May is short story month! Celebrate by reading a great Canadian short story. This list was originally curated by writer Kevin Hardcastle in 2020, and has been updated for 2024!
Corinna Chong will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre. Read her winning story, Kids in Kindergaretn, now.
5 writers make the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist
Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The winner will be announced on April 29, 2021.
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Posted: Apr 21, 2021 12:51 PM ET | Last Updated: April 22
From left: Corinna Chong, Brooks McMullin, Miranda Morris, Ben Pitfield and Saeed Teebi. The five writers are shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.(See individual photos below for credit)
Prince Albert Daily Herald
Prince Albert author Brooks McMullin has been shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize for his short story Deville at Home. /Submitted
Prince Albert author Brooks McMullin has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize as announced Thursday. McMullin was nominated for his short story
Deville at Home.
, the longlist was selected from almost 3,000 English-language submissions.
McMullin was honoured to be selected for the longlist.
“It’s an affirmation that you have a hunch about your writing and you don’t know if it’s good, it must be good in some way if it can reach this …stage,” McMullin told the Herald at the time.