CBC Short Story Prize: 2015 longlist
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: May 17, 2017 1:33 PM | Last Updated: May 17, 2017
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, publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine and a ten-day writing residency at The Banff Centre. 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.