The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik

The story was also nominated for the Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. His story, 'The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn', won the British Fantasy Award for best novella in 2016. In conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge, he led Pakistan's first speculative fiction writing workshop in Lahore in 2014, which featured Musharraf Ali Farooqi as a guest speaker. In 2014, Malik became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction with his story ' The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family.' That story was also nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards.

That same year, he attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. 'Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall' was published on the Daily Science Fiction site in June 2013. He had two stories published in The Crimson Pact series edited by Paul Genesse: 'A Demon in the Mughal Court' in volume four (2012) and 'Hearts in Reverse' in volume five (2013). The following year, 'The Well That Never Ended' was published in Deep Magic #23. His story, 'The Crimson Storm', was published in Thirteen Stories #10 in 2003. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award (2016), nominated again for the Stoker Award (2018), has twice been a finalist for the Nebula Award, and has been nominated for multiple Locus Awards. He is the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction (2014) and has won the British Fantasy Award (2016).

His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Black Static, and in a number of 'year's best' anthologies. Malik is a Pakistani speculative fiction.

Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction (2014).

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik