Fiction & Poetry

Fiction

Short Story "Sweet Peas" | The Moth Magazine | Issue 8 | Spring 2012
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Short Story "A Flash of Pepper" | Winner of the Foyles Haruki Murakami competition | January 2012
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Short Story "Special Delivery" | Too Asian, Not Asian Enough | Tindal Street Press | October 2011

Short Story "Preludes and Elusions" | The Mechanics' Institute Review: Issue 6 | September 2009
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Excerpt from the review of the anthology in The Independent on 2 October 2009: "An intriguing cluster of tales – from David Quéva, Kavita Jindal, Jon Elsom – touch via fantasy or even SF on fears about the fate of children."

Short Story "The Afternoon After" | Tales of the DeCongested | Foyle's | May 2008
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Short Story "There was a Turtle" | The Mechanics' Institute Review: Issue 3 | September 2006
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Story also published in: The Group Online Magazine | The Literature Issue | Edited by Adair Jones | July 2010 | Introduction from Adair Jones: In this nuanced short story, Kavita Jindal weaves together a rich tapestry of the ways superstition and psychology operate in modern life. On a trip to New Mexico, Jindal discovered Zuni fetishes (tiny carved 'charms'); their beauty inspired the story.

Short Story "Willow's Best Kiss" | 'Just A Kiss' anthology | ISBN 0-9554360-0-1 | Freelance Press | December 2006
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Poetry

Collection

Raincheck Renewed | Chameleon Press | January 2004
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Anthologies & Journals

Poems are included in the following:  

South Asian ENSEMBLE | A Canadian Quarterly of Arts, Literature and Culture | Vol. 3 Number 3 | Summer 2011

Poetry tREnD | English – German Anthology | Ed. Aprilia Zank | July 2010

Seeking Refuge | Cinnamon Press | May 2010

Asia Literary Review | Issue 12 | Summer 2009

Not A Muse | Haven Books | March 2009

In Our Own Words, Volume 7 | MW Enterprises | September 2007

Honoring Fathers | The University of Philippines Press | June 2005

Poetry Live | Chameleon Press | March 2005

Poems on Websites

"Chaining the Ecstatic" | Eyewear blog | Summer 2010

"These Are My Excuses" and "Where Home Was" in the Asia Literary Review | Volume 12 | Summer 2009

"That's War", "It's Your Go" and other poems | www.blackcatpoems.com | 2009

"Morphing" (and selected other poems) | poetry p f | May 2008

"Act of Faith" and "Ellipsing, elapsing" | Cha: An Asian Literary Journal | Issue 1 | November 2007

"My Father's Life in Mine" | the series of 6 poems and other poems | Open Space India

"Last Days on Headland Road" | Asia and Pacific Writer's Network | Edition: The Fifty Shrinking Years (page 6) | November 2006

"Patina" | Private – International Review of Photographs and Texts | 2005