kailash srinivasan

Born and raised in India and now living in Vancouver, Canada, Kailash Srinivasan’s narratives often highlight fractures of different kinds: personal, societal, economic, religious, and political. He also writes about injustice and inequality. His prose and poetry have appeared or scheduled to appear in several Canadian and international literary journals, including Pulp Literature, Ex-Puritan, CBC Books, Identity Theory, Handwritten & Co., Midway Journal, Snarl, Hunger, XRAY, Coachella Review, Selkie, Antilang, Oyster River Pages, Sidereal, Queen Mob’s Tea House, and Lunch Ticket. He won the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Annual Short Prose Competition 2024 and, in the same year, was featured in CBC Books’ “Writers to Watch.” His work has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season Awards Fiction 2024, the CBC Short Story Prize 2024, the Bridport Prize for Fiction 2023, the Bristol Short Story Prize 2022, Into the Void Fiction Prize 2019, and longlisted for the Federation of BC Writers Fiction Prize 2025, Disquiet International Fiction Prize 2025, CBC Short Story Prize 2023 and the Bath Short Story Award. He received an honourable mention in the Craft First Chapters Contest 2023 and was a runner-up in the 2022 Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry & Short Fiction. Currently, he’s working on his first novel and a short story collection.