Vinita Agrawal

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Mumbai
US

Author's Bio

Author of Words Not Spoken and The Longest Pleasure (Finishing Line Press, USA), Vinita is a Mumbai based, award winning poet and writer. She won the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for literary excellence 2015. Her poems have appeared in Asiancha, Constellations, The Fox Chase Review, Pea River Journal, Open Road Review, Stockholm Literary Review, Poetry Pacific and over a 100 other national and international journals. She was nominated for the Best of the Net Awards 2011, awarded first prize in the Wordweavers Contest 2014, commendation prize in the All India Poetry Competition 2014 and won the 2014 Hour of Writes Contest thrice. Her poems have found a place significant national anthologies like Suvarnarekha and Dance with the Peacocks in several international anthologies compiled in Australia. She was co judge for the Asian Cha Poetry Contest 2015. She has given readings at two SAARC events in Delhi and Agra. She also read her poetry at Hyderabad at an event organized by the U.S. Consulate to celebrate the Women Poets Of India, at Delhi for Delhi Poetree at the launch of Word Wine an an anthology of her poems and at Mumbai, Cappucino Readings, an eclectic platform showcasing poets from India and abroad.
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Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Voices Across Generations (Authors Press, 2015)
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Homeward Bound (Cyberwit.net, 2014)
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Voices Across The Ocean (Cyberwit.net, 2014)
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The Dance Of The Peacock (Hidden Brook Press, 2013)
Chapbook:
The Longest Pleasure (Finishing Line Press, 2015)
Journals:
Constellations
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Cyclamens and Swords
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Pea River Journal
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The Fox Chase Review
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Zingara Poet
Prizes won: 

* Winner of Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Prize awarded
By Ananda Mandir, NJ, USA

* Second Prize in VAANI.ORG contest 2015
http://www.vaani.org/2015/07/vaani-awards-winners-2015.html?m=1

*First Prize in contest themed on Mother by www. hourofwrites.com
https://hourofwrites.com/archive/entry/id/663

* First Prize in Wordweavers Contest 2014
http://www.wordweavers.in/contest_results_2014.html

* Commendation Prize in the All India Poetry Competition
2014. http://www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral14.htm

* First Prize in hour of writes contest on Before The Party
Nov 6th 2014
* First Prize in Hour of Writes Contest in Feb 2014

* Poem A Birthplace But No Memories nominated
for the Best of the Net Awards 2011 by CLRI

* Third Prize in Wordweavers contest 2013

* First Prize in the NIRBHAYA Book contest
November 2014
https://www.facebook.com/notes/nirbhaya/entry-7-attracted-to-sin/881604378540317

* Winner of Miracle Magazine's Contest on Mask

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Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Victoria and Abdul by Shraboni Basu, Poems by Faiz by V.G. Kiernan, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, Becoming A Mountain by Stephen Alter, What Gives Us Our Names by Alvin Pang

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
South Asian
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Children, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Incarcerated individuals, Seniors, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English, Hindi
Born in: 
BIkaner
India
Raised in: 
Kolkata
India
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Last update: Feb 03, 2016