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CBC
03-04-2025
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Westward by Josée Lafrenière
Social Sharing Josée Lafrenière has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Westward. The winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books. The four remaining finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on April 10 and the winner will be announced on April 17. If you're interested in other CBC Literary Prizes, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems from April 1-June 1. The 2026 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. About Josée Lafrenière Josée Lafrenière is a Franco-Ontarian who now lives in Montreal and writes in English. She works as a freelance editor, copywriter and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Headlight and the anthology Salut King Kong. Some pieces have also won the QWF-CBC Public's Choice Award and been shortlisted in the QWF-CBC contest and for the Prism International contest. Entry in five-ish words "Running away or toward?" The short story's source of inspiration "The main character here was a secondary character in an earlier story. I wondered what had happened to him. At the same time I was reading Denis Johnson's Train Dreams and I was also reflecting on how culture within a family line can disappear, based on my own family's history." First lines Smoke and dust refract the morning sun in the rail camp as Étienne Myre skulks out of the mess hall with cloth-wrapped sandwiches stowed in his pack. He stays behind the shanties and tents, skirting the walls, heading west. Sundays are the worst. Other days he works until night, under the stern eye of the rail boss, and then, in a belly-full stupor, drags himself to his cot to drop into sleep. But Sundays the Canadian Pacific gives them the day off for God and worship or drinking and whoring. He's tried them all. But as soon as his body stops moving, he's hounded by images: pennies on eyelids, crows cawing, a wailing infant. Check out the rest of the longlist The longlist was selected from more than 2,300 entries. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the list. The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers' longlisted selections. This year's jury is composed of Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie. The complete list is:
CBC
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Mount Zoo by Paul Warren
Social Sharing Paul Warren has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Mount Zoo. The winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books. The four remaining finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on April 10 and the winner will be announced on April 17. If you're interested in other CBC Literary Prizes, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems from April 1-June 1. The 2026 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. About Paul Warren Paul Warren is a writer who lives in Duncan on Vancouver Island. He was born in Manchester, U.K., studied at the London School of Economics and at the Universities of Essex and Warwick, and taught at the Universities of Manchester and Strathclyde. Since coming to Canada he has lived and worked in southern Ontario and on Vancouver Island. He is currently focused on writing short stories; his story Ink is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review. Entry in five-ish words "A woman navigates contested space." The short story's source of inspiration "In early 2023, I visited the home and studio of an artist friend who lives on an isolated road between the foot of a mountain and the shore of a tidal estuary. My sense of this place, wedged between stillness and flux, was different from anything I'd experienced before, and I wanted to write about it. "On subsequent visits I became more aware of the place's physical relation to current First Nations reserve land as well as to ancient Hul'q'umi'num territory. I knew that the story had to acknowledge this physical relation in some way and eventually — as I wrote and revised — it helped shape the narrative's central question." First lines She has lived in this cottage for a quarter of a century now, has owned it for more than a decade. Each morning she steps from its porch into a silence broken only by the crunch of gravel beneath her feet. When she reaches the end of the short path that leads past her studio to the narrow ribbon of road she turns left past her neighbours' properties — two tear downs and a still-new cuboid of cement and glass and steel and wood. As she passes the first tear down two huge dogs appear, padding noiselessly on the other side of the chain link fence, tracking her and her morsel of a Dachshund-Chihuahua mix. Check out the rest of the longlist The longlist was selected from more than 2,300 entries. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the list. The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers' longlisted selections. This year's jury is composed of Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie. The complete list is:
CBC
03-04-2025
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- CBC
Sudbury Saturday Night by Emily Groot
Social Sharing Emily Groot has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Sudbury Saturday Night. The winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books. The four remaining finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on April 10 and the winner will be announced on April 17. If you're interested in other CBC Literary Prizes, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems from April 1-June 1. The 2026 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. About Emily Groot Emily Groot is a public health physician, born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on the territory of Garden River and Batchewana First Nations. She now lives with her family in Sudbury, Ont. Her short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Off Topic Publishing, CMAJ Encounters, Intima and Pulp Literature. Entry in five-ish words "That was a hard fall, eh?" The short story's source of inspiration "I wanted to honour people who use drugs in Northern Ontario, and recognize the systemic forces that harm our communities." First lines There's a taste to the air before a storm, heavy and thick. Dark clouds hug the horizon. But I ignore the coming snow, ignore the signs telling me to find shelter: there's a point in my pocket and my nose is dripping and my arms are gooseflesh. If I can only use this one last time, if I can just sit for a moment, me and the fetty — my head will clear and my guts will settle. I need to get out of the cold, need to warm up my veins, need to hang up my coat, need to roll up my sleeves. I stand up straight, stare straight ahead, and walk straight into the old arena. Like I belong here, like maybe I'm picking up my kid from hockey practice. I used to belong here, used to pick up my kid from hockey practice. Check out the rest of the longlist The longlist was selected from more than 2,300 entries. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the list. The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers' longlisted selections. This year's jury is composed of Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie. The complete list is:
CBC
03-04-2025
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- CBC
Gold by Julia Williams
Julia Williams has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Gold. The winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books. The four remaining finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on April 10, and the winner will be announced on April 17. If you're interested in other writing competitions, check out the CBC Literary Prizes. The 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. The 2026 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. About Julia Williams Julia Williams is a Calgary writer whose work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Capilano Review and The Literary Review of Canada. Her first book of poetry, The Sink House, was published by Coach House Books a long time ago. You may also have seen her work on billboards, websites and annoying pop-ups and YouTube ads (she's a copywriter). She lives in Calgary with people she loves. Entry in five-ish words "Wedding, goldfish, multi-cell thunderstorm." The short story's source of inspiration "There was a storm just like this at my brother's southern Ontario wedding (all similarities end there). I've tried a few times to write about a wedding and a storm, but nothing worked until the fish showed up. They made it darker and funnier. I think it's very human to romanticize and aestheticize nature, and then be reminded that nature doesn't care about us at all." First lines By the time the bride's parents showed up with fish for the centerpieces, the sky was the colour of a bruise. The photographer said this was actually great. Every couple wants sun, but sun causes squinting and nose shadows. Anyway, rain was romantic. This reassured the bride, who was a lot more worried than the groom. She hadn't even got her gown on and it was almost two o'clock. The groom said all he wanted to do that day was get married and the details of it didn't bother him. He'd been saying that for months, to everyone they knew, and people thought it was romantic. Check out the rest of the longlist The longlist was selected from more than 2,300 entries. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the list. The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers' longlisted selections. This year's jury is composed of Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie. The complete list is:
