Georgia Author of the Year Award
“Rahad Abir’s Bengal Hound: A Novel.” -March 26, 2024, NPR
The short story “Mr. Moti” is included in the secondary English textbook in Bangladesh.
Author Talk & Book Signing at the Reese Library, Augusta University- March 13, 2026
SALA- The South Asian Literature and Art Festival, San Francisco, Sept. 2025.
“Rahad Abir’s arduous journey towards publishing his debut novel.” -Interview with TBS
The most cherished reads of 2024, The News International
Literary Thursdays, Jan 2, 6:00pm – 7:00pm (Virtual), Queens Public Library, NY
Interview with Georgia Public Broadcasting
Interview with The Forge Literary Magazine
11 Books by Bangladeshi Voices Beyond Its Borders
Rahad Abir and Gemini Wahhaj in conversation with Aruni Kashyap at the Georgia Center for the Book
Fiction Writing workshop at the 2024 Highlands Writers Conference
Do Not Look at Girls appears in Hindi in Hans. Translated by Aftab Ahmad
Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh, 2021, edited by Sohana Manzoor
Second place winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction 2021
Finalist for the 2021 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships
Shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Hinterland Prize Creative Non-fiction Contest 2019