Nina Dragicevic has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Youth.

The winner of the 2022 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 21 and the winner will be announced on April 28.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions until May 31.

Nina Dragicevic is a freelance journalist and fiction writer publishing under the name Nina Dunic. She won the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, placed third in the Humber Literary Review Emerging Writers Fiction Contest and was nominated for the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Born in Belgrade and brought to Toronto as an infant, Dragicevic grew up in Scarborough, Ont., and Pickering, Ont., currently living in Scarborough. This is her third time on the CBC Short Story Prize longlist. She has just finished her first novel.

"Two women, two generations apart."

"I was taking the GO Train and passed a small creek where teenagers were hanging out."

The path was new enough, young enough, that you had to walk with feet single file and pick your footfalls carefully between the tree roots and rocks rising out of the ground. Sometimes the branches overhead dipped low and you had to duck beneath them, sometimes the trees crowded close on either side. But the path wasn't long and soon you were at the creek, a small clearing near the water.

After first seeing it, she didn't actually go there for a couple of months, only looked down onto the creek from the fifth floor balcony where she sat drinking iced tea or lemon water throughout the day.

The winner of the 2022 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 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 2022 CBC Poetry Prize is currently open for submissions until May 31, 2022. The 2023 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January 2023.