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…
Author: Pooja Garg
Submission to Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards 2019-2020
(Picture courtesy: Supreet K. Singh) We invite submissions to The Woman Inc. & Beyond Black Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards 2019-2020. Theme: Gender and Inclusivity The Woman Inc. is proud to be associated with Beyond Black, a subsidiary of Red Dot Foundation and Safecity for Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards. The awards recognize and celebrate the diverse…
Call for Submissions to Fall Issue 2020
We invite submissions for our Fall issue due to be published in first week of September, 2020. We invite submissions in art, poetry, fiction, reviews, photography and essays. We also invite submissions for interviews, opinion pieces and articles. Send your submissions along with a brief bio to submission.thewomaninc@gmail.com with ‘Fall 2020’ in the subject line….
TWI Candid: A Journey to Closure
Alka Writes takes a deep penetrating look at herself in this piece on her journey for Closure. To practice healing, over and over again. I thought I had been doing so well, that I had started believing this time I had reached beyond. Living in dysfunctional relationships often involves either denial or growing scabs and…
TWI Art: On Closure
New Jersey based Deepa Pisupati made special commission art for The Woman Inc. on Closure. Here is what she has to say about her painting: This painting represents two people who are at the end of their relationship. This relationship could be any – friends, lovers, family. As the reach the end of their relationship,…
TWI Review: Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Reviewed by Ashini J. Desai There have been many adaptations and reinterpretations of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice. The timeless essence of her characters has easily lent themselves our modern world; even the Kardashian family with their drive for fortune as steered by their mother/manager has been compared to the Bennets. Austen’s influence and characters are everywhere, and we know…
TWI Review: Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil
Reviewed by Anu Mahadev Bhanu Kapil is no stranger to the world of immigration, fragmentation, the resulting experiences in a new land, the concept of a land left behind – neither place can be called home, or perhaps both can. Exile and diaspora is not entirely a new concept as far as Asian-American literature is…
TWI Opinion: Domestic Violence: Is it Possible to Find Closure?
Is it possible to find Closure in the aftermath of Domestic Violence? Nalini Priyadarshini explores. Home is sanctuary where a person feels relaxed and safe. But alas, it is not true for everyone, especially for women and children. In fact, domestic violence is the biggest killer of women. When 82% of victims of intimate partner violence are women,…
For Fall Poetry Event: I Don’t Live in This Language Anymore
Three poems for the Poetry Salon by Prajakta Paranjpe I don’t live in this language anymore that was the medium of my youthful rebellion when rising from the mediocre towards a better expression seemed a reality one could live within the context of a language- Foreign words, opening up worlds I could not have imagined…
For Fall Poetry Event: Neem Leaves
Three poems for the Poetry Salon by Anu Mahadev. Neem Leaves I press them to my chest, like folded laundry, warm skeins of silk. Could it be only a week since you slipped into the folds of memory, the thin birds of your hands moving above the black stove or the last visit to the…
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