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!
Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were detained in China for more than 1,000 days, accused of espionage. They returned to Canada on Sept. 24, 2021
In this week’s New Classical Tracks, Turkish American composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol tells how he found jazz in his new recording with the chamber orchestra A Far Cry, ‘A Gentleman of Istanbul.’ Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of the album!
Early this spring, the Chinese character for “demolish” (“拆”) showed up in red spray paint on a strip of shops in Shenzhen’s Baishizhou neighborhood. Wang An, 41, has been selling women’s underwear from one of these shops for the last 10 years. “When they knock it down, I guess we’ll just go home to Hubei [province] and grow vegetables,” he joked in April. The spray paint
Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The winner will be announced on April 28, 2022.