Almost Island is a space for literature that threatens, confronts, or bypasses the marketplace. Founded by prose writer Sharmistha Mohanty, the space began with this online journal, then expanded to an international writers dialogue, held every year in New Delhi. It hopes to extend and widen this space even further in the near future, in new ways. Almost Island believes that geography lends a direction to writing, without limiting it. India is where it is based, and it is committed to the multiple inheritances alive here, and equally seeks that which is vital in literature anywhere in the world.

Editor

Sharmistha Mohanty

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fictional prose, Book One, New Life, and the forthcoming Sub-continent.
A long excerpt from New Life can be found at Inertia Magazine.
She has translated a selection of Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, titled Broken Nest and Other Stories.
Mohanty is on the international faculty of the Creative Writing MFA programme at the City University of Hong Kong.

Mohanty's work has appeared in journals and magazines in India, U.S.A., U.K., and France. She has held a fellowship at Germany's Akademie Schloss Solitude, as well as in France and the U.S.A., most recently at Yaddo.