The Salam Award

Introduction:

The Salam Award Writers Workshop for Speculative Fiction is returning with its sequel workshop in 2025! Hosted by The Salam Award and the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS), the residential workshop will take place from February 17 to February 27, 2025, at LUMS in Lahore, Pakistan. Award-winning authors Karen Joy Fowler and Amal El-Mohtar will join the event as lead instructors.

Participants:

Syeda Raazia Naqvi
Maliha Rao
Ammara Younus
Saher Hasnain
Maeeda Khan
Sahar Majid
Omar Ali Jehangir
Kehkashan Khalid
Raazia Sajid
Tooba Afraz
Maryam Rana
Zaynah Abbas
Ayesha Malik
Maryam Zahid

Instructors

Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022 and was long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Amal El-Mohtar:

Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). She is co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the multiple award-winning This is How You Lose the Time War. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She has been the New York Times’s science fiction and fantasy columnist since February 2018, and she is represented by DongWon Song of HMLA.