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Dorian McNamara Wins the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize!

Congratulations to Halifax writer Dorian McNamara, who has won the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize for his story You (Streetcar at Night). You (Streetcar at Night) tells the story of the before and after ...

April 17, 2025

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The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize Names This Year's Finalists

With an impressive track-record of kickstarting or boosting the careers of dozens of exciting authors, the CBC Short Story Prize is back at it again in 2025 with some riveting selections. Canada's might ...

April 11, 2025

Every Ingredient in Our Ancestors' Kitchen by Willie Poll Thrums With Meaning and Tradition

Métis activist and storyteller Willie Poll has deep connections to her community and traditions, all of which is on full display in a beautiful new picture book from the author. Poll's poetic voice ...

April 05, 2025

Amy LeBlanc Explores What Happens When a Body No Longer Feels Like a Home in Her New Poetry Collection

There are many works of art about illness and disability, but the language and metaphors used to explore such conditions can often be infused with negative, even violent terms that do not truly represent ...

April 04, 2025

Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology is an Eclectic Collection of Fiction and a Call to Action

There have been some excellent anthologies featured on Open Book, and many of those have had wide-ranging themes and focuses, from terrifying campfire tales by acclaimed Indigenous authors to erotic yarns ...

April 01, 2025