Free Verse Poetry Competition 2017 has been established to encourage aspiring young poets to get recognized for their talent.

In the first year of the contest, we received 600 entries from all over India. Here is the list of the winners and honourable mentions of Free Verse Poetry Contest 2017. We congratulate them on this prestigious achievement. 

Winners

1st Prize: INR 25,000- Ria Juneja- Collective Energies- Chandigarh

2nd Prize: INR 15,000-Abhinav Saikia- Have a Coffee with Me- Patna

3rd Prize: INR 10,000- Uma Jain- Empty Mailbox- Gandhinagar

Top 20 Prize Winners: INR 2,500

Nehal Agarwal-Playtime 101- Pune 

Rashi Mehta- Navigation- Kanpur

Bheema Ruki- Memories of Tomorrow- Delhi

Viswa Verma- Paper and Pen- Kolkata

Saiba Mishra- Retention- Hyderabad

Lavleen Kaur- Oh Darling, what's to talk about? - Mumbai

Rajat Singh- Low Tides - Purulia

Kabir Ujwal- Never mind Sadness- Gurugram

Anshul Shukla- Gemini at Heart- Lucknow

Anukriti Basu- Political Apocalypse- Chennai

Raunak Dhawan- Red Skirt- Hyderabad

P. Jayalalitha - Disturbed- Chennai

Sana Khan- Mindless Days- Punjab

Nivedita Choudhary- Lovers rarely fight- Jammu & Kashmir 

Alex Edward- Bravest Friend- Kerala

Ramya Murli- Platform Number 4- Kochi

Sheila Kumari- Worried Not- Delhi

Aiswarya Patel- Leaving for Buckingham- Ahmedabad

Girish Shah- Selective Memory- Kolkata 

Sarang Ray- Too Indian to Care-Bangalore

Honourable Mentions

Preetha Ashok
Alankrita Bhatacharya
Sneha Roy
Deepika Mariappan
Rachit Bansal
Namrata Chand
Abilash H
Kajal Soni
Shashikant Mourya
Antara Bhide
Deborah Dohling
Bishal Pokhrel
Krishna Kumari
Dimple Gulrajani
Parul Nagar
Parnika Pancholi
Nabeel Khawar
Samir Badwal
Vidhi Popat
Aayushi Jajodia
Sonal Gupta
Aditya Yadav
Chirantani Dey
Devapreeta Jena
Anubhuti Sharma
Nayana Nair
Bhavna Gautam
Nidhi Ravi
Joyce Job
Prince Kumar
Ritumoni Bhuyan
Srivasupradha Ramesh
Akhil Kumar Awasthi
Arushi Sharma
Garima Barman
Sarathi Shah
Rajeev Kumar Sisodiya
Akshay Jain
Amita Chaudhary
Deepika Mariappan
Shrijana Subba
Mayank Manchanda
Aashna Shah
Madhu Mita
Sumaanta Munde
Akshat Tripathi
Jasmina Noor Alam
Vaishali Passi
Aastha Singh
Anamika Singh
Nidhi Bansal
Siri Chenni
Tejashrii Shankarraman
Ankita Arora
Aishwarya Sakhare
Divita Singh
Anubhav Kumar
Mariyam Aafrin
Vrinda Tripathi 
Akanksha Goel
Parul Rastogi
Lalitha Sridevi
Sneha Roy
Tejaswani Kadavakollu
Seethalakshmi Raman
Rashmitha Muniandi
Siya Tiwari
Abhipsa Mishra
Akanksha Singh
Danya Sethy
Kinali Shohe
Debadrita Ghosh
Noopur Sharma
Sonam Chhabra
Shahana Roy
Aparajita Vaid
Wikim Ajang
Paresh Gouda
Meghana S Vatal
Sayantani Majumder
Atreyee Mandal
Sheetal Martine
Paridhi Sanghi 
Piyush Kumar
Chandrakala Ghosh
Panya C.
Anuradha Durvasula
Geon Pauly
Hemant Yadav
Zeeshan Ekram
Pavan Kumar Veldandi
Diksha Nerwat
Nimrah Fatima
Niharika Goel
Preetham Adiga
Anupa Lewis
Payoja Mohanty
Janane V
Thiruvardini Kamalakkannan
Kavika Singhal
Rishika Makharia
V Ravi Shankar
Ruby H
Maseera Hafiz
Prashantha Lingam Sundarraj
Pavithra Hariharan
Rtunjya Gujral
Neha Kaira
Anushree Arun
Sreejith R Reddy
Nishtha Kumar
Saumya Verma
Sanaya Kriplani
Nitika Lath Sharma
Parth Oberoi
Sabhya Gupta
Riya Nagpal
Danish Zoheb
Rashi Jaiswal
Charmi Rawal
Jay Thakkar
Aastha Bhalla
Vivek Kumar Singh
Kirti Wadhwa
Ayesha Izhaar
Somya Khera
Ritika Ray
Sneha Manocha
Stanzin Lhaskyabs
Abhishek Arora
Mikri Riba
Rakhshanda Mujib
