Hello,
I'm Amrita
I write difficult stories about modern relationships, cultural identity, and people who go unnoticed.
I'm an Asset Manager in London by day and by night, when I'm not surrounded by buildings and spreadsheets, I work on my novels.
I paint, love dictionaries, and wax lyrical about food.
Fiction
Captain Asterix
Apricity Magazine
The Mountains Move Too
Barely South Review
Receptionist
Bridge Eight Press
The Butcher of Walthamstow
Hippocampus Magazine
#WIP
I've gone back and forth on deciding whether I should include this section or not.
But here we are.
Writing is the primary way by which I make sense of my thoughts and calm the voices in my head (I know). This leads to a situation where at any given point of time I am able to work on multiple projects.
I am currently in the process of querying my adult book club novel, Half Written. My WIPs include two upmarket speculative novels, All Our Goddesses and Here Be The Forgotten, and a myriad of short stories.
Non Fiction
You Are What You Put In Your Omelette
Glutton Magazine
10 Things to Blog About When You’re a Brand-New Author
The Writing Cooperative
India in 20 Days
Altertrips
I Am Not a CEO
TechinAsia
Features
Feature in Art Issue #45
Mud Season Review
Giving Into Abstraction
Mud Season Review
Editorship
Issue 01: New Beginnings
Oratoria Magazine
Issue 01: What Would You Sell for Thirty Bucks?
fake Art Magazine (now discontinued)
Issue 02: Your First and Your Last
fake Art Magazine (now discontinued)
JOURNAL
On Legacy
06 June, 2026
I physically can't hold a pen right now, so now this.
Latest
May Writerly Things
A monthly dispatch from the trenches, the drafts, and the general chaos
Is My Writing Too South Asian?
Do peanut vendors in India operate at 2 a.m.?
How Copying and Pasting From a Spreadsheet Saved My Novel
For those who don't like outlines.
How I Work With Beta Readers
Lessons in keeping my ego in check.
The Commute
Which is mostly about The Manuscript.
What a Year of Writing Taught Me
Or how I learned to embrace the insanity, accidentally write a novel, and develop an unhealthy relationship with Google Drive.
A Brief History of Rejections
And how some of my short stories got published.
But First, Let's Write is my blog on Substack. All fresh updates, news on critique partner programs and ARC reader programs, and new pieces are listed there first.
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Stuff
Critique Partner Match Up
As of 10 May 2026 this event is over.
The next match-up will take place in July 2026. If you'd like to be reminded, please feel free to let me know via email.The Beta Reader & Critique Partner Match Up list will be announced on 11 May 2026.
The form to sign up will remain open till 10 May 2026. Click here to sign up.
Why?
Good beta readers and critique partners are notoriously difficult to find. Even when we do use various social networks to do so, time zone and genre mismatches and general lack of accountability have been the biggest issues. It is also very time consuming to take part in multiple online groups just to sift through writers just to find someone that understands your genre and is ready to provide honest, helpful critique. This also helps writers who may not be part of online groups at all. The exercise is very useful in helping writers find not just critique partners but also to keep them accountable.What is it?
Fill out the form with your general location and novel genre and a sample extract of 3,000 words. And when the applications close on 10 May, you will be sorted in a group where all the members are best matched to each other's works and time zones. The group can then provide feedback on the sample extracts, or decide to do full swaps among themselves. The groups are limited to 2-6 people only depending on how many people sign up, so the feedback is manageable and hence, reduced chances of ghosting.Emails will go out to each group (group members' email addresses will be visible to each other and not outside the group) on 11 May 2026.While the groups are expected to manage their activities among themselves, Amrita will be coordinating the ones for her offline groups. She'll be more than happy to do it for anybody else that requires her assistance.Is it free?
Yes!
You can sign up here.
If you have any questions feel free to email Amrita.
HALF WRITTEN
Half Written
Welcome to the ARC Signup page for Half Written by Amrita Chowdhury, an adult book club novel, with a love story at its heart.
Veera Sen, a fiercely ambitious engineering student, is set to graduate University with an award-winning project, aiming for the C-suite by the time she's thirty. When her boyfriend Sameer Sharma, a charismatic fighter pilot in the Air Force, introduces her to his friend Paddy Thomas—a traditionalist who embodies everything she resists—she braces for friction. Instead, stolen conversations, blistering debates, and shared hungers for something beyond ordinary lives, ignite an unlikely kinship that tests their boundaries.
Through a devastating loss, mismatched ideologies, war and betrayal, they struggle to stay apart and they struggle to stay together. Until a choice made in desperation breaks them.
Years later, a rising star in London's corporate world of real estate, Veera receives an unexpected phone call that summons her back to India. This time she must confront not just the life she left behind but also the man she walked away from.Half Written is a beautifully rendered tale on friendship, love, grief, guilt, longing, and the meaning of being together through years of being ill-fated lovers.
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction with commercial appeal, book club/upmarket, romantic fiction
Tropes:
Friends to lovers, obsessive love, duty vs ambition, feminist heroine, duty-bound hero, desire vs friendship, betrayal, grief, brother vs brother.
For those who loved:
Heart The Lover by Lily King, Talking At Night by Claire Daverley, One Day by David Nicholls, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Past Lives (the movie) by Celine Song.
ARC Distribution timeline:
September 2026
Launch timeline:
November 2026
ARC Sign UP Forms:
Google (Available Now)
NetGalley (Coming Soon)
BookSirens (Coming Soon)
BookSprouts (Coming Soon)
For any queries, please feel free to email Amrita.
A trope guide on social media is available below.