2023 Salam Award Winners
The joint winners, finalist, and honorable mentions for the 2023 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced.
Winners
- “Earth 747”, Saud Ahmed
- “The Shoe Shop Jinn”, Sakina Hassan
Finalists
- “Softly Unalone”, Ayesha Malik
Honorable Mentions
- “Solarpunk”, Maaz Ismail
- “A Hidden Haven”, Radiyah Numan
- “An Act of Subtitution“, Rana Saadullah Khan
The Salam Award, “a short story award to promote science fiction and related genres of writing in Pakistan,” is an annual prize open to original fiction of 10,000 words or fewer written in English by authors who must be “currently residing in Pakistan, or be of Pakistani birth/descent.” Judges for this year’s award were Samit Basu, Mohammed Hanif, and Arley Sorg. The official award page lists the winning prize as Rs 50,000, publication on the Salam Award site, review by a literary agent for potential representation, and review by an editor for possible publication.
For more information, see the Salam Award site.
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