https://www.gauraashekhar.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-03-30 https://www.gauraashekhar.com/readings daily 0.75 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1590264233902-H9CUH1PI61T71PEO02Y9/51148741_10100832146368954_8171427940681121792_o-1.jpg Readings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gauraashekhar.com/other-significant-others daily 0.75 2020-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592742622542-SWRQOIKHHU8OQP0IIXF2/OSO Other Significant Others https://www.gauraashekhar.com/home daily 1.0 2022-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/0cf4a74d-7b0d-402e-b984-f804ff539e66/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-22%2Bat%2B09.16.27.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gauraashekhar.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/500adf2a-e849-4c5f-bca0-5a995ecd6eb1/1273163_10151916524643679_638648789_o.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gauraashekhar.com/publications daily 0.75 2022-05-07 https://www.gauraashekhar.com/media-strategy daily 0.75 2022-03-30 https://www.gauraashekhar.com/book daily 0.75 2022-03-30 https://www.gauraashekhar.com/selected-work daily 0.75 2022-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1590266265267-ECK0LAWWTM9J9V337S6W/Screen+Shot+2020-04-22+at+09.16.27.png Selected Work Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact. Her fictions and essays have appeared in Nimrod, CRAFT, Sonora Review, Contrary, Literary Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Toast, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and currently serves as a Contributing Editor for Story. Learn more here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1598626394420-7I6SVGXCGRH9VQ86SFJ9/Point+of+Extinction.png Selected Work “Point of Extinction” Published in Funicular Magazine, Issue 05, November, 2020. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592570365999-ZIP15I7AKQX66V2630QM/Skippy_BendingGenres Selected Work “Skippy” Published in Bending Genres, Issue Sixteen, August 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1593535594531-U3OUULZEQYJP7DWP68VE/B-2.png Selected Work “Ben, Across the Booth from Molly” Published in (mac)ro(mic), July 8, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1602175479866-8P5NC6ITR34JZMBJUR51/19.png Selected Work “Old Friend” Published in No Contact, Issue Eleven: Tricks and Treats, October 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1612267754298-V1NUCM1GJ6DEMMP5BH5Z/coop.png Selected Work “marissa cooper is proud of what she did and she’d do it again” Published in Hobart After Dark (HAD), February, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592651406865-ACMFLV3GWFXJ2VTBDSJV/BATHWATER.png Selected Work “Bathwater” Published in Contrary ’s Spring/Summer 2020 issue. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592570755205-KH61067HFELLYQARVDTP/international_airport.png Selected Work “International Airport” Published in Fiction Southeast, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592569359610-3N2TTT9SJC3E80SVR10R/SUBMISSION.png Selected Work “Submission” Published in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, May, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1631366779071-IUBCEDIX2OOWTKI3YMSX/1.png Selected Work “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” Reprinted in CRAFT, September 10, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1613753100443-AM04RLYR0PM6SXY040AO/A+Wedding+in+Uluwatu.png Selected Work “A Wedding in Uluwatu” Published in Vol.1 Brooklyn, February 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592654174795-J6XMD5EXQB405VZ77U9H/Gauraa+shekhar.png Selected Work “Performance Piece” Published in No Contact, Issue Three, June 18, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592889562546-IONE4DACZI7QEX0ZYNWH/Perils.png Selected Work “Perils” Published in Flash Fiction Magazine, June 19, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592608160976-VNCYJCXHCEGPV6DB9ARB/Other+Significant+Others.png Selected Work “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” Published in Nimrod Journal’s Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Vol. 63. No. 2, Words on Play. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1593568890961-4NNTZOWCYRQ45LKXT3ZR/Write+About+Race.png Selected Work “Write About Race” Published in Rejection Letters, September, 2020. Online. Reprinted in Issue Two of Neutral Spaces Magazine, January, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592653152464-V28Y8N8EFCNICVGKX69K/everything+else+is+just+exposition.png Selected Work “Everything Else is Just Exposition” Published in X-R-A-Y, June 14, 2020. Online. Featured in X-R-A-Y’s Summer Reading Collection I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592572468348-OKV4Y5JYEX14DGIWAMU8/my+life.png Selected Work “My life is so fun and adventurous!” Published in Sonora Review, Issue 77, September 2021. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1631366975262-NIRZHMUM0VGA9Z1NRZRJ/Paradise Selected Work “Paradise” Published in Little Engines, September 2021. Print and online. Request a copy here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1590069722914-L3A15V336OXRPG5LPBXJ/onetreehill.jpg Selected Work “20 Fave One Tree Hill Songs” Published in The Wild Honey Pie, Spring 2016. