Rachel Lachmansingh has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for The Window of a Stranger's House.

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.

Rachel Lachmansingh is a Guyanese-Canadian writer from Toronto. Her writing has been considered for various awards, including the Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction for which she was shortlisted, the National Magazine Awards, the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Awards and the Rhysling Awards. She has work published or forthcoming in Minola Review, Grain Magazine, the Malahat Review, the Fiddlehead, the New Quarterly, CV2, Augur Magazine and filling Station. She reads for several literary magazines and is pursuing her BA in writing at the University of Victoria.

"A woman chases buried desire."

"The Window of a Stranger's House was the very first short story idea and title I brainstormed, but I was much too young to understand how to write it. Like most of my short fiction ideas, it appeared seemingly out of nowhere, just a small strand of voice to hold onto. Fiction is so much like unraveling a ball of yarn for me — I learn everything about a story as I write until I get to the end. The story didn't materialize until a few months ago when I needed to meet my monthly goal at the time of a short story a month and wanted to flesh out an old idea."

The couple who lives in the building across yours is about to break up. You haven't come to this conclusion lightly — you'd never say something so presumptuous if you didn't have proof.

These are the facts: he buys flowers every Tuesday, but they're never for her (always, he pulls the bouquet from a grocery bag, writes a message on the cellophane with a sharpie from his girlfriend's desk, then shoves it back into the bag). She comes home weekly with a new set of lacey lingerie that she never wears for him (you would know: your apartment's sliding door looks straight into their room).

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.