- Winning Story 2020
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 |
|---|---|
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by Zunaira Nadeem |
by Hira Awais |
Honorable Mentions
| Of Sweet Seas and Starlight | Visions of Host |
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by Zahra Mukhi |
by Eman Kamran |
| Jinns |
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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.