Results 2026
Results of Wingword Poetry Competition (2025- 2026 cycle) have now been announced.
The competition saw 1800 entries from Indians living in the country and abroad. The judges were surprised to see a variety of new topics cropping up in the competition including interactions with technology, social issues, family and cultural identity, and personal experiences.
Though the pool had hundreds of extremely vibrant poems, we could only award limited places.
Congratulations to both winners and participants! Hope you enjoy reading the winning poems.
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.
Winners
The First prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Anamika Tamuli for her poem ‘The dal burned’ from Jorhat, Assam. Click here to read the poem.
The Second Prize of Thirty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Avinash Tiwari for his poem ‘मेरे पिता की कहानी’ from New Delhi. Click here to read the poem.
The Third Prize of Twenty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Monalisa Changkija for her poem ‘They Say’ from Dimapur, Nagaland. Click here to read the poem.
Top 10 Prizes
The shortlisted poets receive Ten Thousand Rupees each. To read the poem, kindly click on it.
Leena Chacko- My Mother in her Many Moods (Chengannur, Kerala)
Sangeetha Menon- War Poem (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
Dr Usha Rao- मुट्ठी में मिट्टी (Bangalore, Karnataka)
Ricky Kmenlang Mawlong- The Godward 57.24 (Shillong, Meghalaya)
Vashima Jain- सांवली हूँ (Gurgaon Haryana)
Akshita Sharma- His Favourite Fruit (New Delhi)
Gopikrishnan Kottoor- Ants on a Wire (Trivandrum, Kerala)
Sanghamitra Debsharma- न भाषा न आशा (New Delhi)
Purvi Romdhari- under the weight we bloom (Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh)
Shloka Sonawane- The Day I Broke A Vase (Pune, Maharashtra)
Commendable Mentions
The following poets will be published in the prize-winning anthology of Wingword Poetry Prize.
Jaideep Saikia- Defiant, I (Guwahati, Assam)
Swati Sinha- The Cracked Cup in the Kitchen Sink (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)
Kanchan Pachkudve- अच्छा होता अनपढ होती (Osmanabad, Maharashtra)
Mohan Bambha- Potter’s Apprentice (Karnal, Haryana)
Aparna R- Out-Patient/ In-Ward (Ernakulam, Kerala)
Atul Katiyar- कैसे करते हैं आप लोगों को विदा (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
Vimla Menon- A woman empowered (Cochin, Kerala)
Sadhana Santhoshkumar- The Way Nature Heals (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
Lysa Ramojela- Hollow (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Dr. Sonia Vashishta Oberoi- An Ode to Parkinson's (Chandigarh)
Nivedita Nayak- निवेदन (Bhubaneshwar, Odisha)
Nidhi- Standard Operating Procedure: Tea at 0600 (Delhi, Delhi)
Venkatesh Govindarajan- Dog in tow (New Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Hemadri Jadaun- The Day That They Had Forgotten (Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Gopinath S Iyengar- Humour (Bengaluru, Karnataka)
Dr. Sheetal Nair- Silent Inheritance ( Gujarat)
Navya Sharma- पहलगाम कहर (Bhopal)
Anika Bhati- There was Once a Country That Banned Mirrors (Mumbai)
Avalok Arts- Oodli Express (Bangalore)
Rajendra Nagdev- एक पिन है अभी तक (Madhya Pradesh)
Sudha Yadavalli- Childhood (Hyderabad, Telangana)
Poonam Khurana- HomeMaker's Plight (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Samikshya Naik- गुमसुम सा गुमनाम (Hyderabad, Telangana)
Adrija Poddar- MY DAUGHTER IS BORDERLINE INSANE Kolkata, West Bengal)
Boranya Choudhury- Loveless (Silchar, Assam)
Adith V.R- Sandwich (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Loden Lama- Between Memory and Mercy (Siliguri, WB)
Rajendrakumar Badwaik- शब्द का वास्तविक मोल (Ambarnath, Maharashtra)
Biswa Ranjan Goswami- The Split Screen: Modern India: Democracy, Development, and Digital Leap (Khorda, Odisha)
Sushil Verma- माँ (Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh)
Ballaleshwar Tela- The Dismay( Umarkhed, Maharashtra)
Nivedita Dalmia- मायापक्षी (Luchnow, Utter Pradesh)
Akhilesh Mehra, Cat (Zirakpur, Punjab)
Bijita Sharma- Quigmire (Hyderabad, Telangana)
Deepak Rai Chowdhary, पुत्र - वियोग में पिता का विलाप, (Mohali, Punjab)
Archana Bhaskar, अंतर्मन के पाखी (Indore, Madhya Pradesh)
Diya Pradeep- A junk email from God (Thrissur, Kerala)
