland Institute before turning into a freelance writer with her fingers dipped in multiple fiction and non-fiction projects. She contributes political and social articles for Indian and U.S. news magazines like The Wire, Scroll, Karvaan India, and American Kahani. She writes columns on Indian American issues for The Quint and Dainik Bhaskar. Her short stories have been published in Indian literary magazines including...

 Episode 1 Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries and two-time #1 Ranked Best Selling Amazon Authors. Reared and raised in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite genres. Both writers write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. Chyrel and Lyris both were Pushcart Nominees in 2021-Poem Love Unspoken, Heartbeats Anthology and 2023, Poem- No Justice for Breonna, Published in Social Justice Inks Anthology. This edgy writing duo is featured in numerous poetry anthologies, Literary Journals, and International Global Magazines. Chyrel and Lyris have published SistersRoc’N’Rhyme Presents Poems in the Key of Life, Mirrored Images and Different Sides of the Same Coin. You will find them always writing. Creating written legacies one book at a time. These two writers have found their voice and can be found on Sistersrocnrhyme.com. VIDEO PART 1 PART 2