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1605550746159-RW33Y2EDFYWLJ0RC8ZK5/Gently+Loved+Uptown+Apartment+with+High+Ceilings+copy.png Selected Work “Gently Used Uptown Apartment with High Ceilings” Published in The McNeese Review, Spring 2021. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1600978938389-5ALRSNMHOYQXP8D7XWB1/1.png Selected Work “Fences” Published in No Contact Issue Ten, September 24, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1593003485156-4SRCYUYWYKTCYA8FFAMO/A+REAL+CONNECTION-3.png Selected Work “A Real Connection” Published in Derailleur Press chapbook Conversations With Men, 2020. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1593638582822-0398637XHNOGQBS5RW9E/Total+Viewer+Experience.png Selected Work “Total Viewer Experience” Published in No Contact Issue Four, July 2, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1597063669067-AUGK5EEIJJOOZZH0HJ63/1.png Selected Work “Taylor Swift’s Holiday House” Published in No Contact Issue Six, July 30, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1594912765840-ZF2PYPW1V820S7E9BYJC/The+Birth+of+Quarantine+Zines.png Selected Work “The Birth of Quarantine Zines” Published in Literary Hub, July 16, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1597339697014-R07VGBM5KRLHA4F8TCVF/FROM+SCRATCH.png Selected Work “From Scratch” Published in No Contact Issue Seven, August 13, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1594913618790-P9P6UGB7T8ZEO65EVJJ4/artificial+weather+system.png Selected Work “Artificial Weather System” Published in No Contact Issue Five, July 16, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1591717161752-QIZSGITSU715C7SD26XZ/EZ_5LxbU0AM57ze.jpeg Selected Work “June 7, 2010” Published in Past-Ten, June 7, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592564552100-T7ATYMTUGOK3XK6JOEKH/Shaky+Allies-2+copy.png Selected Work “Shaky Allies” Published in No Contact, Issue Two, June 3, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592653501843-QBCYW0GPBKPVDUUTZ360/AT+HOME%2C+TWICE+REMOVED.png Selected Work “At Home, Twice Removed: Living in Triple Exile” Published in The Toast, Spring 2016. Featured in The Aerogram’s round-up “Grab Some Ghee & Savor Some Brown Slices of The Toast”. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592565537061-EXYE7Q6UNN5ESC6WMFAW/the+green+book+of+steely+dan+references.png Selected Work “The Green Book of Steely Dan References” Published in New York State Music, Fall 2014. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592563990538-5GJSSXTY93S8S6T488BM/DaylightHaunting.png Selected Work “Daylight Haunting” Published in No Contact, Issue One, May 20, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1595625298685-3NS4Z2IQJLN8DM7I4O4D/POND.png Selected Work “Cosmological Repercussions of Boundless Solitude: Revisiting Claire-Louise Bennet’s Pond” Published in Triangle House Review/Housebound, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1595625267115-7UDFKQCEZY8WVZ1NBP70/New+sport+collection.png Selected Work “Review of Helen DeWitt’s Some Trick: Thirteen Stories” Published in Columbia Journal, May, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1595625219249-QPRAFEALBPYEIWVG60LA/ADIHA.png Selected Work “Review of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands” Published in Columbia Journal, May, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621253199036-8GLX5UESF1SHCPB0V30L/Phoebe+.png Selected Work “Inside Voices: A Conversation with the Founding Editors of No Contact” In phoebe, September 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621253359546-HSQYX152HNSX2YDEKOVF/Untitled+design-14.png Selected Work “Six Questions for Gauraa Shekhar and Elliot Alpern, Founding Editors of No Contact” In Six Questions For…, October 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958479293-O2IY30XK3SILBLJQ25Q7/7.png Selected Work “Real Life is Dangerous All of the Time: An Interview with Elle Nash” Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1598626864545-3KGW7HNOJYZGP6J4WQ5U/3.png Selected Work “Building Normalcy With a Ring of Fascination Around It: An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano” Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1605325175366-99D349OFMUBYMLM7GDBN/9.png Selected Work “Weaving in the Warped: An Interview with Jules Archer” Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1599226080594-SASCCDVO6MDOLRYK8K46/Greeting+Photo+Birthday+Instagram+Post-2.png Selected Work “A Very Different Landscape: An Interview with Diane Cook” Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1627915513489-YN89EJM5OOXINC6172LF/Adam+Thompson.png Selected Work “Experience What We Experience: A Conversation with Adam Thompson” Published in The Rumpus, July, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958300484-3GWYQW6KKQBA6K9KN8W0/5.png Selected Work “Into Liberatory Futures: An Interview with Chris Martin” Published in Maudlin House, December, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1597340282291-XC9J6MHLQYJHCC681AWZ/MarySouth Selected Work “Going Where the Pleasure Is: An Interview with Mary South” Forthcoming in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1600978728392-LVIZ1CUT3BX9W3K8U14Z/Greeting+Photo+Birthday+Instagram+Post-2.png Selected Work “Section Breaks Felt Like Benches: An Interview with Nicolette Polek” Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621255494424-PB9URYLRJY5ZR4UXBSZG/24.png Selected Work “The World Through A Poet’s Eyes: An Interview with