The Salam Award

The Smokecense of Pluvistan

Nihal Ijaz Khan

In Pluvistan, the city where it always rains, a father and daughter struggle at the end of all life to find her mother’s faith and the tree that will reunite them with her in heaven.

Finalists

Into The Light Door One-Seventy-One
by Zunaira Nadeem
by Hira Awais

Honorable Mentions

Of Sweet Seas and Starlight Visions of Host
by Zahra Mukhi
by Eman Kamran
Jinns
by Mehak Khan

Judges for 2020

Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h, short fiction for almost forty years. She currently acquires short fiction and novellas for Tor.com and the new Tor horror imprint Nightfire. She’s edited more than ninety anthologies, and has won multiple awards for her work.

A.T. Greenblatt

A.T. Greenblatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she’s known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and baking experiments.

Sami Shah

Sami Shah is a multi-award winning writer and comedian. He’s been profiled in the New York Times , ABC’s The Australian Story, BBC Radio 4, , NPR, and appeared on QI with Stephen Fry, and The Project.

Reviewing Editor: Ellen Datlow
Reviewing Agent: Michael Curry