• He is the author of three short-story collections. Adam received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Rasavidyayude Charithram won him the Geetha Hiranyan Endowment Award of Kerala Sahithya Akademi and Appan is a collection of six stories.
  • Hareesh has written two screenplays, Aedan and Jallikattu.Aedan , based on three stories in Adam and directed by Sanju Surendran, received the Kerala State Award for best screenplay in 2017. Jallikattu , based on his short story ‘Maoist’, premièred at the Toronto Film Festival and won a silver peacock at the International Film Festival of India.