2023 Deodar-BLF Prize Anthology

Featuring the best ten stories from the first edition of the Deodar prize, this anthology is a collection of sparkling voices from different parts of India. Join us in supporting new writing : read here for free, or write to us for print copies at [email protected]

Winner and Runners-up

Special Mentions

Shortlist 2023

'Lake Saroma'
Supreet Saini
Mumbai

'Mute'
Spandan Rana
Bengaluru
 
'Gestating'
Unmana
Mumbai
 
'Amphibians by Night'
Malcolm Carvalho
Bengaluru
 
'Your children are not your own'
Reha Mitra
Mumbai
'The Jam Boy'
Praveen K
Trivandrum

'Under Pressure' 
Sukrit Nagaraj
Mumbai


'Roots'
Ava Arjun
Kochi


'The January Night'
Shambhobi Ghosh
Santiniketan
 
'The Three Unsaid Words'
Satyen K. Bordoloi
Mumbai
'Ants'
Ratul Ghosh
Bengaluru
 
'Appetite'
Chirag Tulsiani
Kolkata
 
'Bats of Paradise'
Samruddhi Ghodgaonkar
Jalgaon
 
'Funeral for a Demon'
Srividya Tadepalli
Chennai
 
'The Older Woman'
Srila Roy
Johannesburg, South Africa
'Gustakh Radio'
Amit Singh
Mumbai


'Lambs in September'
Sourabh Gupta
Noida


'Miss Morphine'
Ananya Mahapatra
Delhi
 
'Oranges for Thangam'
Angel Kolady
Bengaluru
 
'One fell in my neighbours garden' 
Kshitij Bahl
Gurgaon

Jury 2024