Setu Bilingual सेतु पत्रिका

14/04/2025

सेतु, मार्च 2025 Setu (Hindi), March 2025 issue is live at the following URL:

सेतु वर्ष 9, अंक 10, मार्च 2025 सेतु के पीडीएफ़ (PDF) डाउनलोड, कविता कोश पर सम्पादकीय: अनुराग शर्मा साहित्य का जादू साहित्य सम....

08/04/2025

Setu, March 2025 issue is live now: https://www.setumag.com/2025/03/Lit-Art-Culture-Journal.html
Hindi edition may take a couple of days. सेतु हिंदी के मार्च 2025 अंक में हो रही देरी के लिये खेद है 🙏

Setu Volume 9; Issue 10; March 2025 Setu PDF Archives Editorial Sunil Sharma Celebrating Vasant Fest: A Setu-Prithvi Ce...

01/03/2025

A Limited Open Call for Setu: March-2025

(“Jumping Diving” by Robert Maddox-Harle)

Brief Description:
Another image by the iconic Robert Maddox-Harle, the Lismore-based artist-poet-photographer-editor-reviewer.
It is the concluding part of an ongoing series called “Conversations with Robert Maddox-Harle”.
Titled “Jumping Diving”, the stark visual in B/W signals an avian takeover of a jetty, declared dangerous by the authorities.
It is very poetic!
Humans---missing.
Birds reclaiming space.
Grey clouds and distant hill/s in the background.
Tranquil waters.
Rippling shadows.
Dark tones.
Romantic?
Grim warning?
Or, a prophecy?
What do you feel?

Details
Theme: Unveiling Meanings
Deadline: March-22nd, 2025 (strict adherence)
E-mail: [email protected]
Subject line: Submission for the Special Section
Title: Only the first letter in the uppercase, not the full title in uppercase and without underline or fancy decoration (full title in Bold)
Author’s Name: Immediately below the title (Bold); no need for adding@ to the text
Word Limit: 40 lines maximum (poetry); 500-1000words (prose)
Important Instructions:

---Please read this picture. Send poetry (three poems of 20 lines, maximum), prose piece of max 1000 words, themed-painting/drawing (three-five), with a brief bio of 100 words only, along with a recent pic, as two separate attachments, for the editorial evaluation.
---Reference to the photographer will be highly appreciated.
---(Regular contributors need not send their bios.)
---Text in the Word format, font 14
---No PDFs
---Mention, in the brief cover note that it is an original, unpublished work.

Please be advised:
---Only the best works will be featured
---Non-compliance will lead to the summary rejection
---No notification of the rejected pieces will be sent.

Meanwhile, visit this link for the latest edition:
---https://www.setumag.com/2025/01/Lit-Art-Culture-Journal.html

01/03/2025

We are open for Submissions!
Please send the best for review.
Read the guidelines:

सेतु हिंदी संस्करण के लेखकों के लिये दिशानिर्देश Submission Guidelines Welcome dear friend! We accept original theoretical or resear...

10/02/2025

Another initiative!
Coming up soon:
Setu Bilingual सेतु पत्रिका Mini Lit Fests.

The first one to be co-hosted by eminent poets Gopal Lahiri and Sutanuka Ghosh Roy in Kolkata.

"Readings for Setu Journal" will feature select poets and writers reading for the bilingual monthly with 5,122,493 views.

Thanks Gopal Da and Sutanuka for the generous support.

More venues to be announced in near future.

Meanwhile, please visit:
---https://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html

04/02/2025

A Limited Open Call for Setu: February-2025

Brief Description:

Another image (below) by the iconic Robert Maddox-Harle, the Lismore-based artist-poet-photographer-editor-reviewer.
It is part of an ongoing series called “Conversations with Robert Maddox-Harle”

Titled “Our Mother is Concerned”, it powerfully packs lots of subtle signals, messages, clues.

Is it some prophecy?
Signalling a dystopia about to happen?
A bleak dysfunctional world?
A climate crisis?
Invasion by aliens?

---What do you feel?

