Season II: May 2025
Sara Haque (she/they) is a queer Muslim poet from the riverside town of Goalpara, Assam. Their work centres around queerness, faith, memory, language and geo-political marginalizations, via poetry, photography, and other artistic mediums, and has been published in national level poetry magazines and books. Sara has been a spoken word artist since 2017, a 2024 fellow of “The Queer Writers’ Room” and “Language Is A Queer Thing” by The Queer Muslim Project. Two of their works were published in “Riverside Stories”, a feminist anthology from Assam, by Zubaan books. Being a literature and film major, they also work with translation and film theory, and have had academic publications around the same. They’ve performed at the 2024 Tata Lit Live Mumbai, and The Kolkata Literary Meet 2025 as part of TQMP’s cohort.
Sristi Sengupta is a non-binary, neurodivergent writer, artist, and educator from Kolkata. Their work has been published (or will be published) in The Burningword literary journal, Thread Lit Mag, Metachrosis and other literary journals.
Kinjal Sethia is a writer based in Pune. Her work has been published in nether Quarterly, Gulmohar Quarterly, In Parentheses, Bangalore Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Marrow Magazine, Singapore Unbound, Out of Print among other places. She is a Fiction Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine. She is the co-founder of The Osmosis Poetry Prize.
Judged By: Mona Zote
Mona Zote is a poet living in Aizawl. Her poetry has appeared in various journals including the Cordite Poetry Review, Indian Literature, IQ Magazine, India International Centre Quarterly, Carapace, Sangam House as well as in anthologies such as Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India, the Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, and The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry.
Season II: May'25
Judged By: Mona Zote
Mona Zote is a poet living in Aizawl. Her poetry has appeared in various journals including the Cordite Poetry Review, Indian Literature, IQ Magazine, India International Centre Quarterly, Carapace, Sangam House as well as in anthologies such as Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India, the Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, and The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry.
Kinjal Sethia is a writer based in Pune. Her work has been published in nether Quarterly, Gulmohar Quarterly, In Parentheses, Bangalore Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Marrow Magazine, Singapore Unbound, Out of Print among other places. She is a Fiction Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine. She is the co-founder of The Osmosis Poetry Prize.
Sara Haque (she/they) is a queer Muslim poet from the riverside town of Goalpara, Assam. Their work centres around queerness, faith, memory, language and geo-political marginalizations, via poetry, photography, and other artistic mediums, and has been published in national level poetry magazines and books. Sara has been a spoken word artist since 2017, a 2024 fellow of “The Queer Writers’ Room” and “Language Is A Queer Thing” by The Queer Muslim Project. Two of their works were published in “Riverside Stories”, a feminist anthology from Assam, by Zubaan books. Being a literature and film major, they also work with translation and film theory, and have had academic publications around the same. They’ve performed at the 2024 Tata Lit Live Mumbai, and The Kolkata Literary Meet 2025 as part of TQMP’s cohort.
Sristi Sengupta is a non-binary, neurodivergent writer, artist, and educator from Kolkata. Their work has been published (or will be published) in The Burningword literary journal, Thread Lit Mag, Metachrosis and other literary journals.
Judged By: Mona Zote
Mona Zote is a poet living in Aizawl. Her poetry has appeared in various journals including the Cordite Poetry Review, Indian Literature, IQ Magazine, India International Centre Quarterly, Carapace, Sangam House as well as in anthologies such as Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India, the Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, and The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry.
Season II: May'25
Sara Haque (she/they) is a queer Muslim poet from the riverside town of Goalpara, Assam. Their work centres around queerness, faith, memory, language and geo-political marginalizations, via poetry, photography, and other artistic mediums, and has been published in national level poetry magazines and books. Sara has been a spoken word artist since 2017, a 2024 fellow of “The Queer Writers’ Room” and “Language Is A Queer Thing” by The Queer Muslim Project. Two of their works were published in “Riverside Stories”, a feminist anthology from Assam, by Zubaan books. Being a literature and film major, they also work with translation and film theory, and have had academic publications around the same. They’ve performed at the 2024 Tata Lit Live Mumbai, and The Kolkata Literary Meet 2025 as part of TQMP’s cohort.
Sristi Sengupta is a non-binary, neurodivergent writer, artist, and educator from Kolkata. Their work has been published (or will be published) in The Burningword literary journal, Thread Lit Mag, Metachrosis and other literary journals.
Kinjal Sethia is a writer based in Pune. Her work has been published in nether Quarterly, Gulmohar Quarterly, In Parentheses, Bangalore Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Marrow Magazine, Singapore Unbound, Out of Print among other places. She is a Fiction Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine. She is the co-founder of The Osmosis Poetry Prize.