The young women who make up the Ankur Writers Collective live in Delhi’s working-class neighborhoods. They meet several times a week to read aloud their stories, which usually respond to a mutually decided prompt. They draw on their own experiences and on interviews, observation, and imagination. Comments, critique, and suggestions from members of the Collective help them revise and polish their drafts. The Collective is set up and supported by Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education, a Delhi-based NGO that has been engaged in building the intellectual life of working-class neighborhoods for more than four decades. Currently, the Collective includes more than five hundred writers across seven localities. Their work has been published in literary journals and collected volumes. An anthology of translations titled Trickster City was published by Penguin India in 2010.