Lewis DeSoto has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Savages.

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.

Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada as a teenager. He is the author of the novels A Blade of Grass and The Restoration Artist, as well as a short biography of the Canadian painter Emily Carr. A Blade of Grass was longlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. The novel was also a finalist for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

"Paradise, lost."

"I spent part of my childhood in a home for boys in South Africa. Perhaps the seed for the story was planted then and only bloomed now."

"Where are you guys going?

Nobody really likes Obert. He doesn't have any friends. He pees his sleeping bag. He's a runt.

"Come on, Neto, let me come with you guys."

Just because I stopped somebody stealing Obert's shoes, now Obert thinks we are friends.

We leave him and head away from the hole in the wire fence that encloses the collection of tents and buildings that make up the Umtentwini Relocation Camp and continue into the bush, along the path that Luckson says leads to the Lumela river. Maybe we can get home from there.

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.