Aswin Vijayan

TOTO Award for Creative Writing in English

Master Trainer, Implementation of CUFYUGP, University of Kerala

Poetry Related Roles: 

1. Editor, The Bombay Literary Magazine, 2023-25

2. Copy Editor, Daughter Days by Julia Wendell

3. Copy Editor, Shonottara: The Golden Butterfly by Urvi Shah

4. Copy Editor, moon blooms by Athira Unni

5. Curator, An Old Gray Thing: Time and I in Poetry, an Intermediate Poetry Reading Workshop, August 27, 2023

6. Managing Editor, The Quarantine Train, 2020-2022

7. Curator, New in Poetry, Nether Quarterly, 2020-23

8. Curator, ‘Poem from the Inside’, Pune Writers’ Group Workshop, April 2022

9. Moderator, Poetry Reading Panel, Anantha Poetry Festival, May 2022

10. Panelist, Coconuts on Mars: Indran Amirthanayagam, Anantha Poetry Festival, May 2022

11. Invited Poet, Bangalore Poetry Festival, Atta Galatta, August 2022

12. Curator, Workshop at IIT Madras, Article-19 DoHSS, September 2022

13. Host, Writing Survival, Untethering Selves, Discussion with shortlisted writers for TOTO Funds the Arts Creative Writing Awards in English 2023, February 15, 2023 https://youtu.be/4uB5R7fyycA?si=HYbH7iFR6z8aOGdl 

14. Moderator, Book Launch: Stormbound by Irtika Kazi, Anantha Poetry Festival, April 2021

15. Curator, “The drunkenness of things being various: An Introductory Workshop on Poetry Appreciation”, conducted in association with Mockingbirds Madras, April 26, 2020

16. Curator, “Still, Life: An Introductory Workshop on Poetry Appreciation”, conducted in association with Mockingbirds Madras, May 29, 2020

17. Curator, “Separated by an empty street: Poetry Appreciation Workshop” conducted in association with Mockingbirds Madras, August 14, 2020

18. Reader at Anantha Poetry Festival in association with The Quarantine Train, May 2024

19. Panelist, Spotlight on Chapbook Under the Handstand Statue Man at Anantha Poetry Festival, May 2024

20. Panelist, Query the Crow: Poetry, Passion, and Publication, Anantha Poetry Festival, May 2024

“Ciaran Carson’s Cumulative Palimpsest: Overwriting in Breaking News”, Two-day International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Intersections of Literature and History for Social and Cultural Change (COIN-2019), October 19 to October 20, 2019.

“Nissim Ezekiel as the Secret Stranger: Rootedness and Alienation of Anglophone Poets in India”, Samaagati International Interdisciplinary Conference 2017 on Nationalism: Discourse and Contestation, 12-14 May 2017.

HRDC, Pondicherry University , Pondicherry, August 17 to September 15, 2023; UGC Sponsored 11th Faculty Induction Programme.

University of Calicut, Malappuram, November 29 and November 30, 2023, November 29 and November 30, 2023; the training programme for master trainers in connection with the implementation of Four Year UG Programmes (FYUGP)

Sreenarayanaguru Open University, Farook College, Calicut, December 17, 2022; structured orientation programme for Academic Counsellors

Teaching Learning Centre, Department of English and Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, August 1, to August 14, 2021; two-week online Refresher Course in English Studies titled “Re-energising Research: Inter-disciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Indian Literature”

Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi and sponsored by MHRD- Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, May 18 to June 3, 2020; Two-Week Faculty Development Programme on “Managing Online Classes and Co-Creating MOOCs: 2.0”

Research Council and Department of Library and Information Studies of St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur and Directorate of Research, University of Calicut, August 12 to October 5, 2020; online course on Research and Publication Ethics

New Initiatives in Higher Education, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Govt. of Kerala, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, September 19, 2019; one-day workshop on Master Mentor training programme

ICT Academy of Kerala in association with Kerala Development of Innovation and Strategic Council (K-DISC), Hotel Paramount Tower, January 30 to January 31, 2020; two-day Young Innovator’s Programme-Facilitators Workshop on “Design for Kerala”

Journal Publications

“Feyman’s Autobiography: A Stylistic Analysis” in DEK Researcher, Vol. 1, Issue 2, School of Distance Education, University of Kerala, 2014, pp.44-52, ISBN 2349-6924.

Books

1. Editor, Kaleidoscope: Songs and Stories of Our World, textbook for English Common Course in the IV Semester for UG Programmes in the University of Calicut.

2. Editor, Appreciating Fiction, textbook for BA English Language and Literature in the IV Semester for UG Programmes in the University of Calicut.

3. Editor, Introduction to the World of Literature, textbook for the Major Course of the First Semester BA English Language and Literature Honours FYUG Programme under the University of Calicut.

4. Editor, Contemporary Language Skills for Commerce and Management, textbook for the Skill Enhancement Course 1 for Fourth Semester FYUG Programmes in the Commerce and Management Streams under the University of Calicut.

Poetry Publications

• “The Dystopian Cactus”, Tiffinbox Review, Issue 1, November 13, 2025. https://tiffinboxreview.substack.com/p/weird-weirder-weirdest

• Four Poems, What Else Is Rain? A Frontline Anthology of Contemporary English Poetry from Kerala edited by Gopikrishnan Kottoor, September 2024.

• “Padinjarathara”, Count Every Breath: A Climate Change Anthology edited by Vinita Agrawal, May 2023.

• Four Poems, Muse India Feature: Kerala Writing in English, Autumn Issue 111 Sep-Oct 2023 on November 6, 2023. https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=feature&issid=111&menuid=10794

• “Watching Freddy Mercury…”, Pena Literary Magazine “Echoes of Being” in February 2024.

• Under the Handstand Statue Man (Poetry Chapbook), Yavanika Press, December 2022.

• “Khajuraho”, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021-2022, Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal, June 2022.

• “Changing Places”, Hum Aiseich Bolte!, print anthology edited by Usha Akella, January 2023.

• “Garden” and “A Woolly Mammoth on the Shore”, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-2021, Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal, June 2021

• “Promise” and “Baumbach’s Witness”, Usawa Literary Review on July 7, 2021 https://www.usawa.in/issue-5/poetry/baumbach-witness.html 

• “Khajuraho”, Witness: The Red River Anthology of the Poetry of Dissent, Red River, in August, 2021

• “Chinese Fishing Nets”, The Hindu Metroplus (Print) on December 31, 2021

• “Flight”, Economic and Political Weekly on January 8, 2022 https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/2/postscript/%E2%80%8Bflight.html

• “A Woolly Mammoth on the Shore”, The Bombay Literary Magazine: Issue 43, July 7, 2020 https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/a-woolly-mammoth-on-the-shore-by-aswin-vijayan/ 

• “Garden”, Jotted by Bound, September 30, 2020 https://www.boundindia.com/garden/ 

• “Kochi-Muziris Biennale, December 2016”, Qissa, November 2020 https://b26963ea-50d4-409b-8790-981f6fb1daf1.filesusr.com/ugd/df3df8_bdf9a515cbd34ef9a09f5daac63419f4.pdf 

• Three poems, The Alipore Post, February 8, 2021 https://www.thealiporepost.com/post/3-poems-by-aswin-vijayan 

• “Signal”, Verse of Silence: Issue 3, Volume 2, October 30, 2019