After the heart breaking news of Zainab's demise, Daastan decided to launch it's fourth season of The Stories Untold competition in her honor. The entries of I Am Zainab aim to eradicate the stigma attached with the topic of child abuse, along with providing real life advice on how to prevent them from happening.
Daastan collaborates with White Falcon Publishing and Outcast Magazine, to bring Literati South Asian Award for Micro Fiction competition to their community. The top stories will see their work published and brought to print with Daastan.
A delegation consisting of Mr. Syed Ommer Amer, and Mr. Nauman Shahid from Daastan won a grant of 2500 USD to conduct the second season of The Stories Untold. The competition would encourage writers to bring their own experiences forward as lessons.
A short story competition was conducted by Daastan in collaboration with White Falcon Publishing and Outcast Magazine. It received a large number of submissions and top 20 finalists were selected from more than 100 submissions.