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Creative Non-Fiction
The Devil's Invitation
"Bloody images crowd my mind — the only difference between us is that you choose to hide them. I don't."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Tortured Poets' Club
"We're not the only heavy fools who feel this way."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
When The Spirit Finds The Lighthouse
"the anchor was never the island — it had always been the spirit."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School · New Delhi, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Maybe This is Growing Up
"There are people I miss for no dramatic reason — because my days used to include them, and now they don't."
Ranveer · Delhi National Public School · Gurugram, India · May 2026
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Poetry
the place I crawled back to.
"as if every wound in me still believed mercy lived there."
Yuktha P.L · Christ University · Bengaluru, India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
Lilith
"Something I buried with my own hands refused to stay buried."
Fiana Islam · East West University · Dhaka, Bangladesh · May 2026
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Poetry · Suite
Ordinary Devotions
"she tells herself this is not pretending. / just… arranging."
Aaranya · Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
The Light On
"For Kartik it was still the language his thoughts moved in when he was tired."
Sumit Chauhan · Aporia Literary Journal · India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदुस्तानी
Tera Zikar — Your Presence in Every Word
"You are like the fragrance of rain that cannot be seen, yet is felt in every emotion."
Samprita Badhei · Sambalpur University · Odisha, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Hiraeth
"Sunday morning breakfasts, the 'stupid' pocket money, and your diaries are all that's left to cherish."
Samridhi Priya · Delhi Public School, Ranchi · Jharkhand, India · May 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
ਉਡੀਕਾਂ — Longing
"There is not a single night in whose dreams you do not appear."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Hawa da Paigam — Message of the Wind
"Love has undone many Ghalibs before me."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदुस्तानी
Kaise Bayaan Karun Meri Baatein… — How Do I Give Words to What I Feel…
"You are my confusion, and the resolution hidden within it too."
S.smita Sayaanaa · Independent Literature Student · Odisha, India · May 2026
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Poetry
I Found the Nectar in My Mind
"It dims, it dims, shines the grimmest grim — It's in, solely in."
Ishita Roy · Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Dum Dum · West Bengal, India · May 2026
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Poetry
Waiting for Rain
"But still / I sat there waiting / Knowing it will rain."
Rishika · JECRC University, Jaipur · India · May 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
Midnight Revelations
"All I ask for is for someone to look closely enough, and to be able to see me without the need for an explanation."
Aahana Singh · The Ardee School, New Delhi · India · May 2026
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Poetry
What It Feels on the Other Side
"You choose what feels easy, / Not what feels real."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School, Coimbatore · India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी
यादों की महक — Fragrance of Memories
"The farther I drifted away from you, the more your memories became entwined with mine."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry · Shayari · हिंदी
दिल के टुकड़े — Pieces of the Heart
"I handed the key of my heart to a thief."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · Punjab, India · May 2026
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Poetry
To The Moon
"Someone shields them from the human eye, / Someone so divine."
Krishnapriya · PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Belagavi · Karnataka, India · May 2026
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Poetry
My Part of the Story
"But I'm still hoping / That someday I'll stop nodding, / And talk, my part of the story."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
I know one thing, You'll never stay
"I'll be the night born from evening, / I'll stay with the light you'll provide me to shine."
Shruti Soni · Poornima University · India · May 2026
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Poetry
An Earthly Mist
"These hurdles are hard to cross. / And so is the river."
Aaradhya Chaudhary · New Doon Blossoms School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
The Genesis Of A(I)
"Here I am, the intangible human, / Whom you love to hate the most."
Debabrita Dhar · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Red
"I see red now — the colour of truth I tried to hide."
Avni Devlal · New Doon Blossoms School · India · May 2026
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Poetry · Shayari · हिंदी
दिल के टुकड़े — Pieces of the Heart
"I handed the key of my heart to a thief."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Beyond the Smile
"She shrunk, spoke in signs, / All because of the lies."
Shrinikka B · Yuvabharathi Public School · India · May 2026
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Literary Essay
The Grammar of Grief: Ghalib, Jaun Elia, and the Inheritance of Despair
"A grammar of grief, passed across more than a century, by a tradition that found ways to remember itself through a partition."
Sumit Chauhan · Aporia Literary Journal · India · May 2026
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Poetry · हिंदी / اردو
Guman — गुमान
"Are you real, or merely an illusion I created? / That is the only question I carry."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School · India · May 2026
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Poetry · Triptych
Flesh over Flesh
"the craving for finality / mistaken for / flesh."
Sriyukta · University of Lucknow · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Mulberries
"some berries raw, some fully ripe, / some burst like memories now — / smiles we never knew were temporary."
