May is short story month! Celebrate by reading a great Canadian short story. This list was originally curated by writer Kevin Hardcastle in 2020, and has been updated for 2024!
The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers and editors across Canada. Meet the 12 who will be working on the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize, which is open for submissions until Nov. 1.
Meet 14 Canadian writers who won Canada's biggest literary awards this year cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On May 4, the inaugural Carol Shields Prize, the largest literary prize in the world for American and Canadian women and non-binary fiction writers, will be awarded. Susan Swan, co-founder of the prize, on the pushback it has encountered, and why it’s needed