2014 CBC Short Story Prize longlist announced
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: May 16, 2017 4:46 PM | Last Updated: May 16, 2017
The next winner of the CBC Short Story Prize will be found among the list of 36 writers below.
Some names are familiar to us, while others are new discoveries. Each one has an equal shot of winning the Grand Prize: $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine, and a two week writing residency at The Banff Centre.
- "Navigating Dead Ends" by Kristopher Bone (Toronto, ON)
- "The Conservatory" by Leslie Bousquet (Saskatoon, SK)
- "Coconut Dreams" by Trevor Corkum (Toronto, ON)
- "Shared" by Kayla Czaga (Vancouver, BC)
- "Nous and René Lévesque" by Rhonda Douglas (Ottawa, ON)
- "Reality Check on Aisle Five" by Betty Doyle (Drumheller, AB)
- "Breathe" by Kristina Fithern-Stiele (Victoria, BC)
- "Hank & Sally: A Triptych on Optimism, Longing and Home" by Marie Fontaine (Osnabrueck, Germany)
- "Lot Nine" by Cameron French (Toronto, ON)
- "Jihad" by Janet Gallin (Tiny, ON)
- "Uncle Bernie, Five Acts" by Jane Griffith (Sidney, BC)
- "A Kind of Prayer" by Carrie Guss (Toronto, ON)
- "Smiley" by Jane Eaton Hamilton (Vancouver, BC)
- "Jumbo" by Alix Hawley (Kelowna, BC)
- "Snap" by Chloe Hogan-Weihmann (Edmonton, AB)
- "Milk Glass" by Trilby Kent (Thornhill, ON)
- "The End" by Stephen Kernaghan (Winnipeg, MB)
- "Hyena" by Amanda Leduc (Hamilton, ON)
- "Tukisiviit?" by Laura Legge (Toronto, ON)
- "Saad Steps Out" by Trent Lewin (Waterloo, ON)
- "Scorpion Tattoo" by Ashley Little (Kelowna, BC)
- "Break and Enter" by Mark MacKichan (Vancouver, BC)
- "My Father" by Sara May (Orangeville, ON)
- "Raymond's Old Man" by Ted McInnis (St. Margarets Bay, NS)
- "Woof" by Lori McNulty (Vancouver, BC)
- "The Egg" by Pamela Nowina (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON)
- "Twillingate' by Samantha Oswald (Mississauga, ON)
- "The Rogues and Scoundrels Among Us" by Lana Pesch (Toronto, ON)
- "You and Me on a Boat and You're Smiling" by Nathan Pylypuk (Regina, SK)
- "Anya" by Aarti Rana (Toronto, ON)
- "Longshot" by Annie Reid (Vancouver, BC)
- "Good Friday at the Hotel Quinte" by Paddy Scott (Trenton, ON)
- "Frank" by Sam Shelstad (Victoria, BC)
- "Qom" by Brent van Staalduinen (Hamilton, ON)
- "We Know Me Better Than Anybody" by Ann Ward (Montreal, QC)
- "Lucy Alkema and the Nervous Breakdown" by Liz Windhorst Harmer (Hamilton, ON)
Congratulations to everyone who's made the longlist, and a big thank you to everyone who participated this year!
We'd also like to thank this year's readers: Shashi Bhat, Dennis E. Bolen, Amber Dawn, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Michael Hingston, Shari Lapena, Elise Moser, Chad Pelley, Rebecca Rosenblum, Richard Van Camp, Barry Webster and Thomas Wharton.