The Lahore School Society of Literature organized its First Inter-Institution Short Story Writing Competition 2011 which was divided in two sessions: the first session, the competition itself, took place on Nov 16, 2011 at the SBS library. Twenty-one participants from eight different institutions from Lahore took part in the competition. The participants were shown a set of three issues (Labor, Patriotism, women) based photographs. Each student could choose any one of the photos to draw inspiration from and write a short story of 1000-1200 words. The entries have been sent to a panel of external judges for deliberation [Ali Rizvi (Pakistan Today), Bilal Tanveer (LUMS) and Miranda Hussain (Newsweek)].