In addition to around 40 emerging writers from India and around the world who attended workshops, among the distinguished symposium speakers and workshop leaders were:
Harry Aveling, Extra Ordinary Professor of Translation Studies, University of Indonesia.
Jane Camens, writer and Executive Director, Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership.
Vijayasree Chaganti, translator and editor, Osmania Univeristy.
Jon Cook, Dean, Arts and Humanities, Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts, University of East Anglia.
Keki Daruwall, poet and fiction writer.
Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
John Drew, Convenor, Cambridge Poetry Workshop.
Kaiser Haq, poet, Dhaka University.
Rukshida Jalil, writer, translator, media co-ordinator, Jamia Milia Islamia.
Robin Hemley, Director of Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa.
Nicholas Jose, Australian writer currently based at the University of Western Sydney.
Lakshmi Kannan, poet and translator.
Malashri Lal, University of Delhi
Ritu Menon, publisher.
Satendra Nandan, novelist, University of Fiji.
Lakshmi Pamuntjak, an Indonesia poet and writer, on literature and fundamentalism.
Nishant Shah, director of the Centre for Internet & society, Bangalore.
Dinah Roma-Sianturi, poet and Director of De La Salle University's Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Centre, who teaches literature and writing at De La Salle University in Manila.
Frank Stewart, Editor, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.
Mark Tully, journalist and writer.
Ashok Vajpiyi, poet and Chair of the Lali Kala Academy.
Pavan V. Varma, Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Gillian Wright, author and translator.
Xu Xi, a Chinese-Indonesian novelist, Vermont College.