Results 2025
The results of Wingword Poetry Competition have now been announced. With an overwhelming response, we garnered over 3,500 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.
Important Notice: Prizes will be handed over after background verification and adherence to terms of the competition. We will also cross-check that the selected work is not AI generated or plagiarized. We reserve the right to disqualify a winner for just reason. In such a scenario, the prize will then be awarded to the next rank.
Main Category Winners
The First Prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Prantik Banerjee for his poem ‘Stand Alone’. Click here to read the poem.
The Second Prize of Thirty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Dalip Maccune for his poem ‘Body Language of the Dead’. Click here to read the poem.
The Third Prize of Twenty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Varsha Rani for her poem ‘युद्ध’. Click here to read the poem.
Top 10 Prizes (Main Category)
The shortlisted poets receive Ten Thousand Rupees each. Check out the list of prizewinners below.
Apeksha Reddy- don’t look away when the pan is on the stove
Vaidehi Kulkarni- सुनी हुई बातें
Omkar Pillai- We Were Thunder Once
Myra Menon- Things I Lost on a Tuesday
Janki Gehlot- मुसाफिर और मुकाम
Ayaan Haque- The forgetting and forgotten
Ruhani Bagchi- The Art of Keeping the Spine Straight
Dev Kamat- बचपन के जूते
Chhavi Singh- दो रोटी की भूख
Nayantara- Unsent Email
Regional Category Winners
The First Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Koustov Mukhopadhyay for his poem ‘আমি বাবাকে দেখেছি’ from Purulia, West Bengal.
The Second Prize of Fifteen Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Sachin Khare for his poem ‘आत्ताची पिढी’ from Pune, Maharashtra.
The Third Prize of Ten Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Tushar Mehta for his poem ‘પ્રેમ શું કર્યો એણે’ from Anand in Gujarat.
Top 10 Prizes (Regional Category)
The Shortlisted Poets of Regional Category receive Five Thousand Rupees each.
Suchitra Saha- আমি কষ্ট সহ্য করব
Bhargav Gowda- ಪವಿತ್ರ ಕಾವೇರಿ ತಾಯಿಗೆ ಶಿರಸಾ ನಮನ
Shehnawaz Alam- تم نور ہو
Durga Barua- চিংৰী মাছৰ গন্ধ
Janani Sivakumar- என் பால்யம்
Gurpreet Kaur- ਸਾਡਾ ਪੰਜਾਬ
Harsh Patel- વૃદ્ધાવસ્થા ની વાણી
Jeevitha Surya- கன்னியாகுமரிக்கு ரயில்
Amrita Patil- आजोबांच्या आंब्याच्या झाडाखाली
Junior Category Winners
The First Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Kiara Bansal, a resident of Mumbai, Maharasthra for her poem ‘The Games Play Us’. Click here to read the poem.
The Second Prize of Fifteen Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Ved Sareen, a resident of Indore, Madhya Pradesh for his poem ‘Summer Vacation’.
The Third Prize of Ten Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Dhruvi Dutt, a resident of Kolkata, West Bengal for her poem ‘Who will say yes?’
Top 10 Prizes (Junior Category)
The Shortlisted Poets of Junior Category receive Five Thousand Rupees each.
Zoya- Never Good at Math
Apoorva Rajan- Finder’s Keepers
Vrinda Joshi- मेरी माँ और मेरी नानी
Eshani Patel- The Secret Life of My Crayon
Advaith Rao- Dear Mrs Bose
Ridhima Jain- भारी बस्ता
Tejas Gill- परछाई
Saisha Nambiar- Rainbow
Rehaan Ali- The loss of a precious tooth
Divyashree Gowda- A Train to My Grandfather’s Home
Commendable Mentions
Ankita Mishra- भग्न स्वपन
Dr. Nilutpal Mahanta- समय ही सत्य है
Richa Singh- I did nothing
Ameerah Rahman- Keepsakes
Reshma G.V.S.- Flight 171 Does Not Land Today
Arpita Tripathi- ज़िंदगी की सीख
Rija Toko- a body of water
Riya Sharma- Shapeshifter
Esha Nautiyal- कवि
Arundhati Barbora- Reminiscing
Vasudha Murthy- Dance of Rudra
Meenakshi Bhatnagar- संघर्ष बनो तुम
Sukriti Chopra- Behind the Curtain
Yashvi Trivedi- Paper Boat
Mohana Talapatra- Baby's Breath
Pria Serene- Death Is A Full Course Meal
P. S. Surya Srinivas- The Shirt Still Doesn’t Fit
Beena E S- The Lost Village
Amitesh Das- Offering
Prashanti Chaudhari- Chronicles at the Tattoo Parlour
Tanvi Maloo- Scab
Abhinav Jha- Have you ever seen a human burn?
Debjyoti Das- Steaming Cups of Tea
Poornima Dayal- The Gulmohar tree
Kakoli Ghosh- Birth Certificate
Vandana Singla- जिंदगी
Cherime Sangma- Spend Time With You
Gopikrishnan Kottoor- A Burning Mother
Vivaan Bhalla- Grandfather, Goodbye.
