Donald Johnson has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Don't Go Anywhere: A Staycation Travelogue.

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.

Donald Johnson is a retired community college English teacher. Since his retirement in 2014, he has returned to writing fiction — if not full-time — every day. His short stories have been published in a few Canadian literary journals, such as Quarry, Matrix and the Wascana Review. He's currently writing a novel about talk radio, guns and lost children.

"The world is severely troubled."

"I was inspired by a nature documentary about Antarctica. Because I couldn't fit the first few pages into my novel, I set them aside and let them grow into the story I've submitted."

Antarctica: It has about 90 per cent of Earth's ice! It also contains the world's largest desert! (Turns out you don't need heat or sand to make one. Who knew?) It even has insects — just one species, but still! That's one impressive continent. All the birds and mammals are impressive, too. The whales are the biggest and the smartest, of course, but the albatrosses are the prettiest. Some of that I learned a long time ago from one of David's school projects, and some of it from the highly defined photography and videography that make it on to my television set these days.

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.