Thirty writers from various regions of Canada have been selected for the longlist of the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize out of nearly 3,000 entries.
Some of the writers on the longlist include:
- YSL Classes by Oluwatoke Adejoye (Burnaby, B.C.)
- Things I Know for Sure by Katrina Agbayani (Toronto)
- Pattern Recognition by Amber Allen (Guelph, Ont.)
- Big Plane, Small Plane by Jeremy Audet (Montreal)
- Not Too Hard, Not Too Easy by Anne Baldo (Windsor, Ont.)
- Dog Song by Elizabeth Ball (Montreal)
- Anniversary by Kate Cayley (Toronto)
- My Mother, Margaret, and the Man Who Irons His Jeans by Lorna Crozier (North Saanich, B.C.)
- Hard Neck by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove (Vancouver)
- nindikwewimin: we are women by Dawnis Kennedy (Winnipeg)
- The Dermis by Robin Koczerginski (Toronto)
- A Season of Crows by Larah Luna (Vancouver)
- How to Break Up with a Monster by Carrie Mac (Vancouver)
- The Ball Game by Adam McPhee (Fort McMurray, Alta.)
- Tamago by Lindsay Naito (North Vancouver, B.C.)
- Red House by Nolan Natasha (Halifax)
- Graveyard Shift by Brett Nelson (Vancouver)
- Minuet or Maqsum by Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (Montreal)
- A Second Storey by Barbara Parkin (Vancouver)
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