Neelima Chakraborty- The Phonecall
Indra Narayan Das- साइकिल
Vaswati Das- Notes from a Business Consultant, After Hours
Neethu Prasanna- 42 Idlis
Gopi Phondni- Wabi Sabi
Samruddhi Jadhav- Empty Love
Aishwarya Roy- A Conversation Between Two Languages
Maurya Shejav- की तुम पूछते हमसे
Srija Ghorai- I watched my hands make an offering and left my cramps unattended
Kumar Ranjan-प्रथम भेंट
Sangeeta Jangid- न कदापि खंडित:
Vibhav Saxena- प्रेम की परिभाषा
Rashmi Sahai- कड़वाहट
Indira Gupta- गहन कुहासा चीर कभी तो
Anuradha Kapoor- Chemotherapy
Rakhi Upadhyay- शून्य से शून्य तक का सफर
Dr Adhishree Gupta- जिंदगी
Shandhini S- Incomplete Mother
Prabhat Patel- संघर्ष एक सफलता
Rohitkumar Patel- आग और राख
Sudhanshu Bala Nanda- आज तो वसंत है
Aishwarya Chandra- Ghost Of You
Somya Singh- नया नियम
Atal Kashyap- क्लोरोफिल
Deepti Shrivastava- आस्था
Chanchal Malhotra- मासूम इश्क
Surya Kishore- प्रतिरोध
Suchita Gotimukul- माया और मुक्ति
Rashmi Shahi Sharma- वो इक्कीसवीं सदी की लड़की
Sushant Yadav- कलियुग की महाभारत
Samaira Sood- Interstices in Space
Mitul Chauhan- साहस का लेख
Dr Mamta Mishra- The Modern Age
Debajyoti Majumdar- The Brothel Stories
Priyanka Kumari- मेरे पापा
Divya Soni- साज-बाज की बेला
Sabita Sarma- A Cup of Tea
Tara Mahajan- Our Echo: For the Children of Palestine
Swetha Manivannan- 15 things I've learnt about myself
Ananya Kumari- Bills to be brainy
Manpreet Chadha- क्या मैं शिक्षित हूं?
Shailesh Shivakumar- Singularity
Shreya Bakshi- Baroccofin
S T Selve Singh- Silence, so obvious
Rakshit Mishra- मज़दूर हैं हम साहब
Dr Dipa Mitra- Inbox Zero, Soul Full
Dr Meghanath Yenni- Technology, Cookie’s Rewards
Sonali Bawa- A Dream Within A Dream
Ponung Angpu- The song of an orphan
Shreshtha Kovvali- On Balwant Chowk
Adriza Pobi- Kitchen
Manta Sidhu- Silence
Gopinath Iyengar- WORLD IS A FAMILY
Wikim Ajang- April
Purna Chakraborty- Facade-2108
Sarmistha Neogy- Dear Diary
Farha Jalal- Shopping with Society
Anoohya Kanaparthi- My mother was a secret poet
Divyanshu Raj Pandey- मैं ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी ढूँढ रहा था
Mathew John- Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Raya Zaman- Soup
Mansi Dugar- Ek kahani: Do Sawaal
Sambhu Ramachandran- For your never named sake
Aditi Surha- Five Days of Disappearance
Jayita Mukherjee- In Another Life, My Mother Chose Herself First
Ishita Dalvi- Tea Spilled
Adhipa Ravindranath- Sugar Is the Way to a Man’s Heart
Nyoikhaw Pansa- Your Honour, I Just Got The Key
Vidhi Ghodawat- i tried to cage the elephant—it didn’t work, shit.
Amrutha Manoj- Banerji Road, After
Shiva Sharma Akalwadi- WITCH ON A HUNT
Dr Chittaranjan Dhangada Majhi- सौगंध है सिन्दूर का
Neeta Mohla- A Daughter's Elegy
Ballaleshwar Tela- My Mother
Niranjana Balram Menon- The Politics Of Language
Pranisha Tamang- Seconds before Silence
Akshita Sharma- Nathu’s Tapri
Award Ceremony
Winners, commendable mentions and participants of the competition are all invited to attend the award distribution ceremony due to be held in November 2025 in New Delhi.
Certificate of Participation
All participants will receive certificates of participation electronically.
Please check your email by August 5th 2025, Tuesday for a notification from our team (both promotions and spam folder). In case you don’t receive an email due to any technical reason, you can contact us at info@wingword.in to request your copy.
A Word from the Committee
This year, we received entries from across the country—proof that India continues to value and celebrate art and literature. It’s heartening to see so many voices eager to be heard.
We’d like to remind all participants: writing is meant to be shared. No matter your age or experience, your words matter. When you share your writing, you give it a chance to grow, touch lives, and become part of a larger literary conversation. This exchange of poetry nurtures a vibrant ecosystem of appreciation and creativity.Remember, winning and losing are just two sides of the same coin. Don’t let this stop you—try again in our next competition.
Keep writing. Keep sharing.