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

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

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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