 Ponnani Edasseri Smaraka Samithi selected Ashitha's work, "Vismaya Chhihnangal" for Edasseri Award in 1986 and she received the Lalithambika Anterjanam Smaraka Sahitya Award in 1994.Her short story anthology, "Thathagatha", fetched her the Padmarajan Award in 2000.Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected "Ashithayude Kathakal", another short story anthology, for its annual award for story in 2015.