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Rachel Robb explores what reconciliation means to a non-Indigenous person and wins 2024 CBC Poetry Prize
Toronto-based writer Rachel Robb will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her poem has been published on CBC Books.
Books CBC Literary Prizes November 21
CBC Nonfiction Prize
The CBC Nonfiction Prize is open for submissions from Jan. 1 until March 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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Books CBC Literary Prizes March 28
CBC Poetry Prize
The 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1
CBC Short Story Prize
The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1
5 writers make the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes November 14
27 writers from across Canada make 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
Books CBC Literary Prizes November 7

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Books by past CBC Short Story Prize winners and finalists published in 2024

Daphné Santos-Vieira

Books CBC Literary Prizes October 17

Zilla Jones' debut novel explores a mixed-race woman's search for identity and belonging

Books October 29

Corinna Chong confronts truth and the strange landscapes of the Alberta Badlands in her fiction

Books October 18

3 books that explore the novelty of writing about writers

Bridget Raymundo

Radio The Next Chapter October 18

Juror Conor Kerr thinks you should submit to the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize

Daphné Santos-Vieira

Books CBC Literary Prizes October 9

Meet the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize readers

Books CBC Literary Prizes October 10

Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie to judge 2025 CBC Short Story Prize

Daphné Santos-Vieira

Books CBC Literary Prizes October 9

Aldona Dziedziejko's poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Daphné Santos-Vieira

Books CBC Literary Prizes November 13

5 writers make the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist

Daphné Santos-Vieira

Books CBC Literary Prizes September 19

30 writers from across Canada make 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist

Books CBC Literary Prizes September 12

David Huebert explores the complexity of our relationship with oil in novel Oil People

Books September 19

Past winner David Huebert shares 5 reasons to enter the CBC Short Story Prize

Books Canada Writes September 16

Sign up for the CBC Short Story Prize writing tips newsletter

Books CBC Literary Prizes August 23

These 14 writers recently won some of Canada's biggest literary awards

Books September 2

CBC Books' writers to watch: 30 Canadian writers making their mark in 2024

B.C. writer Kailash Srinivasan wins $2.5K Writers' Union of Canada's Annual Short Fiction Competition

Memoir writing award created to honour past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalist Amy MacRae

Anya Thadani, Hayley Peters win the First Page student writing challenge

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