Call for Submissions: Entries for Fiction Issue
by Himal Southasian

Background
Himal Southasian is published by the not-for-profit The Southasia Trust, Lalitpur, Nepal. It is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice.

For over two decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Independent, non-nationalist, pan-regionalist – Himal tells Indians and Nepalis about Pakistanis and Afghans, Sri Lankans and Burmese about Tibetans and Maldivians, and the rest of the world about this often-overlooked region. Critical analysis, commentary, opinion, essays and reviews – covering regional trends in politics and economics with the same perspective as culture and history, Himal stories do not stop at national borders, but are followed wherever they lead. 
Description
​Himal Southasian's fiction takes the reader on a journey through the places and imaginations of the region: from digital spaces to mountains of Afghanistan, narratives of LGBT life to a meta-narrative of a woman’s agency, and gushing rivers to winding roads.  

Himal Southasian invites you to submit entries for a special issue on fiction. They seek previously unpublished fiction by writers from the Subcontinent (including those of Southasian origin). The selected entries will be published in their forthcoming fiction issue. 
Guidelines
  • Submissions should adhere to an approximate word count of between 2,500 to 3,500 words.
  • Submissions should be previously unpublished and in English.
Their fiction page will give you an idea of the kind of fiction they have published in the past. Please go through the Submissions page for Himal’s publishing policy and writers' guidelines or write to them at [email protected] for queries.
Submission Deadline
Submissions should be sent between May 23 – June 5, 2016 
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