Pakistani Readers discussion

Ladies and Gentlemen! Short story contest is here.

The competition kicks off with this post. The rules?, same as previous year. You can read them by following the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Write short fiction story, word limit : 2000-2500ish. You can go above it, try to avoid going above 3000.

Do take care of grammatical/spelling mistakes before submission

You can submit your stories till Thursday, 8th August, 2019.
email your stories to following email id: pakistani.readers@gmail.com

Stories will be posted anonymously. Group members will read them and rate them from 1 to 10. Authors are not allowed to identify their respective stories during the rating phase. Just to avoid any kind of favoritism or bias in the rating process. Members are also requested to be honest and respectful while rating/commenting/critiquing the stories.

As always, there would be prize for the winner :)

Best of luck.

If you have any queries regarding the contest, let us know. :)

Why is there two submisson dates?

The submission date is till 8th August 2019.

The other one says 2016.
I think its a copy paster error.:p

Muhammad Ozair wrote: "The submission date is till 8th August 2019.

The other one says 2016.
I think its a copy paster error.:p"

Copy paste error removed :)

Now focus on the writing, I hope you'll be submitting soon. :)

Any specific topic or keyword?

@Faheem
1000 words in.

@Arafat
No specific topic or keyword.You can write about anything you want.

But if you do feel the need for a writing prompt (i know i do sometimes) a google search would be enough.

Where will the stories be published?

I have emailed the story. I want to verify has my email reached you?

The stories will be posted by me as individual threads. I will share the link when they are posted.

and yes, You story was received. Best of luck :)

Four stories have been submitted so far.

Today was the last date, however, we'll give an additional day, so finish and submit your stories till Friday, midnight.

the stories have been posted, here is the link

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

You can read, comment and rate the stories now,

Rating scale would be 1 to 10; try to be objective in your ratings and be civil in your comments, Plus members are requested to rate all the stories rather than a selected few to maintain uniformity. :)

You can Rate the stories till August 25th, 2019.

Authors can reply to comments about their respective stories after the end of the rating process.

PS: Authors are allowed to comment on other stories however, they are expected to add a comment and rating to their own story. (The self rating would not be included in final aggregate score of a story).

best of luck to all the authors. :)

Here are the best stories of the Short Story Contest 2019

Vote for the best story of the contest by visiting following link:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Top three Stories are:

To the Moon and never back...

The thief of desire

The Whore

Poll ends on Saturday 7th Sept. Read the stories if you haven't read them and vote for the best one.

I would like to thank all the authors submitted the stories and the members who took time to read, rated and/or voted for the stories. :)

👍🏻

The poll is over, it was a close race but we have a winner.
The winner story of the short story contest 2019 is

The theif of desire.

and the runner up story is

The whore.

Congratulations to winner as well as the runner up, it was very close, wish you better luck for the next time. :)

This time I don't know usernames of the writers only their actual names. I have asked the winner and runner about their username. I will share the user names as soon I get them.

I would like to thank everyone that participated in this contest especially the writers. Thank you so much for your participation. :)

woww. i m the winner :)

Congratulations to the winner.

Congratulations! 🥳

Congrats!

Dear Friends,
My story The Whore was read and appreciated, I am humbled snd grateful for this. As I am new to GoodReads and using iso app I don’t know much about how to reply to individual comments and how to interact with admin and/or readers hence please excuse me if it felt like not replying to your questions or not thanking the readers.

If any one would like to read more from me my first short collection “Phaney” translated as “The Splinters” is available online on different stores or can be obtained in PDF directly from me.

Thanks once again.

Best Regards

Qamar Sabzwari

Congratulations to the winner and the runner up! :-)

Hi everyone, hope you are well. The short story contest for 2020 is here.

Here is link to main thread: Short Story Contest 2020

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 3rd June, 2020.
email your stories to following email id: pakistani.readers@gmail.com
(Please mention your goodreads id in your email)

Post your question & queries at the main thread of contest or PM me or @Aakash.

looking forward towards reading some awesome stories.

best of luck :)