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"Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava," (River Paw Press, 2023) a poetry collection by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, with its Ukrainian translation by Volodymyr Tymchuk, a poet and Lieutenant Colonel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been named a finalist at the 14th Annual "International Book Awards." "Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War, Resistance, Hope and Peace," (River Paw Press, 2022), curated and edited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis has been shortlisted at the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards.
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis' poems from her award-winning book "Bare Soul" and her poetry film "River of Songs," written and directed by her, will travel to the Moon. Her poems included in the "Nova collection" of the Lunar Codex Time Capsule will launch with SpaceX "Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander mission to Oceanus Procellarum" and her short film "River of Songs" included in the "Polaris Collection," of the Lunar Codex Time Capsule, will travel with SpaceX "Astrobotic Griffin lander, NASA VIPER rover" mission to the Lunar South Pole in 2023.
"The Tree" wins the Best Experimental Short Film Award at the North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival, screens at America's Oldest Film Fest, "Columbus International Film and Animation Festival, and receives an Honorable Jury Mention Award at "Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival."
"The Tree," written and directed by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is also the winner of "The Best Environmental Film Award" at "Crown Wood International Film Festival" and "Gangtok International Film Festival" in June 2022. "The Tree" has been officially selected at several film festivals, including Maui Film Festival, Near Nazareth Film Festival (Israel) and the "Cinema e Ambiente Avezzano" film festival in Italy, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
AWP NEWS ––– "Creative Activism in Words and Action: Writers and Activists at the United Nations" panel discussion at 2022 AWP with Rachel Bowen Pittman, Christopher Merrill, Dunya Mikhail, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis & Megha Sood has concluded. Download the panelists' statements at- lifeandlegends(dot)com/events/2022-event/