Shaunak (Aeon) Pathak · Vellore Institute of Technology · India · May 2026
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Poetry
This Is Not Our Last Goodbye
"The walls whispered goodbye, / I hugged the pillars and cried."
Riddhima Negi · St. Francis School, Indirapuram · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Pluvial Resurrection
"The falling drops kissing the warm, waiting earth. / Dusty paths turn dark and fragrant."
Anubhuti Baral · Rajendra University, Balangir · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Glory
"Maybe the winner and the so-called lost / Both light the same cigarette at the same cost."
Kanak · St. Francis School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Dove: A Monologue
"You write with my whites, your chapters / What if nature collapses minutes within?"
Ankitarani Deep · Rajendra University, Balangir · India · May 2026
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Short Fiction
One Sentence That Changed Me
"Sometimes, one sincere sentence spoken with love and belief is enough to rebuild a broken heart."
Gulsanam Mamasiddiqova · Andijan State University · Uzbekistan · May 2026
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Personal Essay
On Certainty
"Perhaps we cannot be too certain about uncertainty either, because if we are, would curiosity not be killed all over again?"
Astha Priyadarsini Thati · Central University of Odisha · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Special
"Like dust can't stop falling for the books in the shelf / Like flowers cannot resist the sun"
Aratrika · Burdwan Model School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
The Little Girl
"She was the moon, with no tide to pull. / Her chest echoed like an abandoned hall."
Sharanya Dan · Burdwan Model School · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
The Book That Stayed While I Learned to Leave
"They were never only about the story. They were about the version of you who was reading them."
Nehal Sharma · Symbiosis Center for Management Studies · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
The Habit of You
"So maybe all it deserves is an essay I'm too afraid to let anyone read."
Pranjal Singh · N.K. Bagrodia Public School · India · May 2026
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Personal Essay
Paris Sucked, But You Made It Better
"It didn't matter that Paris itself was underwhelming, because I spent it with my dad."
Chelsie Grajales · Adelphi University · United States · May 2026
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Prose Poetry
The Departed Chapter
"This departed chapter of her shall forever remain the soul of my lifeless body."
Abdul Wasey Khan · Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan · May 2026
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Poetry · English · اردو
Hasrat-E-Deedar — حسرت دیدار
"a door with a lock / yet lost its key / a key only restored by its دیدار"
Abdul Wasey Khan · Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan · May 2026
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Personal Essay · मराठी
Ganraya — गणराया
"After waiting a whole year, the golden day rises — and within it, how those ten days pass, one cannot tell."
Viksha Yeshodar Poojary · Shankar Narayan College · India · May 2026
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Poetry
Silence Between Generations
"He gave me a vibrant smile, / Silence burning through a thousand miles."
Akshita · Ashok Hall Girls' Higher Secondary School · India · May 2026
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Poetry
After you
"Not everything lost is meant to leave, / Some memories are how we breathe."
Eknoorjeet Kaur · St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur · India · May 2026
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Poetry
a spurious chat
"you remain. / if not a being, a program. / feeding on our lives, our resources, / our affection."
Sophia Passar · Napa Valley College · United States · April 2026
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Opinion & Analysis
The Nuclear Paradox & The NTG Doctrine
"We have spent eighty years treating nuclear weapons as a political problem. They are, in reality, a systems-design problem. And we have not yet built the system capable of solving them."
Sumit Chauhan · Aporia Literary Journal · India · April 2026
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Poetry
The Season of Unasked Questions
"I have learned to hold silence the way water holds the shape of its last container — formless, yet remembering everything."
Priya Mehta · University of Edinburgh · Scotland · April 2026
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Short Fiction
The Cartographer's Daughter and the Maps She Never Burned
"She inherited two things from her father: his compulsion to name everything, and the knowledge that every map is also an erasure."
Lena Marchetti · Università degli Studi di Milano · Italy · April 2026
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Personal Essay
On Learning Silence from My Grandmother
"She spoke four languages and chose none of them to say what mattered most. I used to think that was a tragedy."
Mei-Lin Huang · National Taiwan University · Taiwan · April 2026
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Flash Fiction
The Last Interpreter
"In the year they decided emotions needed licensing, she kept translating anyway — grief into gesture, longing into almost."
Sofía Reyes · Universidad de Buenos Aires · Argentina · April 2026
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Poetry
Diaspora, Interrupted
"My mother folds distance the way oceans fold coastlines — always taking something back, always leaving something behind."
Amara Diallo · Sciences Po Paris · France · April 2026
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Creative Non-Fiction
Before the City Wakes
"At 5am the streets belong to the people who never really left — the ones who stayed out too late or rose before the world remembered to watch."
James Okafor · University of Lagos · Nigeria · April 2026
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