WE Awards Judges Panel
Nishat Haider Taseer Gujral Somrita Urni Ganguly
WE Literary Advisory Panel
Kiranjeet Chaturvedi Maya Sharma Sriram Pervin Saket
WE Founder
Smeetha Bhoumik
WE Anthology Editors (Equiverse Space – A Sound Home in Words)
Smeetha Bhoumik (Chief Editor), Kala Ramesh (haiku), Abha Iyengar (Flash fiction), Taseer Gujral (Poetry), Md. Farhan (Review)
Yugen Quest Review Founding Editor
Smeetha Bhoumik
WE Core
Vinita Agarwal Nishat Haider Taseer Gujral Gayatri Chawla Somrita Urni Ganguly Shuchi Kapoor Smeetha Bhoumik
WE- ICWP Book Prize: Inspiring Circle of Women Poets who offer Inspiration, Community, Wonder & Peace Prize
Abha Iyengar Lily Swarn Shweta Rao Garg Maya Sharma Sriram Jasmine Khurana Tikuli Dogra Pervin Saket Srividya Sivakumar Ishmeet Nagpal Smeetha Bhoumik
WE Poetry Award Winners
WE Kamala Das Poetry Award, 2018 – Anna Sujatha Mathai
WE Kamala Das Poetry Award ’20 – Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta
WE Eunice de Souza Poetry Award ’20 (English) – Menka Shivdasani
WE Eunice de Souza Poetry Award ’20 (Hindi) – Savita Singh
WE Trailblazer Poet Teacher Award ’20 – Kala Ramesh
WE Trailblazer Poet Teacher Award ’20 (Posthumus) – Eunice de Souza
WE Gifted Poet Award ’20 (Emerging Voices) – Jagari Mukherjee, Rukhaya MK
WE Special Recognition Certificates
WE Special Recognition Certificates
1. WE Glowing Diamond
Somrita Urni Ganguly
2.WE Sci-Fi Awards : Scintillating, Creative, Impactful – Feminine Power Initiates
Shuchi Kapoor . Neha Mishra Jha .
Urna Bose
3. WE – The Force.
Maya Sharma Sriram
4. WE – Divine Verse
Pervin Saket
5. WE Poetry Fairy
Rochelle Potkar
She walks on magic
6. WE – Spoken Diva.
Jasmine Khurana
7. WE -Diva of the World
Lily Swarn
8. WE – Glowing Aesthete
Shweta Garg, Tikulli Dogra
9. WE – Courageous Voice
Antara Banerjee
10. WE Brilliance
Srividya Sivakumar
11. WE – Gifted Core
Nishat Haider, Taseer Gujral, Vinita Agrawal , Gayatri Chawla , Somrita Urni Ganguly. Smeetha Bhoumik, Shuchi Mehta Kapoor
WE Poe-Tree Green Heart Award 2022
Categories – Earth, Diva, Meritorious
Earth
WE Earth Green Hearts Awards 2022 Recipients – who took us back to earth!
With Exemplary Poetry, Participation, Resilience during #CeWoPoWriMoWE ’20, ‘21
Amita Paul Rituparna Khan
Diva
WE Diva Green Hearts Award 2022 Recipient – for lighting up our world with verse!
And for Exemplary Poetry & Participation during #CeWoPoWriMoWE ’19 ’20, ’21 and WE Online Readings, Celebrations
Lily Swarn
Meritorious
WE Meritorious Green Hearts Award Recipients – for exceptional contribution to WE Literary Community, WE Awards and Poetry
Nishat Haider Taseer Gujral Somrita Urni Ganguly
Poets, Artists, Writers, Performers
Poets, Artists. Writers, Performers who have participated in WE Readings/ WE Awards/ Poetry Calls/WE Anthology / WE Celebrations (Sept ’16 till date)
Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal Keki Daruwalla Sujatha Mathai Priya Sarukkai Chabria Kala Ramesh Menka Shivdasani Bina Sarkar Ellias Sanjukta Dasgupta, Santosh Bakaya Anju Makhija Arundhathi Subramaniam Radhakrishnan Pillai Nisha JamVwal Paramita Mukherjee Mullick, Lily Swarn Anjali Purohit Pratibha Saraf, Baisali Chatterjee Dutt, Chitra Desai Jayashree Hari Joshi Steffen Horstmann Kalpna Singh-Chitnis Jael Uribe Anil Menon Sucharita Dutta-Asane Kiranjeet Chaturvedi Vanessa Ohri Hemant Divate Smruti Divate Sanjeev Khandekar Sudeep Sen Onir
Taseer Gujral Nishat Haider Pervin Saket Rochelle Potkar Ila Joshi Vinita Agarwal Maya Sharma Sriram Neha Mishra Jha Mallika Bhaumik Sumana Roy Lopa Banerjee Mehak Mirza Prabhu Shuchi Kapoor Ishmeet Nagpal Aekta Khubchanani Urna Bose Ruby Kapoor Gayatri Majumdar Jasmine Khurana Gunjan Pant Pooja Bhadange Pooja Mehta Shweta Markendeya Gayatri Chawla Jhilmil Breckenridge Sharon Irani Smita Sahay Nabina Das Ankita Shah Harnidh Kaur Prakriti Kargeti Mrinalini Harchandrai Amrietaa Arun Rochelle D’Silva Trupti Shetty Ramneek Singh Simar Singh Sudeep Pagedar Sanket Mhatre Jackie Thakkar Anish Vyavahare Amit Shankar Saha Kinshuk Gupta Madhu Shyam Sundar Sharma Swarada Bodas Priyal Panchal Nikita Parikh B Bhubeneswari Ash Kalim Rakhee Pant. Debarati Sen, Shyamolima Saikia Vidya Shankar, Antara Banerjee, Neha Mishra Jha, Jasmine Khurana, Urna Bose, Sonali Pattnaik, Debarati Sen, Suchita Parikh-Mudul, Amrita Valan, Sangita Kalarickal Krivosikova and others…
Collaborations – Rochelle Potkar – Arcs of a Circle Artists’ Residency, Kiranjeet Chaturvedi, Write & Beyond Group, Women Scream International Poetry Festival, US Consulate, The Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Ankita Shah, The Poetry Club, Sanket Mhatre, Crossover Poems, Amit Shankar Saha, Rhythm Divine Kolkata, St.Paul’s Institute of Communications, G5A, The Habitat, Canvas Laugh Club, Palladium, India International Centre (IIC), Delhi.
