Awards | Reshma Ruia | Leicester Writes | UNESCO Poetry Competition

Winner of the 2023 Diverse Book Readers’ Choice Award
Shortlisted for The Diverse Book Awards 2023
Shortlisted for the 2022 Eastern Eye Award for Fiction for Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness
‘Postcards from Oxford Road’ shortlisted for the 2022 Manchester Culture Awards
Third Prize Winner in the LWB Page 100 writing competition
Shortlisted for the Aurora National Short Fiction and Poetry Prize 2020
Shortlisted for the Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize 2019
Nominated for Lost Balloon’s Best of the Net in Poetry for Mrs Dalloway Kind of Day
Shortlisted for inclusion in the Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide Anthology Competition
Shortlisted as Best Anthology in the Saboteur Awards for May We Borrow Your Country
First Collection Poetry Award 2019 awarded by the Word Masala Foundation
Longlisted for the TSS International Flash Fiction Competition 2019
Longlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2018
Longlisted for InkTears Short Story Contest 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 Leicester Writes Award
BBC National Short Story Award 2018: My story, Amma made the top 60, from almost 1000 entries
Longlisted for the 2017 BAME/Guardian Short story prize
Shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds literary Prize
First Prize two years running in UNESCO Poetry Competition