The Wedding by Ira Mulasi
CBC Books | | Posted: April 14, 2021 1:30 PM | Last Updated: April 14, 2021
2021 CBC Short Story Prize longlist
Ira Mulasi has made the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for The Wedding.
The winner of the 2021 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 22 and the winner will be announced on April 29.
About Ira Mulasi
Ira Mulasi has a BA in English from the University of Calgary and attended Humber College's Workshop in Creative Writing. She has taken courses in playwriting and fiction writing. The Wedding is a chapter from her novel in progress. She lives in Calgary.
Entry in five-ish words
"Emotional chaos at a wedding."
The story's source of inspiration
"I was inspired by the feeling of intense discomfort that occurs when you're expected to conform and you just can't do it."
First lines
Weddings are not your thing, but here you are. It's really your sister and mother's big day. Rahul, future brother-in-law to be, is an afterthought. Your mother is bursting with so much pride that she might spontaneously combust. At least that would be interesting.
Your mother is bursting with so much pride that she might spontaneously combust. At least that would be interesting.
She's changed her sari three times already and the ceremony hasn't even started. There's the "arriving at the venue" sari (dark green), the "guests have arrived" sari (baby blue with beaded embroidery) and the "I'm so happy! Let the ceremonies begin!" sari (light purple with lots of embroidered designs and jewelled things that don't register on your consciousness). They're all fancy and expensive. That's all that you know.
About the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize
The winner of the 2021 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 the 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 2021 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions until May 31, 2021. The 2022 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January 2022.