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
Darran Anderson was on his way to work at a London department store when he got an email out of the blue. “I thought it was a scam and initially paid no heed, but there was something about the Yale email address that made me wonder,” he says.