24/7/25
Following the open call for submissions in April 2025, we’re delighted to announce the official selection, which will be published in an anthology by Renard Press in August 2025. Save the date, as Coventry Cathedral are hosting a launch! (The list is sorted by title – you can search this page with ctrl/cmd + ‘F’ to find a name).
- ‘(No)tifications’ by Nida Sajid
- ‘2-Hours Before the End of the Night’ by Gurpreet Bharya
- ‘A Dancing Peanut Seller’ by M.V. Fabiyas
- ‘About An Ancestor’ by Kavita A. Jindal
- ‘After’ by Suchita Parikh-Mundul
- ‘Aish Karo’ by Priya K. Gill
- ‘Amen’ by Javier
- ‘Amrita Sher-Gil’ by Mira Mookerjee
- ‘Ancestry’ by A.A. Malik
- ‘Arrival’ by Maya Caspari
- ‘Baisaran’ by Menka Shivdasani
- ‘Birthed Right’ by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
- ‘Contours of Silhouette’ by Pravat Kumar Padhy
- ‘Damaged Goods’ by Reshma Ruia
- ‘Devotion’ by Amber Lone
- ‘Excavations’ by Sandeep Kumar Mishra
- ‘Facultative Halwai Feeds the Village’ by Lavanya Arora
- ‘For Jyoti Singh’ by Dhivya Prasad
- ‘Growing Up’ by Vinita Agrawal
- ‘Half and Half’ by Safa Maryam
- ‘Hope is the Thing (in a Red Lever Arch)’ by Rhiya Pau
- ‘How do I swim?’ by Dharishta Peiris
- ‘If You’ by Mymona Bibi
- ‘In Pakistan’ by Moniza Alvi
- ‘Indian wedding video’ by Cia Mangat
- ‘Kal’ by Shasta Hanif Ali
- ‘Litany’ by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
- ‘MAHĀKĀLĪ’ by Kanya Kanchana
- ‘Malignancy Ledger: April, 2024’ by Sekhar Banerjee
- ‘Mandir’ by Anisha Minocha
- ‘Memorial to mango pickle’ by Vijaya Venkatesan
- ‘My Country’ by Rianka Mohan
- ‘Noon’ by Zain Rishi
- ‘Partition’s Pantoum’ by Esha Volvoikar
- ‘Pearls’ by Zahirra Dayal
- ‘Roots’ by Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla
- ‘Running: A Golden Shovel’ by Jay Mitra
- ‘Sutured tongue’ by Koushik Banerjea
- ‘Tea Tales’ by Zaithoon Bin Ahamed
- ‘The Gilded Ghetto’’ by Nishi Chawla
- ‘The list’ by Laila Sumpton
- ‘The Pearl of Africa’ by Neelam Sharma
- ‘The Rusty Shield Bearer Outside my Dadu’s Kitchen Window in Mumbai’ by Mihika Bhattacharya
- ‘The Travelling Sari’ by Sheema Huq
- ‘The Wrong Notes’ by Ashok Bery
- ‘Two loudspeakers’ by Dishani Senaratne
- ‘Under the rubbles’ by Nawshin Flora
- ‘What is a blue fence?’ by Jayant Kashyap
- ‘WITNESS’ by Emerciana Desouza
- ‘Zindaki Khwab Hai’ by Rishika Williams