Neethu Krishnan

Writer and Poet

I'm a writer based in Mumbai, India. I hold postgraduate degrees in English and Microbiology and write across genres at the moment. My creative nonfiction, poetry and fiction have been curated in 35+ international publications so far.

Publications

Nonfiction

  • Of Golden Babies - Exposed Brick Lit, Issue 6, Dualities

  • Time as measured in respites - The Four Faced Liar, Issue 3

  • The Elephant Bag Chronicles - Prairie Fire Spring 24 Issue

  • To the ones greyed by the blue-stringed ventriloquist - For a Friend Anthology, Lucent Dreaming

  • Girl, Sunsplit - Bacopa Literary Review

Poetry

  • The Infinite Tap - Symphonies of Imagination, Issue 3, Offline

  • Six poems in Erbacce Poetry Journal 78

  • Blue Ghost Fireflies - Terra Verses, Elixir Verse Press

  • Her Body as a Receptacle for a Devi - The Body's Experience of Religion, Flipped Mitten Press

  • Prayer - Flint, "Wish" Issue, Erro Press

  • The Way Time Warps in a South Indian Hamlet - Fu Review Berlin, Issue 11, Still

  • Black Hole - The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon, Brick Street Poetry

  • Meteor - Bleed Error, Vol 2, Paradox Ghost Press

  • A Vine of Thorns Dreaming of Blooms - Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 10

  • Masterclass for the Lone - Spoonie Journal, Vol 1

  • 11 Poems - Organic Ink, Vol 5, Dragon Soul Press

Fiction

  • Dream Bones - Rhapsody of the Spheres, Third Flatiron Publishing

  • Adhya's You-Point-O Journal - Terra Mágica (Portuguese translation)

  • The Yakshi of Asthikaavu - Uncanny & Unearthly Tales, Grendel Press

  • Night of the Butterfly - Desire to Escape, Four Palaces Publishing

  • The Yakshi's Barter - 99 Fleeting Fantasies, Pulse Publishing

  • Fireflies and Thieves - Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging, Vol Silver, Improbable Press

Achievements

  • Bacopa Literary Review 2022 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner

  • Best of the Net 2022 Poetry Nominee

  • Shortlisting in 2023 Brilliant Flash Fiction Contest

  • Longlisting in Speculative Literature Foundation's (SLF) A C Bose Grant 2023

  • Longlisting in SLF Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grant in 2022, 2023, 2024

  • Longlisting in 2023 Brilliant Flash Fiction Contest

  • Longlisting in Invisible City's 2023 Blurred Genres Contest

  • Semi-finalist in Kinsman Quarterly's 2024 Iridescence Awards in both short story and poetry categories

  • Semi-finalist in Kinsman Quarterly's 2024 Presence Award

  • Longlisting in 2024 Erbacce Poetry Prize

  • Longlisting in The Prose Poem's 2024 Spring Short Competition

  • Finalist in Louisiana State University of Alexandria's 2024 Flash Fiction Contest

  • Shortlisting in 2024 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize