An awarded artist, Sultana Raza received the Leonardo Award at the Cianciano Biennale (2013), and Category Winner (Collage) in the 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards in 2025. Honorbale Mentions in the 22nd 23rd, 24th 25th and 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, and in the 21st Pollux Awards (May 2024). Individual exhibition at (European Court of Auditors in) Luxembourg in 2014. Group exhibitions: She participated in an intl. exhibition at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in South Korea in Nov. 2024. She has been invited to exhibit again in 2026 at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in S. Korea. Competition Finalist: Group exhibition in Tokyo in Oct. 2026 organized by Holy Art Gallery. Finalist in the following recent online competitions: -Lumen Art Gallery: Secret Gardens May 2026 -Lumen Art Gallery: Sacred Geometry April 2026 -Golden Duck Gallery: Inspired by Classics theme in Budapest May 2026 (3 artworks chosen from online competition). -For example, in the Fusion Arts online Gallery as Exhibition Finalist in Artist’s Choice in March 2026. -For example, in the Time Light Space online Gallery as Exhibition Finalist in Figurative in March 2026, and Colors in April 2026. -Participation in an exhibition at the World Con in Glasgow 2024 (where she was a speaker in 5 Panels). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RvsrCEdfI Group exhibitions in the past: Also, Honorable Mentions for many online competitions including in the A. Smith Gallery, Black Box Gallery, and Light Space Time online Gallery, based in the USA for many online exhibitions. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in Europe: Italy, Art Monaco (2014), and Finland. In the USA she participated in Art Expo in New York in 2014. Her artworks were published in various art publications, including New Collector’s Book in 2013, Contemporary Masters (2014), Royal Monaco (2014). Literary Journals Cover Art in the following literary journals: -3Elements Review (Aug. 2023 & Feb.2024); (they have a very low acceptance rate of 14%). -Focus (British Science Fiction Association): in 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 and in June 2026), -Literary Heist (March 2026) -Rigorous (July 2023 & Jan 2024), and -Alchemy Spoon (Jan 2025). Interior Art in: -3Elements Review (2016, 2022, 2023, 2024 and in 2026), =Khaotic Good (March 2026) -Four Feathers Press (March and April 2026) -Candyman’s Trumpet (May 2026) -Like a Blot from the Blue (2025 & 2025) -Seine Und Werden (2025), -Alchemy Spoon (Dec.2023 & Jan 2025). -Blaze Vox, -Bewildering Stories (Issues 954 & 1022), -Utopia Science Fiction (in Dec. ’23), -Amon Hen (Feb 2022, Tolkien Society), -Vingilot (Winter 2023, Tolkien Society), and -Rigorous in July ’23 & Nov. ’24). https://www.facebook.com/sultana.raza.7 Press Article: https://lightspacetime.art/tag/sultana-raza/ Note: There were other press articles, but they are not available on the Internet any longer. Note: between 2014, and 2024 I had to take a break from producing artworks, as I was more focused on my writing projects. And I was also working as a free-lance English trainer for adults and looking after my mother who was unwell. Writer’s Bio Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza’s poems have appeared in 200+ journals/anthologies, including Columbia Journal, The New Verse News, Star*line, Vita Brevis, Moonstone Arts Centre Anthologies (PA, USA), London Grip, Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, Blaze Vox, and Four Feathers Press. Her fiction received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review. Also published in the Galaxy Series (Clarendon House), Coldnoon Journal, Knot Literature, and Setu. Her stories have been published in many anthologies including the Achilles Anthology (Flame Tree Press). She’s read her fiction/poems in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, England, Ireland, the USA, WorldCon 2018, CoNZealand 2019, at Chicon8, and at World Con Glasgow 2024, and at the British Fantasy Society 2024. Her creative non-fiction will/has appeared in Literary Ladies Guide, Literary Yard, Litro, Focus & Vector (BSFA), Dream Pop Journal (in 2023) etc. An independent scholar, Sultana Raza’s presented papers on Romanticism (Keats) and Fantasy (Tolkien) in international conferences. https://www.facebook.com/sultana.raza.7
