Results 2023
The results of Wingword Poetry Competition have now been announced. With an overwhelming response, we garnered a staggering 1300 entries this year. A heartfelt thank you to each participant for baring their souls through their poetry.
Kudos to the victors and honorable mentions! Enormous gratitude to all participants for transforming this year's competition into an unforgettable journey.
Main Category Winners
The First Prize of One Lakh Rupees has been awarded to Surabhi Naik, a resident of Karwar, Karnataka for her poem ‘My Architectural Education’. Click here to read the poem.
The Second Prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Lawrence Fray, a resident of Gurugram for his poem ‘Theme With Variations’. Click here to read the poem.
The Third Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Hema Nayak, a resident of Ankola, Karnataka for her poem ‘Dressing native normalcy in modern absurdity’. Click here to read the poem.
Regional Category Winners
The First Prize of Thirty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Deepak Ahuja, a resident of New Delhi for his poem ‘ग़ुलामों की बस्ती’. Click here to read the poem.
The Second Prize of Twenty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Shailesh Shivakumar, a resident of Bangalore, Karnataka for his poem ‘ಎನ್ನ ಒಮ್ಮೆ ತಾಯಾಗಿಸು’. Click here to read the poem.
The Third Prize of Fifteen Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Anand Pandey ‘Raj, a resident of Mahesana, Gujarat for his poem ‘सड़क’. Click here to read the poem.
Top 20 Prizes (Main Category)
The shortlisted poets receive Ten Thousand Rupees each. Check out the list of prizewinners below.
Shaila Kanoria- Ancestry
Faheem Khan- Decoding the Unseen
Manu Sharma- Maybe, Mayhem
Amna Raj- My Mother is Leaving
Satyaki Sanyal- Summer in Tamarind Land
Anupam Vaish- Joke’s On Me
Sandhya Purohit- Have Had Been A Rebel Child
Movin Jain- Dementia
Tara Halder- The Wait is Over
Deepshikha P- Four Kinds of Justice
Umang Yadav- A Letter
Neelansh Gupta- Here and Now
Gurpreet Singh- Love is Not All
Ujjwala Majumdar- A Small Timer
Kiran Behera- Fugitive
Joleen Fernandez- Ghost Hunting
Santoshi Patil- Too Far from Home
Janhvi Kaur- A Place Inside of Me
Divya George- Fire Not Flowers
Suhani Talwar- Who Did It First
Top 10 Prizes (Regional Category)
The Shortlisted Poets of Regional Category receive Five Thousand Rupees each.
Mamta Shekhar Bisht- पहाड़ों के बीच
Ramesh Srinivasa- ஆரஞ்சு
Chaitali Roy- আমি জানি না
Anushka Nahata- आज़ादी
Afreen Nazim- اجازت ہے
Parvati Reddy- రేపు కొత్త రోజు
Bhavi Desai- જ્યારે રાત ભૂલી જાય છે
Aishwarya B M- युद्ध के बाद, हम फिर मिलेंगे
Himanta Hazarika- আকাশখন নীলা
Aaradhya Dhillon- ਰਾਧਾ ਦਾ ਦੋਸਤ
Commendable Mentions
The Violence That Shaped Me- Sayantani Chakravarty
Someone — on edge of a bridge - Malik Suhail Gulal
Dad's Motorcycle- PROBAL MAZUMDAR
My Wardrobe Has Mitochondrial DNA- Dr Anamika Nath
Fenestre- Tansy Troy
Dying Shillongites Striving to Survive- Marbamonlang Rani
(not a) trivial tragedy- Tanya Goyal
The Lone Man’s Fallacies - Anushka Saha
The wanderer- Kieran Anil Rogers
Ode to Unmarried and Unemployed Girls- Swathy Janardhanan
An Ode on Emptiness- Archana S Murthy
The Swallow- Pranit Gurung
my country is one of wealth and progress- Aanya Sharma
And then the universe whispered- Dyutima Kapoor
