META is the beginning of a screenplay I started as my humble love letter to fantasy, trope and humanity. It was borne from my desire to tell a story about a character escaping her fate as the "woman in the fridge," a trope in which people (usually women) die for the sake of male character development.

The poem in the submission explores the theme of tangible nostalgia, recalling various objects and experiences from my childhood.

Upon starting this piece, I wanted to write about the mental toll that torture, or prolonged repetition, has on the human mind. How do our senses of self “erode” when we are pushed to madness? In this piece, a man who claims to love his family, to do anything for them, is subjected to Chinese Water Torture by an unnamed, un-recognized figure.

This poem describes the connection between my past and present self. I've recently been reminiscing about my childhood years, where life seemed so much simpler.

I think writing is a form of therapy at times, and so I looked at this poem as a way to rearrange words and phrases in a way that could help me face my fear.

I wrote this short story a little while ago when I was thinking about an old friend. I really liked the rough draft I began with and I continued to workshop the story, taking out and adding new parts. While the narrative changed throughout the process, the characters stayed generally the same.

This collection of poems is called Love is Blueming as each poem relates to both love, and the color blue. I chose the color blue because it is a beautiful color that represents many things, mainly loyalty, imagination, and inspiration.

I created this piece of writing a couple of years ago when I was new to the creative writing program and now that I have continued to pursue this talent of mine I've revised and adapted the piece so that I am now able to feel proud of it.

I recently moved to the US from India and my pieces each reflect different emotions centred around my move. Moving halfway across the globe is stressful enough and my first piece 'Hope - A Conquest' talks about how I wake up everyday to find the smallest of things inspiring me to be hopeful when things seem bleak and out of control.

1) This artwork reflects my struggles with family dynamics. It explains the cycle that ensues with a sibling.

2) This artwork reflects the feeling of eagerly wanting to make the person you love happy out of love.

Most of my poetry is very personal and mostly fueled by my emotions at a given moment. This particular poem however is not inspired by personal experience but from a movie I watched called Promising Young Woman.

My piece represents how I perceive a lot of our beauty standards, especially for women. I do believe that the beauty standards are slowly changing, and I really appreciate that.

I wrote this poem in the middle of the night, in the midst of a mental breakdown, and I wasn’t expecting it to be of substance. But I revisited it in the morning and spent some time revising it.