CBC Short Story Prize longlist and Canada Reads

Thursday, March 12th 2015 Stay Connected to Canada Writes   All caught up on your reading? Canada Reads takes place next week! LATEST NEWS AND INTERVIEWS 2015 LONGLIST ANNOUNCED Learn more about the 26 writers on the longlist for this year's CBC Short Story Prize. Each one has a shot at the Grand Prize: $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine and a writing residency at The Banff Centre. Read More CANADA READS STARTS MONDAY CBC's annual battle of the books takes place next week! Which of the five books is the one to break barriers? Find out all the different ways you can catch next week's live debates. Read More INTOLERABLE: A MEMOIR OF EXTREMES After returning from a trip to visit his family in Yemen, Kamal Al-Solaylee had a breakdown. He talks to us about how this powerful family saga—and unflinching portrait of today's Arab/Muslim world—came to be. Read More THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN It took Thomas King seven long years to complete The Inconvenient Indian—a book dedicated to the next generation. He shares with us how he wrote this authoritative account of North American Native history. Read More WHEN EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE THE MOVIES The death of Larry Fobes King, a young gay teen who was shot dead by his classmate, compelled Raziel Reid to write this young adult novel. He talks to us about the story behind this powerful and controversial story. Read More AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN Jocelyne Saucier based a character in her book on her 87-year-old aunt, a woman who lived most of her life in a psychiatric hospital. Find out more about Marie-Ange whose stolen life made its way into her book. Read More RU In 2007, Kim Thúy wasn't even a writer. She was a restaurant owner with a habit of falling asleep at red lights. Kim talks to us about how her vivid, painful and poetic debut novel came to be. Read More RECENT FEATURES 5 March releases we can't wait to read David Usher: 5 totally random facts 12 Canadian women writers you need to read Tomson Highway takes the Magic 8 questionnaire