Results of the Horror Short Story Festival (2022)

The academy of Messengers of Peace and Civilization appreciates all dear participants for submitting their brilliant horror short stories to the festival 2022. Through two levels of national and international evaluations, Ms. Maryam Darabi, author of “Zagakhil” has been announced this season’s best author.

We congratulate her efforts and wish her more and more success. 

Results of the third tournemnet of Schmitt and Hinuber Literary Prize (2021-2022)

 

Hosted by the Messengers of Peace and Civilization (M.O.P), the Schmitt and Hinuber competition attempts to support potential authors of peace related topics. Results of the third tournament which opened for submissions in December 2021, have now been determined.

Unfortunately, the scores did not meet the criteria for the grand prize, yet winning authors along with the title and language of their winning submissions are:

1) “And they looked upon …” an English short story by Ali Forouzfar, Excellent

2) “Short Blue Waves” a Persian short story by Zahra Naiemi, Very good

3) “Woman of Peace” an Arabic short story by Alsafa Altameemi, Good

4) “Hyenas do not like cold food; Bermuda Triangle; Maghsad Café” a Persian trilogy by Erfaneh Mohammadi, Diba Babaei, Kimia Ghermezi, Good

(Winning authors are contacted to receive their certification.)

The names of those who passed the first round of judging are also listed below:

Fatemeh Azimi,

Neda Ovysi

Peyman Salehi

Mahdieh Akhtari

We wish all the participants of the third round of Schmitt and Hinuber literary contest continued health and many moments of joy.