Dani Putney” Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621255333673-804HMWZODO8I47TANGJY/21.png Selected Work “I Villanize Myself: An Interview with Shy Watson” Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1602177001471-9MVO2BHF5SE6T60FKMGP/7.png Selected Work “Exit Tangibility: An Interview with Jamie Marina Lau” Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1596205573684-B7PUBTWXME1L7T4ZX42G/HL_Interview.png Selected Work “Focusing On Anything But the World Unraveling: An Interview with Hilary Leichter” Published in Maudlin House, July, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1596205197931-W2U668H0X9ITENUFQG0I/DA_Interview.png Selected Work “Alignments to Guide the Reader: An Interview with Dima Alzayat” Published in Maudlin House, July, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1613753308825-NA95NOP5QNI1GDHDOIT9/Rachel+Genn.png Selected Work “Hell Is Other People’s Certainty: An Interview with Rachel Genn” Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621253705547-12V07NYUV5BLVGPHTCXP/Untitled+design.png Selected Work “Micro Podcast: Editor Edition” On Micro Podcast, January 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621255438412-MPVARBLQTWA0RHMSKXGX/23.png Selected Work - Make it stand out “A Shape-Shifting Flow Morphs Into Its Final Form: An Interview with Christine Shan Shan Hou” Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1596205832357-YVX37YIVY9759S20RF18/DOU_Interview.png Selected Work “More Radical Visions, More Radical Acts: An Interview with Deb Olin Unferth” Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958417374-OWSOD669J130VHBZZHKK/6.png Selected Work “Increasingly Intense and Claustraphobic: An Interview with Madeleine Watts” Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958248321-BIU73D3601B52L9JCAJA/4.png Selected Work “Our Mother Tongue Creates Displacement: An Interview with Jenny Hval” Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621254329749-ZHST3ZA9E6X9J692W17F/3.png Selected Work “Apparel for Authors: Interview with Gauraa Shekhar” In Apparel for Authors, April 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621253563143-4B2TLG12HWBER4U4KZSU/wri_hs_shekhar_gauraa.jpg Selected Work “Other Significant Others Nominated for the Pen/ Robert J. Dau Prize” In Columbia School of the Arts, December 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958181474-OLPC3U0W9F1R6SNGKAM0/3.png Selected Work “Lining Up Domino Pieces: An Interview With Charlotte Barslund” Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1602817196815-Y6QE1TJZQJVIHTR8Q00C/8.png Selected Work “A Kind of Kinship in Pain: An Interview with Brian Evenson” Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1598626841847-IFN556PZWI4G003GD4M9/4.png Selected Work “Chains of Causality Intersecting: An Interview with Nick Olson” Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1602817177452-7N6QVAZCV2EWEBBI2YWG/9.png Selected Work “The Places We Leave Aren’t Static: An Interview with Gwen Goodkin” Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1613753190528-XXPBRR6LVI0P909JK52Y/19.png Selected Work “The Process of Writing Is Necessarily Invasive: An Interview with Lucie Elven ” Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1611958536480-FVMLQLGUN1O54SHN8U11/8.png Selected Work “Cowboyism Is A School of Thought Begging to Be Broken Down: An Interview with Matt Mitchell” Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1605325338485-IWS0XJNUL4M23198EK2B/11.png Selected Work “No Voice Was Expendable: An Interview with Will Johnson” Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621255403547-FV8VL20CXC8EWAUV57U9/22.png Selected Work “Dim the Lights and Share a Viewing Experience: An Interview with Gina Nutt” Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1605325265750-5H2NB4JWWYJJWB2HE5TR/10.png Selected Work “Come Wait in Line and Buy Some Books: An Interview with Brett Bates” Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621255298482-D0EOBTH37W80KHUAA8DW/20.png Selected Work “A New Kind of Poets to Get Us Closer to Progess: An Interview with Michael Chang” Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1621253911681-RRS62IR6OM75506K9HGL/textual-healing-cover.jpg Selected Work “SAD FM: An Interview with Gauraa Shekhar” On Textual Healing Podcast, April 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1600449428066-GMN29IYW1JKJAFH2ET4T/Greeting+Photo+Birthday+Instagram+Post-2+copy.png Selected Work “Each Story Functions As A Specific Sound: An Interview with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips” Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592653850870-UERTCW9067GMR6IRPE95/NIJ Selected Work Francine Ringold Award for New Writers Fiction Finalist, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592653769360-EVC723YYXAKZ2J4FJY8Y/Untitled+design.png Selected Work Felipe De Alba Fellowship for Fiction Nominated, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1605325464288-NGQBSUV8UCC84HORNUF6/12.png Selected Work Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Nominated, 2020 (for “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” by Nimrod Journal). Read interview with Columbia University School of the Arts here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea03c9924070b085ede6d9c/1592576577192-VMG89BA7DTNWUPANN6SQ/Untitled+design+copy+2.png Selected Work Columbia University Writing Scholarship Recipient, 2019.