We are very proud to announce the winners of The Woman Inc. & Beyond Black Annual Poetry Awards 2019.

The awardees were selected by a jury comprising of Sairee Chahal – CEO Sheroes, Supreet Singh – COO Red Dot Foundation and Safecity, Harish Iyer – Founder The Jimmy Foundation, Bishakha Dutta – Founder Point of View and Pooja Garg – Founder and Chief Editor The Woman Inc.

Here is the list of winners:

Winning Entries

1. Vasanthi Sweta – If I wrote a letter to my daughter

2. Somrita Urmi Ganguly – Devi: Beloved, Betrayed

3. Madhu Jaiswal – Queer

Special Mentions

1. Pritesh Dagur – Most battles chose me

2. Pragya Bhagat – Iceland

As part of the prize, winners are recipients of TWIBB Sakhi Fellowship.

The jury had a wonderful selection to choose from. Thank you everyone who participated and for being part of this wonderful journey.

The winning and shortlisted poems will be out shortly as part of an anthology.

Shortlisted Entries

Here is a list of shortlisted poems from which the winning poems were selected:

1. Decoration – Mehak Goyal
2. Labels – Mehak Goyal
3. Protect her – Mehak Goyal
4. The Broken Side Lamp – Vasanthi Swetha
5. IF I WROTE A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER – Vasanthi Swetha
6. LET ME SIN – Vasanthi Swetha
7. Our reward is the Rainbow. – Malvika Vazalwar
8. Queer – Anahita Sarabhai
9. Forgiveness / Guilt – Pranjulaa Singh
10. Unlabelled – Bineka Sadhnani Baksani
11. Deep – Kirsty Niven
12. Untitled – Sujaya Shetty
13. You are not an airbnb room – Somrita Urni Ganguly
14. Devi: Beloved, Betrayed – Somrita Urni Ganguly
15. Every 8th of March – Vandana Kumar
16. Let Me Tell You – Drishti Sanghavi
17. Facebook memory – Pragya Bhagat
18. Anchor – Pragya Bhagat
19. Iceland – Pragya Bhagat
20. Women are trees – Pragya Bhagat
21. Departures are arrivals elsewhere – Barnali Ray Shukla
22. Strings attached – Barnali Ray Shukla
23. Times have changed – Ankita Anand
24. Most Battles Chose Me – Pritesh Dagur
25. I See you Staring – Priyanka Nachane
26. Unlabelled – Bineka Sadhnani Baksani
27. Does hurt have a gender? – Megha Sood
28. BRING DOWN THOSE WALLS – Meera Nair
29. WRITE – Meera Nair
30. Rorschach – Shobhana Kumar
31. Matryoshka – Oriada Dajko
32. SHAKTI – Komal Gupta
33. SEA OF WORDS – Komal Gupta
34. Lexicon – Mehak Goyal
35. RSVP : Yay or Nay – Barnali Ray Shukla
36. Sympathetic Nervous System & I – Ayushi Mona