Shamitaa Arora- The Eclipsed (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Hemlata Poralkar- Life, the Eternal Pilgrimage (Nagpur, Maharashtra)
Vagmita- My Grandfather's Garden (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)
Sayantika Sarkar- After Winter (Kolkata, West Bengal)
Mansi Dugar- ज़मीन (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
Zonaira Arora- The Physics of Almost (Amritsar, Punjab)
Alaiha Vanjara- The Affidavit of a Woman in 2026, (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Himani Arora Gupta- हल्के रहो, आज़ाद रहो (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Anil Z Mathew- The Trophy (Nagpur, Maharashtra)
Dr. Sudevi Basu Invaluable- Hidden in the Invisible, (Mysuru Karnataka)
Aarti Upadhyay- The Economics of Pav Bhaji (Ahmedabad, Gujarat)
Adviti Minni- No (Hong Kong)
Dr Sonam Jain- परवरिश अब पैरेंटिंग हो चली है (Indore, Madhya Pradesh)
Siddhi Nanda- Dear Curly Hair ( Mohali, Punjab)
Siddika Nurani- Brown (Ahmedabad, Gujarat)
Vanya Parolia- Culture (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Banani Sikdar- I Wish (Pune,Maharashtra)
Amrita Kumar- Lady in the white coat (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Antarlina Bhattacharjee- Fermented Fish (Agartala, Tripura)
Mansi Dugar- ज़मीन (Chennai, TAMIL NADU)
Govindan Govindarajan- Kālai (New Delhi)
Ipshita Juyal- Gone Too Soon, Stayed Too Long (Mumbai Maharashtra)
Wing Commander Dinesh Vaswani- New Indian Jagran Towards Environment (Ahmedabad, Gujarat)
Hargun Monga- Aren’t we all sinners? (Ludhiana, Punjab)
Anoyuksha Singh- Sesame Oil (Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh)
Adhiyan J- Her Stories (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
Manav Sinha- तेरे रंग में (Motihari, Bihar)
Hephzibah Sophie Prabhakar- LOST TO EXCESS (Bangalore , Karnataka)
Michelle Judy- My Heart Cries, Why? - A Lament in a Numb Nation (Siolim, Goa)
Harsh Nath Jha- बिंदी (New Delhi, Delhi)
Samridhi Chakra- The kitchen (Bhubaneswar, Odisha)
Kieran Rogers, The Echoes Still Answer (Sittingbourne, Kent)
Sindhuri T- INHERITANCE (Bengaluru, Karnataka)
Pritam Narayan- आदमी गुब्बारा हे (Jodhpur, Rajasthan)
Saurabh Anand- T-shirt Quotes (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Bidisha Chowdhury- A Run into Hollow (Baidyabati, West Bengal)
Vishakha Joshi- खामोशि का जवाब (Rajkot, Gujarat)
Pratyusha Chaudhuri- My Poem left me (Elland, West Yorkshire)
Debarati Sen- Sevdah, (Kolkata West Bengal)
Prashant Singh- मुझे बस सोना अच्छा लगता है (Gurgoan, Haryana)
Medonguno Thore- My Iron Lady (Kohima, Nagaland)
Nupur Katoch- Amma (New Delhi, Delhi)
Aanya Arora- Cracked hands, yours (New Delhi)
Philomel Roy- Subornolota (Bangalore, Karnataka)
Avani Kochar- The Story of the forgotten pastry (Pune, Maharashtra)
Aayushi Soni- औरतों की कमाई “रोटी” (Raipur, Chattisgarh)
Japsirat Kaur Jawandha- The Travel Letter (Punjab, Dhuri)
Stephen Joseph- Prayers for Robert (Bengaluru North, Karnataka)
Surabhi Sanghi- Modern love (Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh)
Aleena Farooqui- Muslims Of Hindustan (Nanded, Maharashtra)
Chesta Bakshi- तुम्हारा असर (New Delhi)
Priyanka Aravind- I know you are not the guy (Palakkad, Kerala)
Anish Chatterjee- Why I Associate Winter With Music (Mumbai, Maharashtra )
Tanuja- बस एक वो कमरा (Kaithal, Haryana)
Smitha Ramesh Athani- Rockstars from the 1940s (Mysore, Karnataka)
Protyusha Mukhopadhyay, A Cry for Safety (Pune, Maharashtra)
Shruti Chauhan- मर्द (New Delhi, Delhi)
Poornima Dayal- Impressions from frames (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Suryashree Routh- Halfway (Kolkata, West Bengal)
Kezhakielie Whiso- My Mother's Hoarding (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)
Jasmeet Kaur- Curtain Call (Ludhiana, Punjab)
Namrata Bheemge- परदा (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)
Aarna Gautam- The house I never meant to build ( Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Anisha H. Karthick- The Kind Embrace (Ranchi, Jharkhand)
Sripad Ainavolu- अनाहिता (Thane)
Certificate of Participation
Please check your e-mail by April 3rd 2026 EOD (including promotions and spam folders) for the electronic certificate. If you would like to request hard copy of the certificate, please fill the request form that we will be sending you.
Award Ceremony
The award ceremony of Wingword Poetry Prize will be held on May 30th 2026 (Saturday) in New Delhi. All winners and participants are welcome to attend it.