The 2017 DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction Longlist

DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction: The Long list

25 stories make the long list of the 2017 DNA-OUT of PRINT short fiction special feature. The stories, listed in alphabetical order of the authors’ first names, were selected from a set of excellent submissions that examined the theme ‘Watching’.

The shortlist will be announced next Sunday, December 10.

Judges: Ram Sadasiv and Indira Chandrasekhar, editors, OUT of PRINT

Aditya Mani Jha	Japani Hanuman
Ahana Chaudhuri	Flight
Amritha Dinesh	The Perfect Role
Bhumika Anand	The Gaze
Bikram Sharma	The Loneliest Man in Ward 11, Physiotherapy
Juanita Kakoty	How Acchan Miyan Lost his Mind
Julia Dutta	Then, Who Was the Other?
Jyothi Vinod	Monotony of Hornbills
Krupa Ge	Sudden Departure
Maya Unnikrishnan	110 Roots
Meera Rajagopalan	Thinly Veiled
Michelle D'costa	The Girl in the White Dress
Priya Narayanan	No Woman's Land
Rebecca Mathai	Watching at the Doorstep
Rochelle Potkar	Honour
Sayantan Ghosh	And then One Day
Selma Carvalho	The Blighted Harvest
Shruthi Rao	A Bollywood Romance
Smriti Thakur	The Way to Tuticorin from Konni
Sohini Basak	And if that Looking Glass gets Broke …
Sunil M S	Jellies
Swetha Sadanand	Stalker
Torsa Ghosal	Erhebung
V Sanjay Kumar	Asok
Varsha Tiwary	Mrs Sharma's Toxic Vigil

The 2016 DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction Longlist

DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction: The Long list

Congratulations to the thirty three writers who make the DNA-OUT of PRINT short fiction long list from a set of significantly high-quality submissions themed around 'Dissent'.

The shortlist will be announced next Sunday, November 27.

Judges: Ram Sadasiv, Leela Levitt, Indira Chandrasekhar

Krithika Akkaraju	The Sandalwood Frame
Shivani Bhasin	A Call To Calm
R K Biswas	The Rabbit
Tanmoy Biswas	Trans
Trisha Bora	The Guests
Dishashree Bose	Sharp Sudden Corners
Maxwel Chhetry	Maggu Is Dead
Selma Cravalho	Mand Goes To Church
Michelle D'costa	The Untitled Story
Amritha Dinesh	Venu Decides To Die
Nandita Dutta	Salma
K T Jaidip	Dissent
Vandana Kumari Jena	The Ideologue
Damini Kane	Aleppo
Yuvraj Kumar	A Floating Life
Zui Kumar Reddy	1977
Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla	Sindh 1947
Dyuti Mishra	A User's Guide To Compliance
Shabnam Nadiya	Spin
Prashila Naik	Patience, Ramu, Patience
Anirban Nanda	City Life
Meera Raja	Boyhood
Devika Rajan	Moment of Truth
Pervin Saket	The More Things Change
C G Salamander	Let's Spit On Dolphins
Karthik Shankar	Appa's Scooter
Bikram Sharma	A Vocabulary Of Absence
Dhiraj Singh	The World's Oldest
Rosemary Thomas	Sr. Marianne And The Cause Of Death
Radhika Venkatarayan	Meeting With Madhavan
Jyothi Vinod	Kintsugi
Kulpreet Yadav	The Window At The End Of The Street
bhavani	A Fragrance That Could Have Been

Listed in alphabetical order of author name. Single name authors are listed last.

2015 DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction Longlist

33 stories make the longlist of the DNA-OUT of PRINT Short Fiction Special.

Thank you to all the writers who sent in their work. We were impressed at the ways in which the writers addressed the theme, 'Erosion'. There were many stories about the disintegration of values and relationships, about the ageing of the body and mind, and some based on erosion in nature. The Out of Print editors did not have an easy time identifying the stories in the longlist. But here they are, listed in order of submission date. 

The shortlist will be announced mid-November.

Dipika Mukherjee	A Heirarchy of Grief
Abhay Kumar Dubey	The Missing Sky
Barnali Ray Shukla	Clockwise round the Fire
Indu Suryanarayan	Clay
Mathangi Subramanian	Half Wild
Sowmya Aji	August 15, 2012
Farah Ahamed	Life Will be Better
Sunil Sharma	The Sad Strange Tale of the Muting of Penelope
Puskar Pande	Cost
Suresh S	Pardesi
Neera Kashyap	As Quiet as a Feather Falling
Abha Iyengar	The Marshlands
Trisha Bora	How to Lose a River
Vijay Medtia	Two Hundred Rupees
Nabina Das	The Trains Came Back
Revathi Raj Iyer	Syra's Secret
Michelle D'costa	The Corpse
Yogesh Patwari	The Vegetable Thief
Pravin Vemuri	The Last Rain
RK Biswas	The Books
Meghna Pant	The Good Husband
Sudha Nair	Tethered to the Past
bhavani	Rock Paper Scissors
Kanchana Doraiswamy	Humming Birds
Zui Kumar-Reddy	Anagrams and Barbed Wire Jesus
Devika Rajan	Post Apocalypse
Saikumar	Tatyarao's Story
Kunal Deliwala	The Broken Window
Tanuj Solanki	Reasonable Limits
Prashila Naik	Like the Sun Disappeared Behind the Clouds
Harsh Snehanshu	No Woman's Land
Vrinda Manocha	Mud and Rain
Jyothi Vinod	Memory of a Fragrance