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2021 | News

No One Can Save Anyone

Short story, No One Can Save Anyone, shortlisted for 8th annual Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA).

Thirty-six writers from a wide range of working class, LGTBQIA+, Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds were today (13th July 2021) shortlisted for the 8th annual Creative Future Writers’ Award (CFWA).

The UK’s only national writing competition and development programme for all underrepresented writers, the Award celebrates exceptional writing from people who traditionally lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, identity, health or social circumstance.

www.creativefuture.org.uk/new-story/thirty-six-underrepresented-writers-shortlisted-for-creative-future-writers-award-2021

2021 | News

Spread the Word

Special mention for the Life Writing Prize, Spread the Word.

www.spreadtheword.org.uk/life-writing-prize-longlist-2021

2021 | News

Queen Victoria in the Basement

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021, amongst top 200 stories.

2020 | News

Thin Air

Short story published in Middle of the Sentence, The Common Breath Anthology, Scotland. Available to purchase.

thecommonbreath.com/onlineshop.html

2020 | News

Dil Bahar

2019 | News

Shortlisted for Primadonna Prize

The shortlist for the inaugural Primadonna Prize has been unveiled at the Primadonna Festival weekend, dedicated to championing women writers.

Around 1,000 people attended the festival at Laffitts Hall in Suffolk with five authors in the running for the £500 prize and offer of representation by British Book Award-winning agent Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown…

www.thebookseller.com/news/primadonna-prize-shortlist-unveiled-inaugural-festival-hailed-success-1078601

2019 | News

The Primadonna of Anarkali Book Market

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2018 | News

Shortlisted for The Screen Craft Award (USA)

The Salehs, shortlisted for The Screen Craft Award (USA).

2017 | News

Poached Eggs

The short story, Poached Eggs, is the joint winner inaugural Gerald Kraak Award. Featured in Pride and Prejudice Anthology, published by The Other Foundation, (South Africa).

Pride and Prejudice is a collection of the short-listed entries to the inaugural award, named after Gerald Kraak (1956–2014), who was a passionate champion of social justice and an anti-apartheid activist.

Poached Eggs is described as a subtle, slow and careful rendering of the everyday rhythms of domestic terror that pays homage to the long history of women’s resistance; yet with wit and humour and grit, the story also sings of freedom, of resistance and the desire to be unbound.

jacana.bookslive.co.za/blog/2017/05/26/farah-ahamed-and-sarah-waiswa-joint-winners-of-gerald-kraak-2017-award

2017 | News

The Helper of Cattle

The Helper of Cattle, a short story  commissioned by Comma Press for Conradology; Celebrating the work of Joseph Conrad. Available for purchase.

Born in what is now Ukraine to Polish parents, naturalised as a British citizen, and schooled on the high seas of international commerce, Joseph Conrad was a true citizen of the world. His novels bore witness to the dehumanising repercussions of empire, explored a world in which state-sponsored terrorism ruined individuals’ lives, and pioneered complex narrative structures and subjective points-of-view in what was to become the first wave of literary modernism.

To mark his 160th birthday, 14 authors and critics from Britain, Poland and elsewhere have come together to celebrate his legacy with new pieces of fiction and non-fiction…

commapress.co.uk/books/conradology