StoryHunt Season 1
Press release. No fee, no prize: a biographer wants ten Indian immigrant stories nobody wrote down. Closes 31 October 2026.
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No fee, no prize: a biographer wants ten Indian immigrant stories nobody wrote down
StoryHunt Season 1 is open to Indian families worldwide. Contributors keep copyright, there is no entry fee, and the writer interviews all ten himself.
Saurabh Garg, a biographer who writes authorised biographies and family histories for Indian families, has opened a call for ten untold stories from the Indian diaspora. Submissions are open now at sgwashere.com/storyhunt and close on 31 October 2026.
StoryHunt Season 1 is not a writing competition. There is no entry fee, no prize, and no leaderboard. Garg selects ten stories, interviews each subject himself, and writes them. Contributors keep copyright in their own material.
“Every Indian family abroad has one story nobody wrote down,” Garg said. “A grandfather who landed in Newark with a suitcase and a phone number on a piece of paper. An aunt who ran a business out of a garage in Leicester for thirty years. The family knows it. Nobody has it on paper. In one generation it is gone.”
Garg has written in public since 2004 and published a novel, The Nidhi Kapoor Story, in 2014. He writes biographies and family legacy books for Indian founders, industrialists and families across the United States, the United Kingdom, the Gulf, Singapore, Canada and Australia. His commissioned fee is published on his site: ₹25 lakh in India, US$25,000 elsewhere. StoryHunt costs contributors nothing.
The call asks for rough submissions rather than polished writing. Contributors send what happened, who it happened to, and the details only a family would know. Garg does the writing.
“I am not buying anyone’s story,” Garg said. “There is no entry fee and there is no prize, because a prize makes it a competition and this is not one. I want ten stories I believe in and I will sit with each of them myself.”
He is candid about the risk. “I have no idea whether ten will turn up. Season 1 might find six.”
Submissions are open to anyone of Indian origin, anywhere, and to families writing on behalf of an older relative. There is no age limit and no requirement that the subject be living, though Garg says the interviews are the point and a living subject makes a better book.
How to submit. The brief and the form are at sgwashere.com/storyhunt. Terms are at sgwashere.com/storyhunt/terms. Season 1 closes 31 October 2026.
The facts, in one table
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| What | StoryHunt Season 1, a curated call for ten Indian diaspora stories |
| Who runs it | Saurabh Garg, ghostwriter and biographer |
| Open to | Anyone of Indian origin, anywhere. Families may submit on behalf of an older relative |
| Entry fee | None |
| Prize | None. It is not a competition |
| Copyright | Contributors keep copyright in their own material |
| Selected | Ten. Each interviewed and written by Garg himself |
| Opens | 15 August 2026 |
| Closes | 31 October 2026 |
| Where | sgwashere.com/storyhunt |
| Media contact | press@sgwashere.com |
About Saurabh Garg
Saurabh Garg is a ghostwriter and biographer who writes authorised biographies, founder stories, memoirs and family legacy books for Indian and Indian-diaspora clients. He has written in public since 2004 and published the novel The Nidhi Kapoor Story in 2014. He has been a founding partner at C4E, a marketing collective, since 2014, and built the Founder Thesis podcast with Akshay Datt. More at sgwashere.com.
Media contact
Saurabh Garg
press@sgwashere.com
sgwashere.com
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Questions editors ask
When does StoryHunt Season 1 close?
31 October 2026. If ten worth publishing arrive before then, the call closes early and the page says so.
Is there an entry fee for StoryHunt?
No. There is no entry fee and no prize. Contributors keep copyright in their own material and no raw entry is ever published.
Who can submit to StoryHunt?
Anyone of Indian origin, anywhere in the world, and families submitting on behalf of an older relative. No age limit. The subject does not have to be living, though the interviews are the point and a living subject makes a better book.
Can we republish this release?
Yes. In full or in part, edited or unedited, with no approval needed. This page is the canonical version, so a link back to it is useful but not required.
Tell your readers it is open.
The page is sgwashere.com/storyhunt and it closes 31 October 2026. If an original piece is more useful than a listing, write to press@sgwashere.com and I will write you one.