Jack Emberly has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Goodbye, Chums.

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.

Jack Emberly is a retired elementary school and special education teacher, columnist for Maple Ridge News, podcaster, video producer and member of the Coquitlam B.C. Writers Group. His human interest and entertainment articles appeared in several B.C.-based magazines in the 1980s and 90s. Emberly's largely autobiographical book, The King of Anger Mountain, about a Grade 7 bully, was later revised as a stage play.

"Empathy is innate in children."

"Watching children protect and tend to the needs of the baby salmon they were raising in aquariums (Salmon Enhancement Projects) and hover like brooding hens over new kids from war-torn countries like Afghanistan. Terrorist bombings of trains suggested a main character for a story."

Mrs. White worried about her parent teacher conference at 8 p.m. It would be her first with Dr. Khan since the student assessment committee placed Mohammed in her Grade 3 class. In three months the boy hadn't spoken a word to his teacher or to Mrs. Adelman, the teaching assistant. But, that was expected. Mohammed hadn't spoken to anyone, even his father, in two years.

Dr. Khan wanted to tell Mohammed's teacher something about that. "I believe, it is of vital importance," he said on the phone.

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.