CBC Short Story Prize: 2015 longlist

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The next winner of the CBC Short Story Prize was chosen from this list of 26 writers below.
  • Alyson Grant for "Bargaining"
  • Andres Araujo for "Blind Date"
  • Donald Nikkel for "Butchering Day"
  • Jeremy Thomas Gilmer for "Congo River, County Antrim"
  • Joelle Barron for "Dawson City, YT"
  • Salina Brydson for "Downriver"
  • Kelly Watt for "Fall of the High Flyers"
  • M.V. Fierce for "Heat Wave"
  • Ken Dobell for "His Tourists"
  • Jennifer Amos for "Luna"
  • D.W. Wilson for "Mountain Under Sea"
  • Kirsten Madsen for "Mule Deer"
  • Katie Arthur for "Only Her"
  • Katherine Murray for "Rasputin's Song"
  • Moira Donovan for "Riptide"
  • Lauren Carter for "River's Edge"
  • Keith Urquhart for "Sandy Sampson"
  • Sheri Benning for "Skinned"
  • Erik Blachford for "The Castle"
  • Roberta Rees for "The Children"
  • Kelley Powell for "The Pool"
  • Jane Eaton Hamilton for "The River of Running Sand"
  • Iris Wilde for "The Undivided Heart of the Forty-Day Father"
  • Tom McMillan for "Uncle Ray's Tattoos"
  • Tajja Isen for "Vlog #43"
  • Chad Lucas for "Windmill Facial"
Each one had a shot of winning the 2015 Grand Prize: $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts(external link), publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine(external link) and a ten-day writing residency at The Banff Centre(external link). Four others were named runners-up and walked away with $1,000 each.
It's now up to the jury: two-time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner Caroline Adderson, 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels and 2014 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award winner Joan Thomas. The winner was announced on April 13th, 2015.
To find out who made the longlist for the Prix de la nouvelle Radio-Canada, click here(external link).