Out of nearly 3,000 entries, a total of 30 writers from various parts of Canada have been included in the longlist for the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize.
Here is the complete list:
- YSL Classes by Oluwatoke Adejoye from Burnaby, B.C.
- Things I Know for Sure by Katrina Agbayani from Toronto
- Pattern Recognition by Amber Allen from Guelph, Ont.
- Big Plane, Small Plane by Jeremy Audet from Montreal
- Not Too Hard, Not Too Easy by Anne Baldo from Windsor, Ont.
- Dog Song by Elizabeth Ball from Montreal
- Anniversary by Kate Cayley from Toronto
- My Mother, Margaret, and the Man Who Irons His Jeans by Lorna Crozier from North Saanich, B.C.
- Hard Neck by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove from Vancouver
- nindikwewimin: we are women by Dawnis Kennedy from Winnipeg
- The Dermis by Robin Koczerginski from Toronto
- A Season of Crows by Larah Luna from Vancouver
- How to Break Up with a Monster by Carrie Mac from Vancouver
- The Ball Game by Adam McPhee from Fort McMurray, Alta.
- Tamago by Lindsay Naito from North Vancouver, B.C.
- Red House by Nolan Natasha from Halifax
- Graveyard Shift by Brett Nelson from Vancouver
- Minuet or Maqsum by Farangis Nurulla-Khoja from Montreal
- A Second Storey by Barbara Parkin from Vancouver
- In Whose Name</