Writers Jen Sookfong Lee, Shyam Selvadurai and Marina Endicott comprise the jury for the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize.
Jen Sookfong Lee's books include The Conjoined and The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. She also appears regularly as a contributor on The Next Chapter on CBC Radio One. Lee was born and raised in Vancouver's East Side and now teaches writing at The Writers' Studio Online at Simon Fraser University.

Shyam Selvadurai's novel The Hungry Ghosts was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. His first novel, Funny Boy, won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award in the U.S. He is working on a comprehensive anthology of Sri Lankan literature, Many Roads Through Paradise. He lives in Toronto

Marina Endicott's second book, Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a contender on Canada Reads in 2010. Close to Hugh is her most recent novel. She lives in Edmonton and is at work on a new book, The Difference, about a Canadian woman who buys a little boy for four pounds of tobacco.

The winner of the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their story published in Air Canada enRoute magazine and will have the opportunity to attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their stories published on CBC Books.

Past CBC Short Story Prize winners include Michael Winter, Camilla Gibb, David Bergen and Shauna Singh Baldwin.

Last year's winner was David Huebert. You can read his winning story, "Enigma," here.