Essay
On fear, art, and owning your story on the internet
A lead feature block for one strong essay, Substack post, or personal note. Keep this card for the most important recent work.
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Poetry · Essays · Tender wreckage · Survival
A warm, editorial home for stories that bruise, breathe, and stay.
This concept blends the minimal editorial confidence of Yrsa Daley-Ward’s site with the softer, intimate warmth of Joy Sullivan’s. It is built as a modular starting point for Pratiksha’s poems, essays, Substack writing, and visual storytelling.
Raw, tender stories once buried to survive — now arranged with clarity, air, and room to be felt.
Use this section for a short positioning statement. It can introduce Pratiksha as poet, essayist, storyteller, or artist, and set the emotional tone of the website in two to four lines.
Featured writing
Pieces you may want to land on first
This layout borrows the editorial spaciousness of Yrsa’s site, while keeping the warmer invitation-to-read energy seen on Joy Sullivan’s homepage. citeturn147766view0turn147766view1turn147766view2
Essay
To the woman who gets stuff done (but isn’t)
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On becoming nobody’s daughter
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In my next life, make me a bird.
A modular tile for poems from Instagram, Substack, or future collections.
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If I don’t write today, I die.
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Write a bio that feels literary, not corporate.
Pratiksha Ahuja is a poet and writer based in Goa. Her work moves through grief, girlhood, anger, tenderness, survival, memory, and the strange beauty that keeps returning anyway.
This block should stay around 90–140 words. Enough to give shape, not enough to explain away the mystery. Add publications, performances, workshops, or collaborations below if needed.
Poetry
Essays
Substack
Instagram writing
Substack / current project
Give one thing a pedestal.
Joy Sullivan’s website gives a single book and newsletter a clear sales path. This section can do the same for Substack, a chapbook, a workshop, a reading, or a future collection. citeturn147766view1turn147766view2
“I tell raw, tender stories I once buried to survive.”
Visual storytelling
A grid that can hold poems, reels, stills, and fragments
The Instagram screenshots suggest a strong recurring visual language: poems on clean backgrounds, direct-to-camera reels, and nature-led self-portraiture. This section translates that into a reusable website mosaic. citeturn147766view2
Optional section
Use this area for workshops, readings, speaking, or collaborations.
Readings
Poetry readings, live events, and guest appearances.
Workshops
Writing sessions, creative reflection, or private group offerings.
Collaborations
Brand, editorial, or artist-led collaborations that fit the voice.
Stay close
Subscribe for essays, poems, and the kind of honesty that lingers.
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