A.W. Hopkins has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for No One Dies In Broke Hat Creek.

The winner of the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four 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 21 and the winner will be announced on April 28.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions until May 31.

A.W. Hopkins writes fiction, screenplays and is a film director. He has an MFA from the University of British Columbia School of Creative Writing. Most of his work examines, celebrates or investigates Indigenous lives, experience and identity. He is working on a collection of short stories. Hopkins lives in Vancouver and is a member of the Interior Salish, N'Quatqua First Nation.

"Boy, Rez-dog, seek killers"

"There were numerous inspirations behind the story. I had a reservoir of images, ideas and situations from my childhood and young adulthood, but I had no way to tie them all together until the idea of a lonely boy and his best friend, a talking rez dog, bubbled to the surface. Then I just had to find something for them to do."

Hashish and I were sitting on Broke Hat Creek Bridge and looking at the six man-size boulders jutting out of the heaving surface, each in its own angry squabble with the glacier fed water that runs clear and syrupy and smells like cedar, and for reasons all its own, is in a great hurry to get someplace else. They always seemed to me like a squad of assassins approaching from downstream in a predawn attack on a sleeping village.

The winner of the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The 2022 CBC Poetry Prize is currently open for submissions until May 31, 2022. The 2023 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January 2023.