Kate Brooks has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Penny Loafer.

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.

Kate Brooks is a prose writer and visual artist currently based out of Halifax. She has a BA in creative writing from Concordia University. Her writing has appeared in WHOIS Journal and her novella, Dearer, is on the shortlist for the Metatron Prize for Emerging Writers. Her work explores themes of queerness, yearning, grief and home.

"The day moves on and"

"I wrote this story in the months after my parent was diagnosed with cancer and it has gone through many iterations since. It was a process of both existing outside the bounds of my own insular grief and of nurturing the new and often sweet intimacy that comes with sickness. Through this story I explored the now altered idea I had, both about the future with this particular family member and my attachment to mortality in general. It acted as a ritual of sorts for me, of recognizing the depth of what loss can be and how much the time before it means, however long it turns out to be."

He wakes at half past five and watches through his bedroom window as the sun rises over Toronto. In the winter, when morning comes later, he rises at seven or half past seven, but as it is now the height of summer, he is up at this time most mornings. Up for those first moments, up for the light growing over the lake, the strengthening fingers of pink or sometimes red or (on cloudless days such as this one) less of a concentrated thing and more of a general blushing.

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.