Peter Stevens has made the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for The Passport.

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.

Peter Stevens is a writer, director and improvisor in Toronto. He has won awards writing comedy for The Irrelevant Show, The Adventures of Tom Shadow musical and Elephant Empire. He was a tree planter, a student of history and politics and a travel abroad teacher.

"Migrant worker asks to go home."

"In 2022, I was in Sydney and I bonded with the front desk staff over a bizarre trend of young Australians trashing hotel rooms. At the time, I was teaching a high school unit on migrant labour and felt in a good place to listen.

"Over a week, the two women told me about their lives, one from Malaysia the other from Vietnam, about family near and far, their goals, struggles, work visas during the pandemic and more. When I returned to Toronto, I couldn't help but see my city in a new way.

"I'm realizing these themes have resonated with me as far back as seeing Lixin Fan's Last Train Home and a video on The Economist about China called The Largest Migration in History."

Diwa pushed the stroller to the park. She found the other nannies in the usual spot, near the children's playground. She could hear them chatting in Tagalog as she approached. It was the first chilly day of fall.

One of the newer nannies wore a toque for the first time. She was bundled up more than the babies. Oh, it gets much colder than this, the more experienced nannies laughed. Much colder.

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.