The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the literary community of Ladakh at large.
We hope to, within our means, contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on.
residency
The reading period is currently OPEN for our third season until the 7th of May. The tentative dates for this season are July 1st to July 14th, 2026.
Final Judge: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
guidelines
Poets applying must not have published a full-length book. Self-published books are fine. Work translated into English is fine. At this point of time we can only offer the residency to Indian poets based in India (meaning they live in India). Non-Indian poets who are based in India for the foreseeable future are welcome to apply.
There is no specific age-limit.
Please email us anything between 6-10 poems with your contact details in the body of the mail and attach a single file of poems in regular font (unless your work/context demands that it be stylized a particular way) with no identifying markers, such as name etc. – the submissions will be read blind.
If you have any questions please reach out to us over message or email at aranyerfoundation@gmail.com / aranyerpoetryresidency@gmail.com
The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the literary community of Ladakh at large.
We hope to, within our means, contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on.
residency
The reading period is currently OPEN for our third season until the 7th of May. The tentative dates for this season are July 1st to July 14th, 2026.
Final Judge: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
guidelines
Poets applying must not have published a full-length book. Self-published books are fine. Work translated into English is fine. At this point of time we can only offer the residency to Indian poets based in India (meaning they live in India). Non-Indian poets who are based in India for the foreseeable future are welcome to apply.
There is no specific age-limit.
Please email us anything between 6-10 poems with your contact details in the body of the mail and attach a single file of poems in regular font (unless your work/context demands that it be stylized a particular way) with no identifying markers, such as name etc. – the submissions will be read blind.
If you have any questions please reach out to us over message or email at
aranyerfoundation@gmail.com / aranyerpoetryresidency@gmail.com
The residency hopes to provide poets with a space for poetry – what poetry might mean, and not merely the intended act or writing of it, but all the ineffable which exists already, also what we might feebly call ‘process’. Resident poets are free to utilize their time here the way they see fit. Each resident poet is fully covered, meaning their domestic travel, accommodation, and meals, and they are also offered a gestural stipend of 10K INR each.
Because of its location, surrounded by Ladakh’s incomparable and often hard-fought beauty, it’s also not a traditional residency in any sense of the word.
The residency is also meant to try and create cross-cultural transferences between incoming poets and the literary community of Ladakh at large.
We hope to, within our means, contribute to a culture where the belief that, to borrow from Bolaño, “only poetry isn’t shit” is preserved; and again, we hope that it becomes a meeting point for it and sticks to the bare essentials any poet starting out can fall back on.
residency
The reading period is currently OPEN for our third season until the 7th of May. The tentative dates for this season are July 1st to July 14th, 2026.
Final Judge: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
guidelines
Poets applying must not have published a full-length book. Self-published books are fine. Work translated into English is fine. At this point of time we can only offer the residency to Indian poets based in India (meaning they live in India). Non-Indian poets who are based in India for the foreseeable future are welcome to apply.
There is no specific age-limit.
Please email us anything between 6-10 poems with your contact details in the body of the mail and attach a single file of poems in regular font (unless your work/context demands that it be stylized a particular way) with no identifying markers, such as name etc. – the submissions will be read blind.
If you have any questions please reach out to us over message or email at
aranyerfoundation@gmail.com / aranyerpoetryresidency@gmail.com