For those who don't know, Urban Shots is a collection of short stories by 13 Indian authors who told simple stories in their own unique, refreshing way. I had the pleasure of meeting 2 of these authors, Prateek Gupta and Sahil Khan , during my stint in Pune.
Earlier this year, I had taken part in the Urban Shots 2011 Short story Competition.
So did I win and will I be getting published in the next edition of Urban Shots ? That's a question to be answered at a later date. For now, let's just stick to the present topic.
One of my entries did get selected as a Silver Winner for this year's Competition. A Silver Winner is one that does get noticed and discussed, but doesn't make it to the final collection.
I'm providing the link below to the Silver Winner, Heartstrings, a story which when I first posted on this blog, drew a lot of debate on whether it was real or fictional.
I think that's the best part of writing a story for me : when people can identify with it easily and sit back and wonder how much of it is based on truth and where does fiction start.
Well, read it and decide for yourself.
I hope to see your story published, Good luck...
ReplyDeleteAmazing looking blog yaar. Hope ur story gets published. Never heard of this Urban Shots, should grab hold of it sometime :)
ReplyDeletewow...so simple n yet so touching!
ReplyDeleteand this is a real story...my god Madam M-you don't have good enough taste to let this one go:/
all the best for the publishing-i hope those guys have more sense than M to not let something worthwhile go:-)
Saru, thanks.. fingers crossed.
ReplyDeletenkr4068, I've been looking for a change from the old template..finally after 3 days settled on this one. Urban shots is a nice read... short stories not more than 5 pages long each.
Suruchi, haha...the debate begins again - real or fiction :)
:) Extremely touching...
ReplyDeleteShould be published !
Good luck..hope it gets published and many more get to read it.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd the new theme looks real classy!!!
Aathira, thanks.. Just missed the cut.
ReplyDeleteAlka, this wont get published. Silver winners are those which were good, but not good enuf :)
Rohan, thanks man. I struggled with new templates for last few days before coming across this one..even still had to redo the html in some parts...and i'm an absolute dunce in html :)
All the best!! I hope your story will be published... winning the competition is also a matter to be happy....
ReplyDeletethanks Sneha..this wont be getting published..but ya..it feels good to be a Silver winner :)
ReplyDeletecongrats.. I had read this one LONG Ago on your blog.. Definately one of ur best and it surely deserved a prize.. May you keep writting such good stuff always.. Congrats once again..!! :-)
ReplyDeletethanks Doc...ya,i know..it had quite a fan following and was a personal fav for me too...
ReplyDeleteAdipoli...!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope, I wish, I pray that it gets published! Good Luck doc! :)
Cheers!!!!
liked ur new look :)
ReplyDeletesounds interesting :)
Shalini, thanks ya...and congrats to u too.. for u know what :)
ReplyDeleteChakoli, thanks .. I like it too, compared to many of the earlier ones...
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