Karl Meade has made the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for Just Beautiful.

The winner of the 2022 CBC Nonfiction 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 Sept. 15 and the winner will be announced on Sept. 22.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize is currently open for submissions until Oct. 31, 2022.

Karl Meade is a poet, essayist and novelist living on Salt Spring Island, B.C. He has been longlisted three times for the CBC Nonfiction Prize, and once each for the CBC Short Story Prize and CBC Poetry Prize. He was shortlisted for Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year and shortlisted for the Malahat Review's Open Season Creative Nonfiction Award. Meade's work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, such as the Literary Review of Canada, Contemporary Verse 2, the Fiddlehead, Event and Grain. His novel, Odd Jobs, was a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year finalist for Humour and an iTunes Top 20 Arts and Literature Podcast.

"My Father's life in 12 parts."

"My father died in February of 2022, after a long struggle with vascular dementia. Two years earlier, at the start of COVID, he caught a non-COVID flu, was drugged and isolated, then never walked or talked again. I wanted to convey — and I guess in some ways recapture — what a fun-loving, riotous and multi-faceted person he was through his long and storied life."

One: Like the earth, he wore his scars for all to see. He led with his nose — his Everest — broken, twisted, blown 10 times a day like God's trumpet from the stratosphere. I remember cringing as he folded his white hanky into his pocket and cleared his throat; we'd all brace ourselves for what might come out of his mouth next.

"Oh, my little baby," he'd say, arms spread, trying to embarrass me in front of my teenage friends. 'How about a hug for your dear old Dad?'

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