"Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall" was published on the Daily Science Fiction site in June 2013.
[3][4] In conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge, he led Pakistan's first speculative fiction writing workshop in Lahore in 2014, which featured Musharraf Ali Farooqi as a guest speaker.
[5] His story, "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn", won the British Fantasy Award for best novella in 2016.
[10] "The Fortune of Sparrows", published in February 2017 in Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales edited by Ellen Datlow, was nominated for a Locus Award.
[11] Malik was nominated for a Stoker Award for "Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung", published in Nightmare Magazine in 2018.