Details:
Theme: Unfolding Worlds
Deadline: February-22nd, 2025 (strict adherence)
E-mail: [email protected]
Subject line: Submission for the Special Edition
Title: Only the first letter in the uppercase, not the full title in uppercase and without underline or fancy decoration (full title in Bold)
Author’s Name: Immediately below the title (Bold); no need for adding@
Word Limit: 40 lines maximum (poetry); 500-1000words (prose)
Important Instructions:
---Please read this picture. Send poetry (three poems of 20 lines, maximum), prose piece of max 1000 words, themed-painting/drawing (three-five), with a brief bio of 100 words only, along with a recent pic, as two separate attachments, for the editorial evaluation.
---Reference to the photographer will be highly appreciated.
---(Regular contributors need not send their bios.)
---Text in the Word format, font 14
---No PDFs
---Mention, in the brief cover note that it is an original, unpublished work

Please be advised:
---Only the best works will be featured
---Non-compliance will lead to the summary rejection
---No notification of the rejected pieces will be sent.
Meanwhile, visit this link for the latest edition:
---https://www.setumag.com/2024/12/Lit-Art-Culture-Journal.html

(“Our Mother is Concerned” by Robert Maddox-Harle):

03/02/2025

सेतु, जनवरी 2025 Setu (Hindi), January 2025 issue is live now. Please read and share the joy. Thanks!

सेतु वर्ष 9, अंक 8, जनवरी 2025 सेतु के पीडीएफ़ (PDF) डाउनलोड, कविता कोश पर सम्पादकीय: अनुराग शर्मा वसंत पंचमी की शुभकामनाएँ क.....

18/01/2025

Congratulations! बधाई!
Setu Literary Excellence Awards 2024 सेतु साहित्य सृजन सम्मान
Setu Award is an annual tradition and our humble efforts to appreciate works of literature and honor select contemporary authors for their rich and continued contributions to the field of art.
- Pooja Anil
- Malashri Lal
- Satbir Chadha
- Prabodh Govil
- Meena Chopra
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Sangeeta Gupta
- Dinesh Pathak Shashi
- Neelam Saxena Chandra
***
सेतु साहित्य सृजन सम्मान 2024 के विजेता:
- पूजा अनिल
- मालाश्री लाल
- सतबीर चड्ढा
- प्रबोध गोविल
- मीना चौपड़ा
- संगीता गुप्ता
- संजीव कुमार
- दिनेश पाठक 'शशि'
- नीलम सक्सेना चंद्रा

𝕊𝕖𝕥𝕦 𝔸𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕃𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝔼𝕩𝕔𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 - 2024 2024 के सेतु साहित्य सृजन सम्मान Setu Award is an annual traditi...

12/01/2025

Welcome aboard!
Two specialists and creatives, part of the new editorial board, who will give new directions to the respective sections of the journal, under their dynamic leadership:
---Fiction Editor: Ethan Goffman
---Book Review Editor: Sutanuka Ghosh Roy

Setu strives to continually innovate and aims to serve you most humbly!

Already there are 5,073,019 views so far!

Congratulations and thanks to these two friends who kindly agreed to share the editorial responsibilities, despite their busy schedules.

Warm welcome from the global family of Setu!

Setu: English Editor-in-Chief and publisher: Anurag Sharma Managing Editor: Sunil Sharma Senior Editor: Sangeeta Sharma Fiction Edit...

06/01/2025

A Limited Open Call for Setu: "Music for the Soul"
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou

Brief Description of the Theme for January-2025:
Below is a B/W picture taken by the iconic Robert Maddox-Harle, the Lismore-based artist-poet-photographer-editor-reviewer.
It is part of an ongoing series called “Conversations with Robert Maddox-Harle”

Titled Bass Player, this image captures a particular moment, an action, a flow and frames it as a dialogue between the player and the invisible audience, the background of the trees and sky adds an element of romance.

Evocation of a lyrical mood. Production of harmonies. The female musician adds to the impact of the picture.

What do you feel?
Please feel free in interpreting the powerful visual and respond.

