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The 2022 CBC Short Story Prize is now open!
You can submit your original, unpublished fiction for a chance to win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have their story published on CBC Books.
Four finalists will win $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their story published on CBC Books.
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The Prize is open until Oct. 31, 2021.
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B.C. writer and professor Corinna Chong won the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize for her story Kids in Kindergarten.
The CBC Literary Prizes have been supporting and celebrating Canadian writers since 1979. Other past winners include Michael Ondaatje, Michael Winter and Frances Itani.
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