The Million Writers Award for the year’s best online short fiction is now inviting nominations from readers, writers, and editors. The award is for any short story of at least 1,000 words first published in an online publication during 2011. Below you can see a list of Cha stories eligible for the 2011’s award. If you have read a piece and liked it, please consider nominating it here. Deadline for nominations is 9 April, 2012. 

“The Dublin Studio Portrait” by Ram Govardhan.
Published in the February 2011 issue.

“Dorothy’s Song” by the late Margaret Hui Lian Lim.
Published in the February 2011 issue.

“The Perfect Poem” by Vineetha Mokkil.
Published in the February 2011 issue.

“What the Sufi Said to the Aral Sea” by Vandana Nambiar.
Published in the February 2011 issue.

“The Bat Whisperer” and “Catching Iguanas” by Shivani Sivagurunathan.
Published in the February 2011 and November 2011 issues respectively.

“Song for Chongwenmen” by Kaitlin Solimine.
Published in the July 2011 issue (“The China Issue”).

“Faces from the Earth” by L.M. Magalas.
Published in the July 2011 issue (“The China Issue”).

“Blue Lotus” by Isabelle Li.
Published in the July 2011 issue (“The China Issue”)

“Ah” by Genevieve Yim.
Published in the November 2011 issue.

“Broken Numbers” by by Sharon Hashimoto.
Published in the November 2011 issue.

“Improvisation” by John David Harding.
Published in the November 2011 issue.

“Snow Romance” by Gun G. Ayurzana (translated from the Mongolian by Gun and Matthew Davis).
Published in the November 2011 issue.

“The Pen” by Alzo David-West.
Published in the November 2011 issue.

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