Celebrating Women Poets, 2018 – WE with Rhythm Divine Kolkata for Women Scream International Festival 2018
Featured poets on March 31 were Kasturi Patra, Gayatri Chawla, Urvashi Mukherjee, their poems presented as : ‘Lilac Belongs to Devi’.
Featured poets on March 30 were Nabanita Sengupta, Sutapa Chaudhuri, Sanjukta Sarkar and Shikha Bhandari Srimal.
Featured poets on March 29 were Santosh Bakaya, Ruma Chakraborty and Monica Oswal.
Featured poets on March 28 were Jayashree Hari Joshi, Kaberi Roychowdhury & Monalisa Jena (being featured again).
Featured poets on March 27 were Nabina Das, Manisha Manhas, Mandakini Pachauri, Mandrita Bose, Ayesha Salma and Sayani Manna.
Featured poetson March 26, ’18 were Aparna Singh, Minerva Sarma, Srividya Sivakumar, Meera Nair, Sharanya Bhattacharya and Dipanjana Gupta.
Their poems are presented in three segments – ‘Gone, Unnoticed’, ‘Teak on Fire’ and ‘Breeze & Butterfly’.
Featured on March 25 were Sharmila Ray, Akila Gopalakrishnan, Anindita Bose, Shelly Bhoil, Amanita Sen and Prarthana Mahato.
Featured on March 24 were Sufia Khatoon, Mona Zote, Smeetha Bhoumik, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Kripi Malviya and Mona Lisa Jena.
Featured on March 23 were Gayatri Majumdar, Gauri Dixit, Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind, Sunanda Bhadra, Saheli Mitra and Jagari Mukherjee
Featured on March 22 were Anju Makhija, Bobby Bains, Aparajita Datta, Sakoon Singh, Sravani Singampalli and Geethanjali Dilip
Featured on March 21 were Taseer Gujral, Reena Prasad, Lina Krishnan, Eisha Sarkar, Ruth Pal Chaudhuri and Nikita Parik.
Featured on March 20 were Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Nabanita Kanungo, Meenakshi M. Singh, Saima Afreen, Aakriti Kuntal & Nandita Samanta.
Featured on March 19 were Menka Shivdasani, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Abha Vatsa, Namrata Pathak, Ipsita Ganguli and Satabdi Banerjee.
Featured on March 18 were Anna Sujatha Mathai, Malsawmi Jacob, Jhilmil Breckenridge, Maya Sharma Sriram, Rita Bhattacharya & Sophia Naz.
Featured on March 17 were Bina Sarkar Ellias, Kala Ramesh, Lily Swarn, M. Padma Shri, Mallika Bhaumik, Shruti Goswami.
Featured on March 16 were Sumana Roy, Vinita Agarwal, Sana Mohammed and Anjana Basu.
Featured on March 15 were Rochelle Potkar, Pervin Saket, Lopa Banerjee, Sanjukta Dasgupta. Rhythm Divine Poets & Women Empowered-India will present wonderful women poets everyday during March 15 – 31.
Today, WE Nominated Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal for The Global Woman Award 2022
A very proud and happy moment for us today, March 31, 2022, as we nominated one of the most inspiring creative persons on earth for the Global Woman Award 2022. Mahabanoo Mody Kotwal, along with Menka Shivdasani, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Vinita Agarwal, Taseer Gujral, Rochelle Potkar, Sonia Rao, Nabina Das, Hemant Divate, Smruti Divate, Gayatri Chawla, Anjali Purohit, Onir, Jhilmil Breckenridge, Priyal Panchal and many others, had inaugurated the founding celebrations of Women Empowered-India (WE) Literary Community in September 2016. She has graced many WE Readings, Book Launches and Celebrations as our a very special Guest of Honour.
WE – TREE
Today, WE are a creative, collaborative, engaged community acknowledging the immense contribution of women to poetry, art, life and literature. There is so much beauty in our bonds, a growing resilience in our hearts.
All this has been possible with the way we collaborate, create, share and celebrate the gifts each one of us is blessed with. WE are getting closer in essence now to our beloved ‘Trees’, our roots deep, branches strong and fruits borne of mindful care.
This is the best time for the WE Poe-TREE Green Hearts Award 2022 to come into being, with gratitude, acknowledging a greening of hearts and minds, that surely precedes a greening of the world outside.
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