A total of 30 writers from various regions in Canada have been selected for the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize longlist out of nearly 3,000 entries.
Among the longlisted writers are:
- 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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