Book launch of ‘Notes on a Marriage’ at GALF 2024, February

Radio chat between Ramjee Chandran and Selma Carvalho.

Recorded podcast between poet Manohar Shetty and Selma Carvalho. Click here.


Sisterhood of Swans shortlisted for the Women Writers Prize 2021 and interviewed here by Shinnie Anthony, prize curator/Bangalore International Centre.


Asian Review of Books lists ‘Sisterhood of Swans’ among top six fiction books for 2021.


Jerry Pinto lists ‘Sisterhood of Swans’ among top three books of 2021 in India Today.


Selma Carvalho discussing Sisterhood of Swans with the Margao Book Club.

Panel Discussion by She The People including
Selma Carvalho discussion ‘Sisterhood of Swans.’

Author Mona Dash and Selma Carvalho discussing ‘Sisterhood of Swans’ being British-South Asian writers, of belonging, the specificity of female desire and what the publishing industry expects of us.


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Collaborative Issue between APWT & JRLJ

Issue no 20, Summer, 2021.


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An IIT Kanpur-Joao Roque collaboration.

Rochelle Potkar conducting a workshop on 26 September, 2020.


Jose Lourenco reading from the anthology The Brave New World of Goan Writing & Art 2020. Jose has a wonderful short story titled ‘The Breadfruit Tree’ included in the book. This book is available for sale at Dogears Bookshop, Margao, Goa.


Two workshops organised by Joao Roque Literary Journal and Bookworm Bookshop on 28th September, 2019. Creative Writing workshop conducted by author Jessica Faleiro and Poetry workshop by poet Rochelle D’Silva.

Anthology available at Dogears Bookshop, Margao; and at Kitaab Khana, Bombay; renowned writer Victor Rangel-Ribeiro reading from the anthology at Carpe Diem gallery, Goa, Dec 2018; launch at GALF 2018.

Launch of the print JRLJ anthology titled Brave New World of Goan Writing (Bombaykala Publishers) at GALF 2018, Goa, December 2018. The anthology is available for purchase on Amazon India, UK and International.