IN CONVERSATION WITH SUNNY SINGH
Thursday 18th June 7-9pm,
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
£5/ free for BSU staff and students.
The Bath Spa University Creative Writing Research Centre is proud to present 'In Conversation with Sunny Singh.'
Professor Sunny Singh will be in conversation with Professor Lucy English about her writing, The Jhalak Foundation and her activism.
Sunny Singh is a writer, novelist, public intellectual, and a champion for decolonisation across all aspects of society.
She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Hotel Arcadia, With Krishna’s Eyes, and Nani’s Book of Suicides and three nonfiction books including A Bollywood State of Mind: A Journey in the World’s Biggest Cinema, a groundbreaking study of Amitabh Bachchan for the BFI’s Film Star series, and the bestselling Single in the City: The Independent Woman’s Handbook, on lives of single women in India, and the recent A Bollywood State of Mind: A Journey into the World’s Biggest Cinema, shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Her collection of short stories titled Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) was published in August 2025.
In 2017, she launched the celebrated Jhalak Prize for literature which now includes awards for Children’s & Young Adult, Poetry and Prose. She is the publisher of the bi-annual Jhalak Review, an international literary magazine for and by authors of the global majority. She is also a founder of the Jhalak Foundation, which focuses on a range of literary, artistic and literacy initiatives in the UK and beyond.
Sunny lives in London where she is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University.
