We are happy to reveal our shortlist for the 2025 edition of Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest. We had over three hundred submissions this year, and have truly enjoyed reading your stories. Here, in alphabetical order, is our final shortlist as selected by author and professor of creative writing, Samrat Upadhyay:
- ‘The Brontosaurus’ by Achala Sharma
- ‘Chapter Five’ by Anurag Upadhyaya
- ‘No Country For Neptes’ by Kundan Shrestha
- ‘The Chicken at Maitighar’ by Mihika Maharjan
- ‘Grapes’ by Pallavi Shrestha
- ‘A Suitable Match’ by Paridhi Acharya
- ‘Between Slides and Soup’ by Samin Niraula
- ‘In the morning, the cock sometimes crows’ by Sandesh Ghimire
- ‘The Uterus Uprising’ by Shreya Joshi
- ‘The Girl from Sikali’ by Suyog Singh
- ‘Dosa’ by Ujjwal Nabin Tripathee
- ‘Geetanjali Hall’ by Urza Acharya
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers! We’ll be contacting you individually soon and hope to meet all of you during the Award Ceremony.
We thank all the writers who took the time to share their stories with us. We hope you will continue to write and reach out to us with your writing projects.
The Award Ceremony for this year’s Writing Nepal will be hosted at 2:00 pm, Friday, Dec 26, at Malpi Institute, Baluwatar, Kathmandu. Samrat Upadhyay will announce the winners during the program which will feature short readings by the winners. The event is open to everyone.
