CBC Short Story Prize: 2015 longlist

The next winner of the CBC Short Story Prize was chosen from this list of 26 writers below.

• Alyson Grant for "Bargaining"
• Andres Araujo for "Blind Date"
• Donald Nikkel for "Butchering Day"
• Jeremy Thomas Gilmerfor "Congo River, County Antrim"
• JoelleBarron for "Dawson City, YT"
• Salina Brydson for "Downriver"
• Kelly Watt for "Fall of the High Flyers"
• M.V. Fierce for "Heat Wave"
• Ken Dobell for "His Tourists"
• Jennifer Amos for "Luna"
• D.W. Wilson for "Mountain Under Sea"
• Kirsten Madsen for "Mule Deer"
• Katie Arthur for "Only Her"
• Katherine Murray for "Rasputin's Song"
• MoiraDonovan for "Riptide"
• Lauren Carter for "River's Edge"
• Keith Urquhart for "Sandy Sampson"
• SheriBenningfor "Skinned"
• Erik Blachford for "The Castle"
• Roberta Rees for "The Children"
• Kelley Powell for "The Pool"
• Jane Eaton Hamilton for "The River of Running Sand"
• Iris Wilde for "The Undivided Heart of the Forty-Day Father"
• Tom McMillanfor "Uncle Ray's Tattoos"
• Tajja Isenfor "Vlog #43"
• Chad Lucas for "Windmill Facial"

Each one had a shot of winning the 2015 Grand Prize: $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine and a ten-day writing residency at The Banff Centre. Four others were named runners-up and walked away with $1,000 each.

It's now up to the jury: two-time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner Caroline Adderson, 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels and 2014 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award winner Joan Thomas. The winner was announced on April 13th, 2015.

To find out who made the longlist for the Prix de la nouvelle Radio-Canada, click here.