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I hope you all are well. I wish you, your family and friends best of health during the current pandemic.

This year's short story contest is here. Get down to writing. As always every member is encouraged to write and participate in the contest. The rules are same as previous years. List here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

There is no specific theme, any type of fiction story would do. The soft word limit is : 2000-3000 word. Limit is bit flexible but it is recommended that you stay close to the limit.

(Please, do take care of grammatical/spelling mistakes and proof read at least once before submission)

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

After the deadline, the stories would be posted anonymously by Mods. Group members would be able to read, comment and rate the stories for two weeks. Scale would be 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest score. Stories with the highest score would be shortlisted for the Final Poll.

Authors are not allowed to identify their respective stories till the winner is announced to avoid favoritism/bias in rating.

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

Best of luck.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :)

hi! this seems really interesting, but i do have a doubt that need clarification:
i've gone through a few of the previous years' contests to get a better idea of how this works (some very nice stories, by the way) and i know that you have to rate everyone's works in order for your ratings to count. does that include your own? i feel like this has been mentioned somewhere, but i can't find where.

Yes if you wish to rate then you must rate all stories including yours. Because stories are posted anonymous. Then while compiling results own vote to the story is dealt accordingly.

@Misty
oh, alright. tysm!

Goodluck! :)

What about language? Can I send Urdu story?

Muhammad wrote: "What about language? Can I send Urdu story?"

yes story can either be in urdu or english. :)

The deadline is over, Thank you for the submissions. we'll go through the stories before posting them. The stories will be posted on Sunday, 7th June.

The submissions will be accepted till the stories are posted. So if you are interested, you can still participate.

Hi everyone, Stories review is complete.
We had a incomplete submission, author needed two additional days to complete it. After discussing it with other mods, we decided to allow it and wait a little bit more.

The stories will now be posted on Wednesday, 10 Jun. Apologies for the delay

the stories have been posted, here is the link

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

Read and Rate the Stories (scale would be 1 to 10);

Please, 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 :)

You can Rate the stories till June 25th, 2020.

Authors advised to reply to comments about their stories only after the end of the rating process.

PS: Authors can comment about or rate other stories. however, they should also add a rating to their own story. (The self rating would be excluded in final aggregate score of a story).

best of luck to all the authors. :)

Voting is over, and محرومِ تماشا with the most votes is the winner story of the contest.

Congratulation to Muhammad Ahmed author of the story and the winner of this years' contest. Your prize will dispatched soon. :)

also, congratulations to Sal, the runner up and author of story, Two lies and a Truth,

Also Thank you, all the other participants as well all those who rated and voted the stories. :)

Congratulations to the winner Muhammad Ahmed! Great job. And also to the runner up, Sal. It was an excellent experience reading your stories and thank you for your submissions.

congratulations muhammad ahmed! wonderful job. you inspired me to try reading more stories in urdu, so i'll be getting on to that soon :)

Congratulations to the winner, the runner up as well as all those who participated!

Thank you very much for the appreciation I received form this platform. This will surely help me to write more and write better.

I am grateful for all the participants who read and praised my story.

I am also thankful for all the members, who have participated in the contest and those who have given their valuable time, ratings and votes.

Special thanks to @Faheem and @Misty for all the beautiful and well managed arrangement of the contest.

Thanks a million!


Muhammad Ahmed

Muhammad wrote: "Thank you very much for the appreciation I received form this platform. This will surely help me to write more and write better.

I am grateful for all the participants who read and praised my sto..."

You are welcome! :) Keep Writing. We will soon contact you regarding the prize so keep checking your inbox.

sal wrote: "congratulations muhammad ahmed! wonderful job. you inspired me to try reading more stories in urdu, so i'll be getting on to that soon :)"

Damn, I'm surprised you wrote my favourite story from the contest. I mean, I could tell it was written by a female but you? Hmmmm

thank you i think but the hell does that mean lmaooo

Congrats @Muhammad Ahmed and @Sal.
You both performed admirably :D .

@Jogi
Aesthetics and empathy are not gender specific. :) Anyone can have eyes to see and heart to feel.

@Muhammad Ozair
Thank you brother! :)

Muhammad wrote: "@Jogi
Aesthetics and empathy are not gender specific. :) Anyone can have eyes to see and heart to feel.

The form in which you express them are indeed gender-specific. Several researches have been done on the matter. Unfortunately I've lost all my bookmarks, I had quite a few research papers documenting the different dimensions in which gender-based differences arise in language usage, although it shouldn't be too hard to google it.

Jogi wrote: "Muhammad wrote: "@Jogi
Aesthetics and empathy are not gender specific. :) Anyone can have eyes to see and heart to feel.

The form in which you express them are indeed gender-specific. Several re..."

First of all, sorry for the late reply as I was on a self-prohibited social media break.

Frankly speaking, I am not much aware of writing techniques. The point of view of the story is the third person, yet indeed the main character of the story is female; however, the feelings are humanistic and not gender-specific in my opinion.

I will be pleased to go through the researches you have mentioned if you could find your bookmarks or any other references.

Congratulations to both of you. You wrote very well. And Muhammad Ahmad you should try getting your story published in some magazine or something you know?

Muhammad wrote: "Jogi wrote: "Muhammad wrote: "@Jogi
Aesthetics and empathy are not gender specific. :) Anyone can have eyes to see and heart to feel.

The form in which you express them are indeed gender-specifi..."

I think this was it.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Document...