The results for the 1st The MAG short story contest have now been compiled and the following stories have been selected as the top twenty stories:
| Sr. No. | Name of Story | Author |
| 1. | Nude | Purnima Rao |
| 2. | A Song of Vengeance | Kalpana Abhijith |
| 3. | The Snapper | Jeena R Papaadi |
| 4. | The Perfect Girlfriend | Sidhartha Bharali |
| 5. | Of Dreams, and that thing called Fate | Himangshu Dutta |
| 6. | Forever Cinderella | Jeena R Papaadi |
| 7. | Epicentre | Jeena R Papaadi |
| 8. | Fracture | Anindita Deo |
| 9. | My Fault | Subhasis Ghosal |
| 10. | The Lost Earrings | Kalpana Abhijith |
| 11. | The Suicide Note | Vivek Singh |
| 12. | Karma Yogi | Neeshant Srivastava |
| 13. | The Back Pocket | Mrinal Saurav |
| 14. | Penance | Anubha Bhat |
| 15. | The Unfortunate Episode | Anubha Bhat |
| 16. | Smoking Kills | Manoj Madhvan |
| 17. | A Friend in Need | Sudhamshu Hebbar |
| 18. | The Travelling Suitcase | Manu Chaudhary |
| 19. | Hunger | Priscilla Jolly |
| 20. | Memories of a Dying Man | G S Vasu |
Congratulations to all the winners. We will also be contacting each author individually.
If any author has published the story anywhere else in the time it took to declare the results, that story will be removed from the list and will be replaced by another story.