Dropwords is a home for India's poets — and the start of a bigger path. Enter free monthly challenges, win real cash prizes, and help us build the bridge from poetry to screenwriting and paid creative work.
"You revealed yourself and left me spellbound — you parted me even from my own self."
₹90,000+ in prizes every year · Free to enter · 5,000+ writers
Dropwords is a poetry community today, and we're building toward something bigger — a real bridge from poetry into screenwriting and paid creative work.
Free monthly poetry challenges. Real cash prizes. Craft training in ghazal, nazm, and doha — with screenwriting on the way through Dropwords Screen.
Join as a CreatorWe're a small, founder-led team in Nagpur growing a real community of poets. If backing that mission interests you, we'd love to talk.
For InvestorsNo followers required, no portfolio needed — just your voice and a challenge to enter.
Monthly poetry competitions. Free to enter, with real prize money every cycle.
This Month's ChallengeStructured lessons in metre, rhythm, and form — with a screenwriting track in development.
Explore the CourseWinning work is published and shared. We're building the path to paid, produced work next.
See What's PossibleGhazal taught rhythm. Nazm taught structure. Doha taught economy. We think poets already have the instincts great screenwriters need.
Ghazal, nazm, doha, free verse. Monthly challenges with real cash prizes and a growing archive of your work.
Screenplays, dialogue, and visual storytelling, for writers who want to take their poetry instincts further.
Two glowing shelves from our archives.
A new theme each month. Write, we publish, your readers decide. The most-loved poems win — and you can win again every phase.
Dropwords was founded by Akash Chapke, alongside co-founders Durgesh Wajge and Arpit Katolkar, out of Nagpur, Maharashtra. We run monthly poetry competitions, teach the craft through our course, and are now building Dropwords Screen — the next chapter.
We're early. We're honest about that. If the mission of building a real, sustainable home for India's writers speaks to you — as a creator, an investor, or a partner — we'd love to hear from you.
Join Dropwords today — it's free, your readers are already here, and Screen is coming next.