 | Thursday, April 08, 2021 | |  | | | | If you're looking for something to read while you isolate, here are 73 short stories written by Canadians to check out. | | |  | | | | The 2021 CBC Poetry Prize is now open.
The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have their work published on CBC Books. You have until May 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET to enter! | | |  | | | | Twenty young writers from across Canada have been chosen as the finalists for The First Page student writing challenge, which asked students in Grades 7 to 12 to write the first page of a novel set 150 years in the future. The 20 finalists were chosen from over 2,000 entries submitted in the fall of 2020 — 1,601 entries were collected from the Grades 7 to 9 category and 403 entries from the Grades 10 to 12 category.
Read the finalists' stories now! | | |  | | | | Beverley McLachlin was the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. After McLachlin retired from the court, she became a writer and she has written a second thriller. It's called Denial and it will be available on Sept. 14, 2021. You can read an excerpt from Denial now. | | |  | | | | Eleanor Wachtel has travelled to many countries around the world throughout Writers & Company's 30 years to interview fascinating authors whose stories reflect the social and political events that have shaped their lives. In celebration of Writers & Company's 30th anniversary season, the show has put together a special episode called "In the Field": conversations recorded on location with Khushwant Singh, Mandla Langa, Alexis Wright and Tayeb Salih. | | |  | | | | Amanda Leduc's latest novel is The Centaur's Wife. It weaves together fairy tales and mythic creatures with a story of an apocalypse. The world has nearly ended: meteors have destroyed the city Heather and her family live in, and humanity is facing extinction. There are only a handful of survivors, including Heather, her husband and their twin daughters. Leduc spoke with Shelagh Rogers about how she wrote The Centaur's Wife on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Perdita Felicien won many thrilling races as a gold medal hurdler — and then there was the heartbreaking fall at the 2004 Olympics that cost her a much anticipated win. She called her mother after that moment, because it was her mother's faith and love that helped push Felicien to her many accomplishments. She writes about that resilience and grit in My Mother's Daughter, a debut memoir of struggle and triumph. Felicien spoke to The Next Chapter and took its version of the Proust questionnaire. | | |  | | | | Andreas Elpidorou, a professor at the University of Louisville, wants people to think deeply about the boredom they're experiencing. Boredom can benefit us, he said. It can point to something in your life that needs to change. He writes about boredom and the role it can play in his book Propelled.
He spoke to Tapestry host Mary Hynes talked to Elpidorou about boredom, and how people have responded to it in the pandemic. | | |  | | | | The ReLit Awards honour the best Canadian books published by independent presses. There are three categories: novel, short fiction and poetry. The prize is known for releasing long shortlists.
To bring the awards up to date, the prizes will announce the shortlists and winners for 2018-2021 in April, with each week in the month being devoted to a single year. | | |  | | | | Canadian poet Anne Carson is the recipient of the 2021 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The $50,000 US prize recognizes "a living author whose body of work — either written in or translated into English — represents the highest level of achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship." | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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