Details:
Theme: Music for the Soul
Deadline: January-25th, 2025 (strict adherence)
E-mail: [email protected]
Subject line: Submission for the Special Edition
Title: Only the first letter in the uppercase, not the full title in uppercase and without underline or fancy decoration (full title in Bold)
Author Name: Immediately below the title (Bold); no need for adding@
Word Limit: 40 lines maximum (poetry); 500-1000words (prose)
Important Instructions:
---Please read this picture. Send poetry (three poems of 20 lines, maximum), prose piece of max 1000 words, themed-painting/drawing (three-five), with a brief bio of 100 words only, along with a recent pic, as two separate attachments, for the editorial evaluation.
Reference to the photographer will be highly appreciated.
(Regular contributors need not send their bios.)
---Text in the Word format, font 14
---No PDFs
---Mention, in the brief cover note that it is an original, unpublished work
Please be advised:
---Only the best works will be featured
---Non-compliance will lead to the summary rejection
---No notification of the rejected pieces will be sent.

Meanwhile, visit this link for the latest edition:
---https://www.setumag.com/2024/12/Lit-Art-Culture-Journal.html



(Below: Bass Player by Robert Maddox-Harle)

04/01/2025

Submissions open now.
Send your best for review.

Visit the guidelines:

Setu Volume 9; Issue 7; December 2024 Setu PDF Archives Editorial Sunil Sharma Winners of Setu Awards for Excellence-202...

02/01/2025

𝐇a𝐩p𝐲 𝐍e𝐰 𝐘e𝐚r!
𝕊𝕖𝕥𝕦, 𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 - Mega Issue is live at the following link:

Setu Volume 9; Issue 7; December 2024 Setu PDF Archives Editorial Sunil Sharma Winners of Setu Awards for Excellence-202...

01/01/2025

𝐇a𝐩p𝐲 𝐍e𝐰 𝐘e𝐚r!
𝕊𝕖𝕥𝕦 (ℍ𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚), 𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜
नववर्ष की मंगलकामनाओं के साथ 2024 का अंतिम अंक आपको समर्पित है:

सेतु वर्ष 9, अंक 7, दिसम्बर 2024 सेतु के पीडीएफ़ (PDF) डाउनलोड, कविता कोश पर सम्पादकीय: अनुराग शर्मा एक युग का अन्त - विदा 2024...

10/12/2024

Please find below the link of the November, 2024 edition of Setu, released from Pittsburgh, USA by Anurag Sharma, its publisher and editor-in-chief:

---https://www.setumag.com/2024/11/Lit-Art-Culture-Journal.html



Thanks to all the featured signatures for their kind support to the bilingual journal with a viewership of 4,981,288.

09/12/2024

A Limited Open Call for Setu: December- 2024: Sweet-bitter Farewells!

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bidding goodbyes can be both sweet and sorrowful!
Lot depends on the contexts of saying goodbyes.

Farewells can be liberating also.
They can also cause suffering and take a psychosomatic toll.

In life, humans come across such shared situations where farewells become inevitable with their attendant consequences and emotional binaries.

Time to say goodbye!
How do you say that in real time to your friends, family, neighbours, colleagues, strangers (on a train, bus, plane, etc.)?
That brave attempt at turning around, hiding unbidden tears in red eyes and overcoming a choked voice at the inevitable parting.
The final parting!
The meaning of being human in separations, ad-hoc or permanent.

Well!
So many ways of recalling those moments.

Please send your works around this theme.
Interpret your own way.
Send us the best ones for review.

We are waiting.

Details:

Theme: Sweet-bitter Farewells!
Deadline: December- 25th, 2024 (strict adherence)
E-mail: [email protected]
Subject line: Submission for the Special Edition
Title: Only the first letter in the uppercase, not the full title in uppercase and without underline or fancy decoration (full title in Bold)
Author Name: Immediately below the title (Bold)
Word Limit: 40 lines maximum (poetry); 500-1000words (prose)

Instructions:

---Please send poetry (three poems of 20 lines, maximum), prose piece of max 1000 words, themed-painting/drawing (three-five), with a brief bio of 100 words only, along with a recent pic, as two separate attachments, for the editorial evaluation.

---Text in the Word format, font 14

---No PDFs

---Mention, in the brief cover note that it is an original, unpublished work

---Only the best works will be featured

---Non-compliance will lead to the summary rejection

---No notification of the rejected pieces will be sent.

Meanwhile, take a quick dive here:
---https://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html