Season III: July 2026
Shubhi Dixit is a poet and writer based in Pune. Her work has appeared in Gulmohar Quarterly, Poems India, and Parcham Magazine. She was the runner up at the Pune Poetry Slam in 2019. She is the organizer of Poetry Under the Trees.
Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is an alumnus of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and Boise State University’s MFA program. His poems and translations are featured in The Stinging Fly, Asymptote, and other journals. When he isn’t writing, he interviews poets and moonlights as an associate poetry editor for Poetry Northwest. He tweets at @shriiram.
Tuhin Bhowal is a writer, translator, and editor working across Hindi, Bengali, and English. Recipient of the Deepankar Khiwani Poetry Prize 2022, he was a Translation Fellow at the South Asia Speaks Programme – Class of 2025, and has received an English PEN Grant towards translating a novel from the Hindi. Tuhin lives in Bangalore and tweets @tuhintranslates.
Judged By: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
Season III: July'26
Judged By: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
Shubhi Dixit is a poet and writer based in Pune. Her work has appeared in Gulmohar Quarterly, Poems India, and Parcham Magazine. She was the runner up at the Pune Poetry Slam in 2019. She is the organizer of Poetry Under the Trees.
Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is an alumnus of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and Boise State University’s MFA program. His poems and translations are featured in The Stinging Fly, Asymptote, and other journals. When he isn’t writing, he interviews poets and moonlights as an associate poetry editor for Poetry Northwest. He tweets at @shriiram.
Tuhin Bhowal is a writer, translator, and editor working across Hindi, Bengali, and English. Recipient of the Deepankar Khiwani Poetry Prize 2022, he was a Translation Fellow at the South Asia Speaks Programme – Class of 2025, and has received an English PEN Grant towards translating a novel from the Hindi. Tuhin lives in Bangalore and tweets @tuhintranslates.
Judged By: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.
Season III: July'26
Shubhi Dixit is a poet and writer based in Pune. Her work has appeared in Gulmohar Quarterly, Poems India, and Parcham Magazine. She was the runner up at the Pune Poetry Slam in 2019. She is the organizer of Poetry Under the Trees.
Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is an alumnus of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and Boise State University’s MFA program. His poems and translations are featured in The Stinging Fly, Asymptote, and other journals. When he isn’t writing, he interviews poets and moonlights as an associate poetry editor for Poetry Northwest. He tweets at @shriiram.
Tuhin Bhowal is a writer, translator, and editor working across Hindi, Bengali, and English. Recipient of the Deepankar Khiwani Poetry Prize 2022, he was a Translation Fellow at the South Asia Speaks Programme – Class of 2025, and has received an English PEN Grant towards translating a novel from the Hindi. Tuhin lives in Bangalore and tweets @tuhintranslates.