Award-Winning Books, Poems, & Writing Credential

It began with a poemGoddess of Song won The Enchanted Conversation Magazine’s poetry contest and was published in the February 2018 issue. 


And a short story:  'Into the Realms of a Summer's Dream,' won the short-story contest and was published in the August 2019 issue.


There was no looking back for Shobana thereafter:

Award-winning Books: Press the image to the Amazon Page.


 

First Novel Published

Shobana was awarded 'The top 10% among writers' badge' for this poetic drama in the Inkitt Grand Novel Contest.


Award-winning Books: (Press on the images for the link to Amazon)

TCK Reader's Choice Award

Firebird Book Award
Speak-Up Talk Radio 

 Amazon's Best-Seller Ranking Books




Writer's Credential

2025 The Feisty Licypriya Kangujam was published by Storyshares.org and shared in 50 states and distributed to 180 countries

Dec 2023 Children of War won the Welter@University of Baltimore Short Story Contest.
2024 Children of War won the Biopage Short Story Contest. 

The poem "A Pearl of Wisdom" was published in the March 2024 issue of the Rhyvers Beat, India magazine.

Into the Realms of a Summer's Dream won the short story contest and was published in the August 2019 issue of the Enchanted Conversation Magazine. 


The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation invited me to be a Volunteer Reviewer for the 2019 Young Authors for Tomorrow (11 years and under) competition.


The Raging, a Flash fiction piece, was published in ArtHut Magazine on the 24th of April 2019.


A Christmas Duet, my first fiction work, got me the Top 10% among the writers’ badge, in the Inkitt Novel Contest, which was featured in the April 2018 Newsletter of WinningWriters.com -One of the Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers.


Book Translation:


2019: Translated Jose Marti Perez's Golden fables and tales from English to Bahasa Malaysia for the Cuban Embassy in Malaysia.


In January 2019, I started a paid reviewing site https://reviewservicebyshobana.blogspot.com.

I have since reviewed books on fiction, non-fiction, and children’s stories.


2020: The Fire of Independence Burns Steadfast, a 500-word article was published in Subtledge-Indus, India, commemorating India’s 73rd Independence Day, on 3/08/2020. https://lnkd.in/gSvASUi


2020: The Healing Riverbeds’ review published on NewPages Blog.com.  Here’s the link: https://newpagesblog.com/2020/06/07/recommended-meditative-read



2021: Go Back to the Basics, an essay in conjunction with the Asian Heritage Month, USA, was published by Top Edit, Winning Writers, and Free Xpresion in line with the #StopAsianHate tagline.


2021: A Place to Dream (poem) was published in The Winning Writers newsletter.


2021: I started my online EBook Store, showcasing work that I had written over the years to cater to readers of all ages and for a nominal price to make it affordable to everyone. Here’s the link to Shobana’s Book Station, https://shobanabookstation.blogspot.com / https://payhip.com/ShobanaBookStation.


My books were listed on the new Estory App Store, a contract between Shandong Huayang Culture Development Co., Ltd., and Shobana Gomes. You can downloadapp app. to read them here. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/estory/id1555615400 (IOS edition).


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