- Winning Story 2019
THE PUPPET MASTER
Kehkashan Khalid
In the small town of Mehrkot, where behaviours and beliefs are set in stone, Gul dares to dream bigger. But when all her attempts to leave end in failure, she must dig through family secrets and confront the sinister truth that all is not quite what it seems…
Finalists
| Compound | The Third Feather |
|---|---|
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by Umair Khan |
by Fatima Taqvi |
Honorable Mentions
| The City of Mitr |
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by Sadia Khatri |
Judges for 2019
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is an award winning novelist and short story writer. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and been widely translated. It has gar-nered the world Fantasy Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, The Shirley Jackson Award, The Nebula, and others.
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Mohanraj wrote and edited Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and thirteen other titles.Her books have been finalists for the Asian American Book Awards , Lambda, Rainbow, and Bisexual Book Awards. Mohanraj founded Strange Horizons, directs the Specula-tive Literature Foundation.
Maha Khan Phillips
Maha Khan Phillips is a Pakistani novelist, and author of The Curse of Mohenjodaro, Beautiful from this Angle, and The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby. She is also a multi-ple award winning financial journalist.