
Aneesha J
- 5 min

Sienna Ponce
- 3 min

Layla Mikel Vilanueva
- 4 min

Mahnoor Shirazi
- 1 min
with Anwesh who is a Visual Designer, Technical and NFT Artist, the first Indian recipient of the Troy Perry Medal of Pride for compassionate Activism, the youngest winner of Mr. Gay World India and creator of 'The Effeminare'. With features in Vogue, Rolling Stones, Grazia, The Hindu and Lifestyle Asia as a breakthrough queer artist, he has taken on the stage of TEDx as a speaker asserting the need to celebrate gender as a spectrum. He blogs and draws at The Effeminare, a
parallel universe where he gets to illustrate the Utopian world he wants to be a part of. He looks at life as a thrilling mystery novel written by God and, since his novel has only started, he’d go with: ‘I am still evolving!’
with Vanessa, an internationally known intuitive, author, tarot expert, and entrepreneur. Her best-selling books, “The Gentle Heart Tarot Deck”, “The Pastel Journey Tarot” and “The Wild Muse Oracle” have been sold in over 136 countries worldwide. Subsequent to creating a large audience on both YouTube and Instagram. Vanessa teaches students from over 26 different countries how they can become great tarot readers themselves.
with Vidhi Bubna, 24, is India’s youngest female master scuba diver, founder of Coral Warriors, CEO of Everest Communications, Youth Ambassador of India and Bhutan, India Ambassador to Space for Humanity, Global Governance Initiative Fellow, and a Royal Society of Arts, London Fellow. With both national and international
accolades, Bubna champions for several causes including gender
equality, marine life awareness, space exploration equality and
empowerment of marginalized communities.
As Youth Magazine completed one year and was rebranded to Empower, we held a Flash Fiction contest and an Illustration Contest to celebrate this feat. We were pleased to receive an overwhelming amount of submissions and we are excited to announce you the two winning illustrations in the Illustration Contest: Richard Stephenson and Du Kha Han. As for the Flash Fiction Contest, we weren't able to declare any winners, because none of the submissions met the guidelines nor were upto the standard we were looking for. We'd like to thank all participants who took the time to write these stories and we extend our heartiest congratulations to the winners!