Lauren Hawkeye has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Loose Teeth.

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.

Lauren Hawkeye published her first story in 2007 and has worked with various apps and publishers ever since. Born in Edmonton, she attended the University of Alberta and now resides in Canmore, Alta. Her work has been mentioned in Time magazine.

"rage, longing, transition, perversion, metamorphosis"

"I've always ground and clenched my teeth when stressed. A few months ago, I woke up one morning after clenching so hard that a tooth actually felt a bit loose and from that, I found a bit of a plot thread to tug on. This story came very quickly; it was plotted and written within two days."

The day of the fall equinox, that seasonal harbinger of change, Lo loses her first tooth.

It isn't her first first tooth, of course. Her first second lower bicuspid on the right-hand side disappeared when she was 12. The adult incarnation, used to pulverize the dry chicken her husband cooks on the grill, was expected to hang around for another 40 or so years, so the loss is rather more alarming this time around.

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.