 | Thursday, September 12, 2024 | |  | | | | Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American writer who has taken the literary scene by storm with his debut novel, Martyr! And now he's the very first guest on Bookends with Mattea Roach, CBC's new author interview show.
Martyr! follows a 20-something Iranian American poet named Cyrus in his early years of sobriety. | | |  | | | | Thirty writers from across Canada have been longlisted for the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize. The winner will receive $6,000, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. | | |  | | | | The tensions between being a mother and an artist show up throughout O'Neill's latest novel The Capital of Dreams, which follows 14-year-old Sofia who lives in a war-torn country with her famous writer mother. O’Neill spoke to her fellow Canada Reads champion on Bookends with Mattea Roach. | | |  | | | | The Norse and Celtic folktale known as "The Selkie Wife" tells the tale of a fisherman who falls in love with a selkie woman and hides her sealskin so she cannot return to the sea, that is, until her child steals it back for her years later. Toronto writer Rose Sutherland reinvents this classic myth from a woman-centric view in her debut novel A Sweet Sting of Salt.
Sutherland spoke about her writing inspiration on The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing. | | |  | | | | In Paying For It: a comic-strip memoir about being a john, Montreal-born cartoonist Chester Brown tells the honest and transactional nature of his experiences with sex workers after the end of a long-term relationship. Vancouver-born filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee offers a cinematic approach to the comic with a new perspective only she can bring as the former partner of Brown. Lee spoke about her experience adapting the memoir for CBC Arts’ essay series, Cutaways. | | |  | | | | A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for September 2024. | | |  | | | | In real life, an unreliable narrator can be a problem. But in fiction it can be a unique way to let a story unfold. The Next Chapter columnist Christine Estima recommends three novels with less than trustworthy protagonists. | | |  | | | | Toronto writer Claire Cameron is known for captivating readers with her novels The Line Painter and The Last Neanderthal — and she's now tackling nonfiction with her memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. Cameron investigates a 1991 bear attack that killed a couple camping in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park, a rare and out-of-the-ordinary event that's haunted her since she worked at a summer camp there at that time. Read an excerpt now. | | |  | | | | The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will be accepting submissions between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET (1:59 p.m. PT).
You can submit your original, unpublished short fiction for a chance to win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have your story published on CBC Books. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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