Divya Ghelani
Divya Ghelani
Divya Ghelani was born in Gujarat and grew up in Loughborough, Leicestershire. She currently lives between Berlin and the UK. Ghelani holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Literary Studies from the University of Hong Kong and is currently a CHASE-funded PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has published stories and articles in Wasafiri Magazine, Comma Press, BBC Radio 4, Litro Magazine, and more. Divya has led creative writing workshops for The Reader Berlin, Writing East Midlands, The Word Factory, and Comma Press, among others.
About NIGHT SCHOOL
NIGHT SCHOOL was the recipient of a Writing East Midlands Mentorship, a Literary Consultancy Mentorship, and an Arts Council Grant. In a former incarnation and under the working title of RUNAWAY, it was shortlisted for PRH #WriteNowLive, longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award (made the final 8 of 885 entries), longlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and an early draft received an honorary mention in the Harry Bowling Prize for New Writing. The opening of NIGHT SCHOOL was published in Issue 1 of The Good Journal, edited by Nikesh Shukla. NIGHT SCHOOL was also longlisted for The Bath Novel Award (out of 1735 manuscripts that year) and was awarded an Arts Council England ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ bursary. It was also longlisted for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize.
What's next?
Divya is represented by Abi Fellows. She is also a CHASE PhD Scholar in Literature and Creative Writing at The University of East Anglia, where she is working on a critical thesis in literary ethics and a second novel set in Leicestershire.