Results 2020
We are delighted to announce the results of Wingword Poetry Competition 2020. In this year’s competition, we received participation from over 1300 participants from 16 countries across the world. We thank all participants for sharing their poetry in its most sincere and heartfelt form with us.
Congratulations to the winners and commendable mentions and huge thanks to all participants for making this year’s competition a memorable one!
The selected poems are available to read online, by clicking the title of the poems below.
Winners
The First Prize of One Lakh Rupees has been awarded to Neal Hall, a resident of Philadelphia for his poem ‘Matriarchal Patriarch’. Click here to read the poem.
The Shortlist
The shortlisted poets receive Ten Thousand Rupees each. You can read their poems by clicking on the names.
Bhavya Malhotra (New Delhi)- Camphor
Karishma Padia (Mumbai)- Fragrance
Dyondra Wilson (New York, USA)- Fuck Boy Math
Aditya Vikram Shrivastava (Lucknow)- Achaar
Keya Bergeron-Verma (Mumbai)- Not a word
Neethu Prasanna (Trivandrum)- My dad’s visits to America
Rhea Johnson (Mumbai)- You’re allowed to leave
Rhea Gupta (New Delhi)- The Plague
Ipsita Banerjee (Kolkata)- We are safe
Nila Lenin (Thrissur)- Amma can’t cook
Commendable Mentions
Navjyot Kaur Vilain (Le Monastère, France)- Kali’s Dance
Ambika Raina (Darjeeling)- My land is bleeding
Sonali Pattnaik (Ahmedabad)- Water’s Story
Asmi Sundru (New Delhi)- I’ll play the blues for you
Ilina Sinha (Tezpur)- The Language I Breathe In
Susanna Correya (Chennai)- Uniform
Probal Basak (Hooghly)- Horror of Lights
Kanupriya Rathore (Jaipur)- Streaming
Rahat Tasneem (New Delhi)- Family Tongue
Meghna Chatterjee (Kolkata)- ice cream summer
Gunjan Nanda (Dehradun)- A Pot-Pourri of Email Openers
Nidhil V (Brampton, Canada)- Family Photograph
Lakshya Singh (Nalagarh)- A Backseat in Duronto Express
Aditya Saha (Malbazar)- A Letter to One Returning Home
Diya Kandhari (New Delhi)- Bird died at the edge of NH-22 on a national holiday
Shristi Sainani (Ahmedabad)- Hello
Prateek Joshi (Saharanpur)- Crimson Cup
Qubra Rather (Srinagar)- We the hoarders
Riniki Chakravarty Marwein (Singapore)- Pandemic Salvations
Indra Hatpins (New Delhi)- Collision
Imsanenla Jamir (Mokukchung, Nagaland)- “Ü-This Poem Starts Here”
Mandar R. Multalikdesai (Bengaluru)- The Play
Laudeep Singh (Gurugram)- The Difference
Sampoorna Gonella (California)- The Maid
Harshit Pratap (Lucknow)- Evolution?
Digjam Sarma (Tezpur)- Departed
Garima Behal (New Delhi)- Combing Through
Dishika Deepak Iyer (Mumbai)- Beyond the letters
Nivedhitha Shree (Vellakovil)- Paralyzed
Karmishtha Krishna (Pune)- An ode to two girls
Abhinav Shukla (Saharanpur)- Creator and the Creation
Sneha Hegde (Bangalore)- Malum in se
Satish Pendharkar (Mumbai)- An Indian Tragedy
Amrisha Sinha (Gurugram)- lassi, aam panna
Lawrence Fray (Gurugram)- The 6:12 News
Madhu Shruti Mukherjee (Kolkata)- Unholy Women
Pritika Rao (Bengaluru)- the things we keep
Aditi Upadhyaya (Bengaluru)- anxiety. poetry?
Anshu Pandey (New Delhi)- Nail
Anushka Das (New Delhi)- My Mother
Mathew John (Ernakulam)- If Not
Junior Category
The results of Junior Category of Wingword Poetry Competition 2020 have been declared. Check out the list of prizewinners below.
1st Prize: Asmani Gill (Chandigarh)- Television Lies
2nd Prize: Nishi Deshmukh (Pune)- The Year of Steady Footsteps
3rd Prize: Kaya Bedi (Bangalore)- Watching bees and butterflies
Top 20 Places
Nandani Patel (Ahmedabad)- The Hunter and The Fox
Priya Chowdhury (New Delhi)- Good Thief
Ayushi Reddy (Secunderabad)- Down to Earth
Jagriti Iyer (Chennai)- In the garden of COVID
Garima Bakshi (Ludhiana)- Our Fears
Jayati Balakrishnan (Salem)- My Quiet Place
Dhruv Saxena (Meerut)- Trees
Indroneel Banerjee (Kolkata)- Sunrise in the City
Ragini Jha (New Delhi)- A Storm is Coming
Sagarika Burman (Bangalore)- The Relay for Oxygen
Taranvir Ahluwalia (Amritsar)- My Grandma’s Photograph On The Wall
Ojaswi Manan (Kochi)- The Birthday Party
Swedha Sharma (Lucknow)- Ode to Pizza
Eesha Parekh (Mumbai)- Welcome to India
Navjot Singh (Pune)- Returning Home
Ankita Goel (Gurgaon)- Cup of Life
Vishakha Badami (Jaipur)- Time
Anuradha Naidu (Hyderabad)- Papa and His Scooter
Vinayak Pant (New Delhi)- Breakfast
Aanya Varghese (Kollam)- Lesson Learned
Certificate of Participation
All participants will receive brief feedback and certificates of participation via email by June 1st 2021. This is done to help participants to enhance their writing skills.