Subi Nanayakkara started her career in communications. Therefore, she has been writing for a living for the longest time for peak organisations such as the UN. Subi moved to Sri Lanka three years ago. Today, she is a philanthropist, fundraiser, and modeller who has...
Amaani Munaf started writing as a form of coping mechanism. She first started with poetry, where writing saved her from bottling up her pain as she dealt with bullying and discrimination since she was around thirteen years old. “It was a means of letting everything...
From a very young age, around six or seven, Cameron de Silva always loved writing and doing illustrations. “I always liked works such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Lord of the Rings, Maze Runner, etc.,” said Cameron. However, writing poetry came a little later...
Anupama Madhubhashinie Weerasinghe, popularly known as Anu Madhubhashinie is simply and truly, an artistic soul. But if we describe her more, she is also a singer, lyricist, dancer/dance instructor, choreographer, a commercial/academic/script and creative content...
Amila Weerasinghe grew up in the suburbs of Colombo in the 1960s and had a really happy and peaceful childhood. She recalled how the whole neighbourhood felt like one big playground. “We felt very safe. Everyone trusted everybody else unlike today,” she said. “We...
By Gayanga Dissanayaka Using her father, Vijaya Corea’s office room stationery and her mother’s envelopes, Sashika Corea at the age of eight, posted her poem, “My Brother” to a poetry contest in the newspapers, which was later published as the winning entry and won...
By Gayanga Dissanayaka L.S.C. Silva (Cedric Silva) wanted to write on topics that are unknown, absurd and not clearly revealed to humankind. From a young age, Cedric thought a lot about such vague topics and was reading and observing people constantly, all the while...
by Gayanga Dissanayaka Naomi Berman likes to identify herself first as a mom. Apart from that, she used to be a primary school teacher and is now studying a psychology degree in the hopes of becoming a psychologist in the future. Part of the reason she finds...
By Gayanga Dissanayaka Krishanthi Anandawansa was primarily a creative writer and poet before she published her book, “Lacanian Eye on Salman Rushdie”. She wrote this as her PhD thesis purely out of her love and curiosity for Rushdie’s work, and most importantly for...
by Gayanga Dissanayaka Gayathri loves traditional and lyrical poetry. The kind of poetry that gives the readers room to dig deeper and think. The kind of poetry that is well crafted and has substance. “I’m very old fashioned in that sense. I love the classics.” Her...
by Gayanga Dissanayaka Disara Dewni Abeywickrama, was an English lecturer by profession even before she graduated university. As the youngest in her family, she was pampered by parents and had an amazing childhood filled with love and freedom. But this also led most...
by Gayanga Dissanayake Introducing Sri Lanka’s culture and landmarks to children along with a suitable language while teaching them the local knowledge isn’t an easy task for a first-time writer. But Ruvani Chandrasekera’s debut publication manages to do exactly that...