Trisha Gregorio has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Rest Day.

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.

Trisha Gregorio is a writer, editor and audio producer based in Hamilton, Ont. Having worked with a variety of formats since her first year of university, ranging from fiction to personal essays to theatre, she currently produces and co-hosts the Living Hyphen podcast.

"The immigrant eldest daughter experience."

"The premise in itself is based on my own experience being admitted to the hospital in August 2021 after calling a mental health hotline. What began as a personal search for release during my stay ended up being a short story of its own. Ultimately, Rest Day diverges from my own life, but a lot of the emotions that inspired it and fuel it are, I think, both personal to me and universal to many other eldest daughters who have had to do the bulk of keeping their households together and running, particularly in immigrant families."

I stare at it because if I don't, I will glance down at my phone, which they let me keep beyond the metal detector while the nurse stuffed the rest of my belongings into a locker, or I will turn to squint at the small, shiny slope of the dome behind me in hopes of spotting the camera it's hiding. Both pieces of technology remind me I am real, that I am someone who can be reached through this phone and someone who can be watched through that camera and this reminder makes me feel silly, because I realise that nothing has come out of this night at all except 14 messages from my mother and the addition of one more person that the nurses have to look after in a 12-hour overnight shift.

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.