Abhilipsa Sahoo

23 • ♋ • she/her • ex poetry editor @thelevatio • 1 x best of the net nominee • words in @teenink, @youngpoetsnet, @publishedbyjake, @bendinggenres and more

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

ocean vuong on metaphor via instagram stories 💮

[The Chakkar @TheChakkar]

Poems by Abhilipsa Sahoo: ‘I was a little bird slowly blooming out of the warm embrace of the nest to learn the taste of first flight, believing that distance was proof of growth. Now I’m just tired of being the burnt-out lamp on my parents’ windowsill’
https://t.co/sqF8RhUllC

[Rebekah B Leekley @RSBradford]

@John_Attridge My words will have embedded kill-switch capabilities.

As soon as they sense being read they will self-destruct before your eyes.

[Ankit Raj Ojha @ankit_raj01]

In Abhilipsa Sahoo's "The Haunting of Chill House", trendy sisters encounter an in-house ghost in tune with the times.

I interviewed @_abelisaurus_ about her cool plot line, and more:
https://t.co/WaAHYw8kLb

Get THE BARE BONES BOOK OF HUMOUR here:
https://t.co/6UnSShluHT

12/n

[The Chakkar @TheChakkar]

‘If traced on paper, life is a culmination of two axes: time and money. Add a third and, maybe, call it energy. Despite the crests and troughs, the line always resolves into the same answer: I’m not coming home this time.’

Two Poems by @_abelisaurus_ https://t.co/sqF8RhUllC

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

@havehadhavehad at this point need a support group for everyone who narrowly missed the deadline 🫠

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

@havehadhavehad Missed it by couple seconds, I guess? 😭

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

two new poems of mine are up on @TheChakkar 💕

[The Chakkar @TheChakkar]

‘the wall’s long chest is marred by uneven blotches—
microcosmic clusters spanning several realities

pressed into layers of plaster. Somewhere,
inside its crevice, a brother ant must be learning

the slow grammar of fatherhood’

Poems by @_abelisaurus_ https://t.co/sqF8RhUllC

[Univ of Hyderabad @HydUniv]

📜✨ Mubashira Patel wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2025 ✨📜

The Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2025 has been awarded to Mubashira Patel 🎉✍️, a 26-year-old postgraduate student of Sociology at Mumbai University 🎓. Selected from a field of 126 entrants, she was chosen by a distinguished jury comprising poet Sharmistha Mohanty 🌿, founder-editor of Almost Island, along with two faculty members of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad 📖.

Mubashira, who has been writing since the age of eight ✨, describes herself as “a literature aficionado, an amateur philosopher, and a newly published poet.” Her academic and creative pursuits often intersect, engaging with themes of marginal voices and cultural memory 🌍, articulated through a lyric form and a commitment to emotional excavation 💫.

The jury also accorded special mention 👏 to Abhilipsa Sahoo for her noteworthy work.

Instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust 🕊️ and jointly administered with the Department of English, University of Hyderabad 🎓, this prize is widely regarded as a significant recognition of excellence in poetry written in English 📜 by poets in the age group of 20–40 years.

The 17th edition of the Prize 🏆—consisting of a citation and ₹15,000 cash award—will be presented on October 25, 2025, marking the 100th Birth Anniversary of Srinivas Rayaprol 🌟.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/j3LFWMrptJ

#SrinivasRayaprolPoetryPrize 🏆 #MubashiraPatel ✨ #UniversityOfHyderabad 🎓 #PoetryPrize 📖 #LiteraryTrust 🕊️ #IndianPoetry 🌿 #CreativeWriting ✍️ #YoungPoets 🌟 #PoetryInEnglish 📜 #LiteraryExcellence 🌟 @vpavarala @pavarala @rayaprolprize

[@yashasviv @yashasviv1]

The very first issue of our magazine Tiffinbox Review is out. The theme was Weird. Weirder. Weirdest featuring 25 poems by 21 writers.

https://t.co/OBaro2LZA1

@kunjana_p
@talkingpeach
@_abelisaurus_

[Ankit Raj Ojha @ankit_raj01]

We're getting closer to publication. Meanwhile, click on the link below to know the authors of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓.

https://t.co/usY6Yfi0VG

More soon...

[Bare Bones Publishing @BareBonesLLP]

THE BARE BONES BOOK OF HUMOUR

Meet the contributors.

https://t.co/uUozT2VdkE

[Bare Bones Publishing @BareBonesLLP]

We're pleased to reveal the line-up for THE BARE BONES BOOK OF HUMOUR. Expect hauntings, hijackings, funerals, godmen, real estate vultures, jilted lovers, wild chases, nether parts, and more!

Releasing in January 2026. Stay tuned.

Editor: Ankit Raj Ojha
Artist: Prakash Thombre

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

@thebeavermag Hey @thebeavermag are the acceptance/rejection mails out already?

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

... I love this life,
I whisper into my doctor’s stethoscope

so she can hear my heart. My heart, an heirloom
I didn’t inherit until I thought I could die.

—Andrea Gibson, RIP

(from the second half of this stunning poem, "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice...")

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

@mere_rain @publishedbyJAKE glad you enjoyed it 💛

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

“We are all trying to change
what we fear into something beautiful.”

—Kelli Russell Agodon

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

so good
'the most important nonsense/ of my desperate and embittered life.'

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

keeping weirdos at bay one poem at a time! 🤓 read full poem here @publishedbyJAKE 💕

[JAKE @publishedbyJAKE]

weirdos in your dms? @_abelisaurus_ gets it:

https://t.co/sqEwu6qJtW

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

@havehadhavehad wow some really intense skull-thirst out here!!! 😭