
2024 Amazon Canada Shortlisted Youth Short Stories
The shortlisted stories in the Youth Short Story category
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The shortlisted stories in the Youth Short Story category
Read MoreAlicia 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.
Read MoreHow 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
Read MoreThis year’s nominees for Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award explore what it means to lose one’s home and find it again
Read MoreThe winning story in the Youth Short Story category of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Read MoreIn her sweeping, multi-generational debut novel, Jasmine Sealy weaves together broken family ties
Read MoreFiction 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
Read MoreThis year’s crop of nominees for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award boldly went where they hadn’t before—narratively speaking
Read MoreThe winning story in the Youth Short Story Category of the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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