Portrait of a woman on her deathbed- Sonal K
Far yet one! - Alma Marwah
Before you become flowers- R.S.Chaithanya Raghavan
The dividing line- Satish Pendharkar
This Story is About We- Emine Sharma
I’M STILL IN CONTACT WITH MY RAPIST- Shivi
twenty days of October- Hritvika Lakhera
Beyond Blood- Ambica Gossain
Between you & me- Sibu Kumar Das
THEKKADY - Akshita Sharma
To Victims of Corona- Pekingto Jimo
राष्ट्र मेरा मुल्क तुम्हारा -Gaurav Bhatnagar
KHAAMOSH SAFAR KIS TARAH BASAR HOGI- Akil Contractor
YOU NEVER KNOW- Eshita Singh
Scarecrow-Swaathy Ravichandran
All But My Iridiscence-Shwetha B
Mr. Lockdown - Harsh Gangwani
Just a pillow- Simra Ansar
I found - Iram Khan
Cemetery for Living Souls- Pranav Chandrasekar
Da Vincible- Sumitra Mishra
Aasu ka mala- Vichitravi Vutukuri
BEING A GIRL: NO REGRET- Himanshi Shinde
A WONDERFUL MEET- VIDHYA LAKSHMI
क़दम- Nitin Srivastava
Mohabbat- Ritu Singh
Biodata- Swati Singh
Okay?- Aditi Solanki
A HOMELESS TOWN- Shefali
Tum Bas Tum Ho- Amit Saraf
Do your own thing. Will you?- Shambhavi Warad
माँ- Nadeem Ahmed
A Sacred Union- Ananya Dixit
Mind full of tabs- Saniya Alwa
Wind- Adyasha Biswal
We Talked Less…- Anuja Guha
SKY IS NO LONGER BLUE- Prakriti Roy
NOSTALGIA IS THE DEVIL - Gillian D'Souza
My Devices Control Me- Shalini Chhabra
Time- Alina Amir Khan
For We Are the Middle Class- Riya Roy
Seven Drops of Rain- Sharan Rao
The Pathetic-Prabhav Bhagat
बाळाचे मनोगत-Kavita Sangras Kanherikar
Soulmate- Maryam Mustaffa
Vajood- Kanchi Arora
Survival-Priya Pramod
Cucumber Eyes- Himanshu Arya
Trigger-happy- Ashna Saxena
Dark Clouds - Prachi Choudhury
Two women on a bench in a light blue sky that feels dark- Janya Govani
अस्तित्व- Nilesh Tiwari
Emergency -Shrutee Choudhary
Of Feminism and Mensrtual cramps- Mitalee Dabral
محفل خوشرنگ(Mehfil e Khushrang)- Iqbal Ahmad
Serve me with all of it - Mishika Gandhi
The Thought Of Knowing Home-Mallikarjun Pandya
मेरी अंतर-यात्रा- Sunita Singh
Would you call it hope?- Chinmayi Gummaraju
My Beautiful Lady- Chitra Kohli
Nonpareil "She”-Shruthi Puthran
Awaiting Your Homecoming -A poem portraying the feelings of Neerja Bhanot's mother- Dr. Krishnapriya Sajith
Night-blooming Jasmine - Rajni Tiwari
She- Rashmi Buragohain
Sky, Moon and Stars-Riddhi Sharma
Lonliness-Aanya Bajaj
The Peacock Plume- Sudesha Das
The Poem. Period. -Jyothi Swaroop Makena
Kintsugi- Indra Das
মানসী- Subhadra Chatterjee
A Loss - Karnika singh Singh
Tales of a Fading Landscape-Akshaya Ambati
Dahlias in Windowpane-Aditi Mishra
Wild Wild Autumn- Ananya Hazarika
The Nocturnal Lovers- Arshpreet Kaur
I MEET I- Irene Jose Kalapurakkal
Beauty Standards- Prisha Narang
Oh, Mr. Right - Kaya Parasher
Claws of Flaws- Himanshu Ahuja
Karma- Chandni Kapur
Ode to a Cat- Yashas Acharya
A Likeness of Anna Freud- Chinmaya Puri
Sundays at the Marketplace, with My Father- Sragdharamalini Das
A trip to Susan, Cherrapunji- Riniki Chakravarty Marwein
Life Lessons- Ikla Subba
Shy away- Bejoy Manoj
Certificate of Participation
All participants will receive certificates of participation electronically. Please check your email by December 2nd 2023 for a notification from our team.
Award Ceremony
Winners, commendable mentions and participants of the competition are invited to attend the award distribution ceremony due to be held in February 2024 in New Delhi.