Sharanya Manivannan

Bangalore-bound this week for the alèy litfest at MAHE:

On ebbs, flows and making space for the mysterious: www.instagram.com/p/DM-gkdTSlo...

#cambodia #writersandartists #mermaids

Spotted in Siem Reap: Sovann Macha, one of my favourite mermaids and a star of my graphic novel #IncantationsOverWater, along with her lover Hanuman!

Thanks so much for sharing!

#poetry Bluesky, assemble!

I recall being floored by a prose poem called "Husband" many years ago, and I want to read it again. It was by an Asian-American writer, possibly queer. Can you help me find it, please?

Come to my table, my beloveds, my betrayers. Let me feed you from the bowl of life. Cross my threshold empty of palm, open of heart, eager of belly. I have picked only fruit already fallen and herb without malice and flesh anointed and absolved. I have placed a carnation beside each of your knives. —Sharanya Manivannan, "Benediction for the Feast" Issue 98.2, Selections from the Digital Schooner Global Fusion Series

"Benediction for the Feast" by @sharanyamanivannan.bsky.social appears in a Feast-themed portfolio in our latest issue, which celebrates our digital Fusion series.

Get the new issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer...

Thank you!

Aiiiiii look at this beauty!!! 📚💙

Thank you! You could ask your local bookstore or library to bring it in?

ANNOUNCEMENT!: I've been waiting over 3 years to be able to tell you that #MermaidsInTheMoonlight, the little book I drew and wrote and published in the first year of the pandemic is now back in print. This piece of my💙 has had a tumultuous journey, as have I. I'm grateful she's back.

Full moon tonight. As good a time as any to read this, if you'd like to and haven't already. 🎑

Full moon tonight. As good a time as any to read this, if you'd like to and haven't already. 🎑

A lovely and visceral lunar exploration by Sharanya Manivannan.

Thank you so much!

For the first time since 2021, I dusted off my drawing tablet and created a new illustration, "Eclipse Bloom". It was a true pleasure to create the words and art linked here. I hope for more such confluences and spaces that coax my writing and art out this way.

In March, I sat down to write a personal essay for this commission - very simply titled "On Moonlight". I was requested to share some of my published art to accompany the piece, which I did, but something miraculous also happened.

A story made of water: of incantations, mermaids, and moonlight The Subverse · Episode

I had been on Dark 'n' Light's The Subverse podcast some years ago (open.spotify.com/episode/0UDZ...), and was intrigued by the possibility of a new collaboration.

A few months ago, after a new short story was published, I put out a wish publicly - that I would receive more commissions to create. To my delight, Susan Mathews of Dark 'n' Light reached out, and her team sent a deck of prompts.

NEW WORK: A personal essay and artwork on the subject of moonlight. Out now in Dark 'n' Light. darknlight.com/projects/per...

I really wish the Indian government would make the burning of rubbish punishable by law.

Eid Mubarak. May Palestine be free. 🍉

Good morning to all who giggled at today's Wordle.

Oh wow! I love her poetry. Looking forward.

A gentle note that before you roll your eyes at posts on how it will soon be 5 years since the pandemic began in India (and elsewhere), some of our lives altered irrevocably from 2020 on, some of us have yet to recover, if we ever can. It is not just the years we are counting.

A gentle note that before you roll your eyes at posts on how it will soon be 5 years since the pandemic began in India (and elsewhere), some of our lives altered irrevocably from 2020 on, some of us have yet to recover, if we ever can. It is not just the years we are counting.

I did a live radio interview on Yes 101 in Sri Lanka last week, and here's a snippet that involved a provocative question! 😜 www.instagram.com/reel/DGDNvtd...

‘No more silence’: Israelis face Gaza war backlash on Sri Lanka’s beaches For years, relations between residents and Israeli visitors were cordial, but cracks in this dynamic are now visible.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

From my trip to the island earlier this month: Seeds of Solidarity is a Sri Lankan organization that raises funds and awareness for and about Palestine. www.instagram.com/p/DGLB7cXy5V...

I had the privilege (and pleasure) of reading and blurbing Jayasree Kalathil's English translation of Jissa Jose's Malayalam novel "Mudritha" last year. Out now from HarperCollins India.

#books #translation