WRITING FOR CHILDREN

*The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards ​(PADIBA) Longlist Nominee for A Kurta to Remember, illustrated by Avani Dwivedi,
published by Sleeping Bear Press.  

*Winner of Own Voices Own Story 2022
by Sleeping Bear Press (Cherry Lake Publishing), USA.
A Kurta To Remember - coming Spring 2024.
https://cherrylakepublishing.com/headlines/147
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* Winner of the SCBWI (Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators)
MANY VOICES PRIZE 2021, Illinois, USA.
https://illinois.scbwi.org/diversity-initiatives/2021-many-voices-prize/
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* #PBPARTYFINALIST 2021 hosted by Mindy Alyse Weiss on Twitter.
https://mindyalyseweiss.com/pbparty-entry-4-what-will-the-pockets-carry/
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* Winner of the Pratham Books Storyweaver
Retell, Remix and Rejoice contest 2017, India.
https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/32247-my-aaji-has-a-tail
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*Things I Learn from Children's Picture Books - an article published in Prairie Wind
- magazine for the Illinois chapter
of the Society of Children's Books for Writers and Illustrators. 
https://illinois.scbwi.org/files/2022/07/Prairie-Wind-Spring-2022.pdf
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*Red Tricycle Spoke Contributor.
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*Featured on India's leading
all-moms-club - First Moms Club (a community of Indian mothers.) Click here.
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