First National Poetry Competition:1988

First prize:

 Vijay Nambisan (New Delhi), for his poem

MADRAS CENTRAL.

Three consolatation prizes:

1.  Vivek Khadpekar (Ahmedabad), for his poem

RUSTOMJEE

2.  Vinayan Bhaskaran (Trivandrum), for his poem

OUTSIDER

3. S. Ganapathi (New Delhi), for his poem

MAKING OF A GOD

Second National Poetry Competition :1990

First prize:

  Rukmini Bhaya Nair (New Delhi) for her poem

Kali Mother and  Me

Special Prizes:

1. Lokesh Deep, (Village Rehnwa, Haryana) for his poem

My Sister, Mother, and Me

2.  Vivek Khadpekar (Ahmedabad) for his poem

All in a Summer's Madness

3.  C. Raju (Bombay) for his poem

My Life

4.  S. Shiva Kumar (New Delhi) for his poem

David

Third National Poetry Competition:1991

First prize:

 Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya (Pune) for the poem

Punarnava

Special Prizes:

5. Hemalatha Shetty (Madras) for the poem

The Archaka

6. Krishna Tateneni (Ohio, USA) for the poem

Re-Entry

7. Sudeep Sen (New Delhi) for the poem

New York Times

Special prize for a Young Poet:

 Shampa Sinha (Australia) for the poem

The Differences

Fourth National Poetry Competition: 1992

First prize

 Shampa Sinha (studying in Australia) for her poem

Siesta

Second prize

 Tarun Cherian (Thiruvananthapuram) For his poem

A Writer's Prayer

Commendation prizes

1. K. Ramesh (Bangalore) for his poem

Guns and Walking-Sticks

2. Oby Nagar (Jaipur) for her poem

Sannyasini

3. Ranjit Hoskote (Mumbai) for his poem

Altamira

4. Anju Makhija (Mumbai) for her poem

Can You Answer, Professor?

Fifth National Poetry Competition: 1994

First prize

 Anju Makhija (Mumbai) for her poem

A Farmer's Ghost

Second prize

 Smita Agarwal (Allahabad) for her poem

Our Foster-Nurse of Nature is Repose

Commendation prizes

1. Rina Singh (Canada) for her poem

The Poetics of Desire

2. Usha Rajagopalan (Anand) for her poem

Voices in the Night

3. Neeti Singh (Baroda) for her poem

Come, Lift Me

4. Ranjit Hoskote (Mumbai) for his poem

Legend Recycled

5. Rufus Daniel (Bangalore) for his poem

The Time of Brahma.

Sixth National Poetry Competition: 1995

First Prize

Tabish Khair(Copenhagen, Denmark)  for his poem

Birds of North Europe

Commendation Prizes

1.Gopi Krishnan Kottoor (Chennai) for his poem

The Coffin Maker

2.Smita Agarwal(Allahabad) for her poem

A Grass Widow's Prayer

3.C.P. Surendran(Mumbai) for his poem

Movie

4.Lalitha Biswas(Mumbai)  for her poem

Anything But the Truth

5.Anthoney Nag(Sambalpur, Orissa)  for his poem

Salvation

Seventh National Poetry Competition: 1996

First Prize

Ranjit Hoskote(Mumbai) for  his  poem

Portrait of a Lady

Second Prize

Gopi Krishnan  Kottoor (Thiruvananthapuram) for his poem

Digging

Commendation Prizes

1.Smita Agarwal (Allahabad)  for her poem

The Lama

2.Anish Vohra(Baroda) for his  poem

Write Your Name Only

3.Vivek Narayanan(Chennai)  for his poem

Monument

4.Vijay Nambisan(Patna)  for his poem

You, Wystan Auden

5.Sudeep Sen (New Delhi) for his poem

Woman with Amphora

Special Prizes on the Theme Related to the 50^th Anniversary of 

India's Independence:

1.Tara Sahgal (Mumbai)  for her poem

Independence Day

2.Raghav G. Nair (Thiruvananthapuram)  for his poem

These Are the Things We Could Talk About

Eighth National Poetry Competition: 1998

First Prize

K. Sri Lata In Santa Cruz (Chennai) for her poem

Diagnosed Homesick

Second Prize

Revathy Gopal Lines on Meeting (Mumbai)  for her poem

A Cousin, Long-Lost

Commendation Prizes

1.Falguni Dutta (Bhubaneswar)  for her poem

Homecoming

2.Supantha Bhattacharyya (Nagpur) for her poem

The Vigilante

3.Acushla R. Narayanan (New Delhi)  for her poem

On Leaving College

4.Gopi Krishnan Kottoor (Thiruvananthapuram) for his poem

The Old Boy's Silver Jubilee Reunion

Ninth National Poetry Competition: 2000

First Prize

 Shahnaz Habib(Delhi) for her  poem

Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones

Second Prize

 Revathy Gopal(Mumbai) for her poem

I Would Know You Anywhere

Commendation Prizes

1. Priyanka Sacheti(Mumbai),For the poem

A Tourist's Impression of New York:
Before and After

2. Moneesha Nayak(Mumbai),For the poem

The Witch's Cauldron