Jajati Jena
Naphilakmen Syiemlieh     
Anshika Malhotra
Sadvansha Munshi
Drishti parwanda
Kriti Garg
KRISHNA PACHAURI
Saommya Kesarwani
Divya Venkataraman
Rupesh Ranjan
Tirtha Bakshi
Reetika Trehan
ANUPREETA CHATTERJEE
Ashwarya Agarwal
Samridhi Shukla
Akul Baiju
Preeti Samson
Somdutta Basu
Prabhdeep Kaur
Antara Chakraborty
Amiya Jain
Nitisha Tomar
Trevor Pinto
Shalini Singh
Anuradha Rao
Swapnika Kumar
Shreya Kaushik
Aalakshaya Hira
Amika Sethia
Sarwat Pawar
Gourvi Suren
Shreya Kathuria
Kavya Chakraborty
Achyutam Bhatnagar
CHARU CHANDWANI
Paarijat Dey
Jash Dholani
Sabitri Soren
Kavya Chakraborty
Shreya Kathuria
Himanshi Sharma
Ayush Jain
Meera Desai
Naindeep Kaur Kapoor
Twinkle Kumar
PALLAVI PANDA
Riya Gupta
Sirjan Gaba
Vishal Kumar
Kavya Sharma
Priya Binwal
Vishwajeet Gain
Priyakshi Sharma
Debanjan Ray
Archisha Vedha
Vaishnavi baheti
Zena Krishnoo
Naga Lavanya Desiraju
Sonali Karhana
Ujjwala Singh
Inderdeep Kaur
Malavika Krishnakumar
RAVNEET KAUR
Anshu Deshwal
Mukulika Batabyal
Anshu Deshwal
Dishika Trivedi
RIYA KUNDU
Muskaan Asher
Avantika Chaturvedi
Diwakar Rawat
Abhishek Aggarwal
Maithree Venkatesan
MOHITA VERMA
Arvind P Jayan
Kalaga Nagamanshika
Prateek Joshi
Mudita Raj
Jyothi Priya
Tanya Sahay
RAHUL AGRAWAL
Anushka Das
Ramsanthakamalam Irulappasamy
Ahel Choudhury
Radhika Varma
Arunima Gururani
Sakshi Upadhyay
nishtha panday
Pradyota Prakash
Sherline Modak
Divjot Kaur
Ashima Narwal
Swati Sur
Anushka Agarwal
Palak Shah
RITI KUMAR
Shatakshi Misra
AARUSHI AARUSHI
Nandani Kabra
Moulindu Mandal
nishika dhingra
Nandiinii Gupta
Tanmayi Jandhyala
TOSHAM AACHARYA
Shikha Bhargava
AZMINA UROOJ
ROHIT GUPTA
Pavithra K J
Yashasvi Singh
Bhabna Bhagat
Vandana Devi
Abishake Koul
SREESVARNA BHASKARA MOHAN
Aarish Ali
Prashasti Shreshtha
Ria Kejriwal
Anisha Biswal
Shreya Minocha
Saachi Rajiv Devnani
Aniket Narain
Aashika Suresh
Naisargi Bhatt
Yamini Balasubramanyan
Meghna Chatterjee
Ashish Agrawal
Shruti Shukla
Jasleen Kaur Bassi
Sonam Saluja
Roohi Bhargava
Pragya Roy Barman
Mehnaz Hussain
Meru Vashisht
Tanvi Nagar
Sachita Nishal
Hemangi Chakravarty
Lovish Uppal
Sukriti Honnavalli
SONAM CHHABRA
Palzom Bhutia
preetika Sindhwani
Tarun Purohit
Ishita Singh
SRAVANI SINGAMPALLI
Alolika Dutta
Fengkha Daimary
Akshayashree J Jawaharlal Nehru
Anupriya Dhonchak
Srity Gupta
VICKEY PRASAD
Soham Basu
BHAVINI JAWA
Avantika Srivastava
Jyoti Nautiyal
Mary Monika
Shruti Sonal
Garima Minocha
Sharanya Chakraborty
Maupali Khan
Shubhi Bilgaiyan
Eesha Roy
Jasmine Kaur
Azra Bhagat
Divya Mehra
Reetika Raj
Chhavi Nagpal
Akira Maeno
Bhupesh Karmakar
Anukriti Ashok
Aastha Bhalla
Richa Bose
SAYANTIKA KUNDU
Kritika Bhambhry
Vidhi Thakkar
Harini MS
Yastika Sharma
Harini MS
Nivedita Shinde
Usha Amulya Narem
Loveneet Singh Makkar
Srishti Banerjee
Richika Verma
Sheetal Martine
Avnika Chhikara
Ayushi Garg
Pavithra K J
Nawikrita Tejaswini Rai
Kanu Priya
Isha Kaur
Krati Mittal
Eesha Bajaj
Lavanya Rana
Amiya Jain
Arpita Bhargava
KRISHNASISH JANA

Awards & Certificates

Prize Winners will be contacted shortly via phone and e-mail. Honourable Mentions will receive e-certificates of merit for their distinguished participation.

We thank all participants for sharing their creativity with us. Each poem we received touched our hearts. The competition saw a variety of styles and imagination. The Judging Committee is pleased to have received such a plethora of poetic works.