- Winning Story 2024
A Shrine by The Sea
by Syed Zain Haroon
The ocean is alive; unknowable and inscrutable, it is a churning and writhing beast with a silver sheen and a dread majesty that stretches beyond understanding. But for tonight it performs an unholy ventriloquism; crying out to the two men in the voice of a drowned worshipper of another god.
Finalists
| The Shopkeeper's Remedy | The 11th Wish |
|---|---|
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by Manahil Bandukwala |
by Raazia Sajid |
Honorable Mentions
| On the Moonglow Road | Hexes on Exes |
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by Ramsha Farooq Raja |
by Zuha Siddiqui |
Judges for 2024
S.B. Divya
S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru and Machinehood. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. Find out more at sbdivya.com
Max Gladstone
Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and once wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat. He is the author of many books, including Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. His dreams are much nicer than you’d expect.
Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is online at vajra.me. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, and his short fiction, anthologized in The Apex Book of World SF, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year among others, has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His second novel Rakesfall is out in 2024.