Hollie Adams has made the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for The Sessional Year.

The winner of the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and win a two-week writing residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. 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 12 and the winner will be announced on April 18.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions until May 31.

Hollie Adams is originally from Windsor, Ont., and now lives in Bangor, Maine. She is the author of the novel Things You've Inherited from Your Mother. She is the fiction editor of the Windsor Review and is a current resident artist at Acadia National Park. Her writing has been published in various Canadian literary magazines including Room, CV2, The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Carousel, Grain and Prairie Fire. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary and is an assistant professor at the University of Maine, where she teaches creative writing and Canadian literature. She previously made the 2020 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Liking It.

"College instructor stalked by student."

"I started teaching at a college as a sessional instructor when I was fairly young (27) and some students had a hard time with the student/professor boundary. While most of the students were very respectful, I did get asked out on dates and invited to parties, and students often commented on my outfits and appearance in my teaching evaluations. While this is a fictional story, there is a shard of truth in here."

Two days before my flight home to visit my parents for Christmas, the head of college security calls me on my cell. They need to speak with me right away, he says. This isn't something we can discuss on the phone, he says. When can I come in?

I am in trouble, I think. I imagine what I may have done. Left my office unlocked, someone stole my work computer, and now I'm on the hook for thousands to replace it. Or I've left a window open overnight and the pipes have frozen, burst, flooded the entire floor. I wonder if I'm being fired. I wonder if I care.

The winner of the 2023 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 Artscape Gibraltar Point. 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 Poetry Prize is currently open until May 31, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The 2024 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January 2024.