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CBC
03-04-2025
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Personnel Unknown by John Sudlow
Social Sharing John Sudlow has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Personnel Unknown. 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 You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems from April 1-June 1.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 John Sudlow Born and raised in Toronto, John Sudlow has an Anglo-Irish background. A father of two adult children, he and his wife live in Oakville, Ont. He studied literature at York University (MA). He taught English and the history of rock and roll for several years. He loves literature, baseball and rock and roll. He has participated in several writing workshops and has written an unpublished collection of short stories set in east end Toronto. Entry in five-ish words "Found song parallels man's life." The short story's source of inspiration "A trip to Île d'Orléans and the magic found there." First lines Today, in an old suitcase I had been lugging around for years, like unexploded ordnance, I found Viktor's T-shirt. I had the same address for twelve years. In the last 10, eight. Just spaces. But Viktor's T-shirt is a record, the objective truth about who, where and when, but silent about what and why. It's the size of a large handkerchief, red cotton, made thin by repeated laundering. The image of the chieftain's head and script, once crisp and white, are faded and worn, like what happens to coins, letters, and headstones. But I know what was written there, "Le Domaine des Sorciers" and "St. Jean." 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
How To Watch Your Daughter Die by Jessica Wegmann-Sanchez
Social Sharing Jessica Wegmann-Sanchez has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for How To Watch Your Daughter Die. 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 Jessica Wegmann-Sanchez Jessica Wegmann-Sanchez grew up in Edmonton, traditional territory of the Cree, Anishinaabe, Blackfoot, Métis, Dene and Nakota Sioux. She has a PhD in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has published academic articles in critical race theory and medieval studies. Recently, she's transitioned to studying creative writing. She considers magical realism an analgesic to life's more harsh and brutal moments and is having fun writing a novel with her husband about a Mexican migrant and his daughter who are haunted by a troublesome psychic inheritance. Wegmann-Sanchez's story Eyeball Tacos was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Entry in five-ish words "One illness shatters many lives." The short story's source of inspiration "Through years of caring for a critically ill loved one, I attended support groups and heard the stories of many family caregivers. There is a crippling helplessness in watching a mental health or substance abuse disorder — or even a physical disease like dementia or cancer — come close to killing someone you love again and again. This is the first time I've ever written a story with a second-person narrator, but it seemed especially on point here to show that this nightmare experience represents not that of one fictional narrator with a child who is ill, but rather an ordeal that anyone could have to face." First lines Tell her to stop eating gluten. Tell her to hold an ice cube in each hand to learn distress tolerance. It's because you are too lenient. It's because you are too strict. It's because your husband is too emotionally absent. It's because you are too emotionally enmeshed. It's because of that time you responded impatiently to her at eight fifteen on a Thursday night seven years ago. The orderly leads you through the locked psych ward to the second secured portal. It looks like an airlock in a Hollywood movie spaceship. Your gaze drops as though the real solution and reason for your daughter's metamorphosis might be deciphered in the freckles bespeckling your folded hands. 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
Dirty Gert by Pamela van der Woude
Pamela van der Woude has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Dirty Gert. 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 Pamela van der Woude Pamela van der Woude writes fiction in Prince Edward County, Ont. She was the winner of the 2015 Writers' Union of Canada short story contest, shortlisted for the 2018 Room Magazine short story contest. Her most recent publication can be found in the 2024 inaugural edition of Common Measure. She has honed her writing craft for the last two decades and is currently revising her second novel that takes place in Prince Edward Island. Entry in five-ish words "A memory shaped by two." The short story's source of inspiration "Re-reading Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories on the beach last summer and being struck anew by the raw and exquisite nature of her writing about love and loneliness in settings that read like characters." First lines The two farms in Prince Edward Island, on Park Corners Lane, faced each other like opposing sisters, one rich, one poor. The poorer farm kept its curtains closed, its dogs tied up, its bushes untrimmed. The Wagner family came and went from here, necks bent, chins tucked, always looking down. This peculiar way of walking betrayed their identity. You could tell it was a Wagner just by looking at them with those heads positioned like tired turtles. On an early fall day, the Wagner mother called out to our mom. My mom ran over, nodded, rushed inside our house, ran to the Wagner's. My sisters and I watched, waited. Clumped together, like we did when we were curious, uncertain or maybe scared. Mom finally walked down the uneven steps of their side porch, head bowed like a Wagner. 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
Driving in a Snowstorm by Izza Farhan
Social Sharing Izza Farhan has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Driving in a Snowstorm. 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 Izza Farhan Izza Farhan lives in Toronto and is a soon-to-be civil engineering graduate from the University of Toronto. With a long love for reading and storytelling, she started her writing journey after taking a creative writing course in the summer of her final year. This is her first literary milestone. She has many more stories she wants to tell and is currently working on outlining her first two novels. In her free time, when she's not writing, she loves to take pictures with her film camera. Entry in five-ish words "The snow will eventually melt." The short story's source of inspiration "I wanted to capture the struggling relationship between generations in an immigrant family, specifically through the lens of grief. As a daughter of immigrant parents, I think sometimes we fail to empathize with our parents and understand the loneliness they suffer adjusting to a new country, one that doesn't always welcome them with open arms." First lines Heartless child. Takes every opportunity to drive the car. But because it is his own father who needs a ride, and because he is so repulsed by his own flesh and blood, it takes him an hour to wear a sweatshirt and then another hour to use the bathroom. And by the time he is in the car, Atiq in the passenger seat, Hamza is on the phone talking to Darren or Derek or who knows what that boy's name is, maybe it is James, one of those old high school friends that, unlike him, went to university and had discipline. The way he exaggerates his vowels, his arrogant way of laughing, is screwing a hole into Atiq's mind. The key is in Hamza's hand, the car is getting cold, Atiq is shivering, and the key is still in Hamza's hand, and he isn't starting the car because he is talking to James? Darren? Derek? 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
Mothers Day, 2017 by Gráinne Downey
Social Sharing Gráinne Downey has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Mothers Day, 2017. 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 Gráinne Downey Gráinne Downey is a writer and visual artist living in Vancouver on the traditional, unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh people. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and was previously shortlisted for the 2024 Room Magazine Creative Non-Fiction contest. Entry in five-ish words " The ceiling won't stop leaking." The short story's source of inspiration "I spend a lot of time walking and running by the water, which means I see a lot of harbour seals. They're at once very normal, common animals and very magical ones. Selkie folklore felt like a natural outlet for a story about a woman's discomfort with her situation and her skin, so I chose to set the story in a more traditionally selkie-ish location, the north of Ireland." First lines Maureen empties the bucket once each morning and again in the evening before she goes to bed. The leak started two weeks ago, an issue with the pipes that her father began to explain before waving her away. "Don't worry yourself," he'd said, "I'll fix it." They laid a towel out and brought in a plastic bucket from the shed to catch the water that has since dripped ceaselessly day and night. It annoyed Maureen for a few days, but now the dripping feels as much a part of the house as the faulty screen door and the wobbling kitchen stool and her own dismal body. Last night as she washed up, the dripping created an ugly rhythm with the smoke detector beeping for a new battery and she found herself scrubbing in time. 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:
