2024 Amazon Canada Shortlisted Youth Short Stories
The shortlisted stories in the Youth Short Story category
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Posts pertaining to the Amazon First Novel Award.
A Beautiful Mind
Alicia Elliott, author of And Then She Fell and this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, explores the method in her character’s madness.
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A Strong Narrative
How stories—even the tiniest ones—allow the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story Award to brave all of life’s plot twists
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The Return Home
This year’s nominees for Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award explore what it means to lose one’s home and find it again
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Local Shopper
The winning story in the Youth Short Story category of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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Forgetting to Remember
In her sweeping, multi-generational debut novel, Jasmine Sealy weaves together broken family ties
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Analyze This: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada Youth Short Story Award
Fiction can be an escape, but as the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category found out, it can also present an opportunity to process larger truths
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Dig Deep: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
This year’s crop of nominees for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award boldly went where they hadn’t before—narratively speaking
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Mei-Ying, the Heavens Are Crying
The winning story in the Youth Short Story Category of the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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