The Dishwasher Sees Everything
Fresh off winning this year’s Amazon First Novel Award, Stéphane Larue discusses how the backdoor POV of a restaurant’s busiest employee became an unforgettable tale of survival
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Writing the Revolution
The six shortlisted authors for this year’s Amazon First Novel Award share the literary firebrands that inspire them to push their own fictional boundaries
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Shifting Narratives: Casey Plett’s Little Fish
An interview with the winner of the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award on the state of trans stories in fiction and on making diverse, once-quieted voices come to life
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A Work of One’s Own
Nominees for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Youth Short Story category share how they find their voice amid the cacophony of the information age.
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Is This Real Life?
In light of the current trend towards blurring fiction and memoir, we asked the nominees of the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award to reveal exactly how much of themselves is infused in their works
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