Two constables burst through the door in the middle of the night and tore a half-awake Raja out of his bed and down a set of stairs, his spine, tailbone knocking into the concrete, over and over and into the elevator. Read it here.

The baby's eyes are brown, and when she sleeps on you, her hand the size of your thumb clutches the hair on your chest, tugging it like you are a garden in need of weeding. Read it here

I’m home from school, face red from the sun, neck itchy from sweat. I consider telling Amma about the woman who followed me today. I have seen her many times by the school gate, observing me, with her rage-reddened face. Read it here.

Pinki hates to beg, the way it makes her feel. But she has no mother or father to take care of her, no other way of making money. She’s up at the Apollo Cinema stoplight, knocking on car windows, tugging at the pants of men on two-wheelers. Read it here.

In Karol Bagh, New Delhi, the streets are narrow, crammed with low-rise houses, people and bicycles and the housewives prefer buffalo milk to cows’. Read it here.

I don’t usually get nervous but I get nervous when my publicist tells me the next city on the promotional tour of my book is Vancouver. My heart beats, beats, beats, makes its own tune. Read it here.

A beautiful man with a rich beard and a nose sharp enough to slice a tomato stood ahead of Viju at the Falafel cart. He looked a lot like the man he’d seen Gita with at the cinema house last week, his Gita, at least she used to be. Read it here.

Asif wants beer. He’s thirsty. An unquenchable thirst that only a good, hoppy IPA can quench. Okay, a good, cheap, on-sale IPA. He indulges once in two weeks, always buys from the store. Never goes to a bar, never. Read it here.

So the man and woman, with their two perfect sons who were of marriageable age, booked a new flat in their younger son’s name because the elder one was already burning his blood repaying the loan he acquired for his education two years ago. Read it here.

Runner up - the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence 2025

Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025

Longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award 2025

Shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2025

Longlisted for the Disquiet International Literary Fiction prize 2025

Winner of the The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Annual Short Prose Competition 2024

Finalist in the CBC Short Story Prize 2024

Shortlisted - Open Season Awards Fiction 2024

Honourable Mention - Craft First Chapters Contest 2023

Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Fiction 2023

Longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize 2023

Shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2022

Runner up in the Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction 2022

Longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award 2020

Semifinalist in the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize 2020

Shortlisted for the Into the Void Fiction Prize 2019

Longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2018

Invited to speak at the 2026 NSWA Speaker Series

Invited to serve as moderator for the mentee icebreaker session at the Writers’ Union of Canada’s national virtual conference.

Kailash Srinivasan says he doesn’t like rules when it comes to writing, and he believes it is neither glamorous nor filled with suffering

The Writers' Union of Canada is pleased to announce that Kailash Srinivasan has won the $2,500 prize for its 31st annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, for the best story under 2,500 words, with his piece “1984.”

CBC Books has announced this year's writers to watch list! Here are 30 Canadian writers on the rise in 2024.

The Baby by Kailash Srinivasan

Your best work is when you’re deep in a character’s head and they do or say something unexpected and you go, “Oh, not bad.”

Featured authors: Holly Flauto, Trish Gauntlett, Eve Lazarus, Aaron Rabinowitz, Kailash Srinivasan, Robin Yeatman, and Clea Young.

September 16, 2025, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm @Delany's Coffee House, 3099 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver

15th Anniversary Showcase featuring Kailash Srinivasan, Dayna Mahannah, Andrea Routley, Carleigh Baker, Dina Del Bucchia and Eddy Boudel Tan

Thursday May 1st, 2025, from 7:00 pm onwards @Iron Dog Books, 2671 E Hastings St, Vancouver