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2024 Amazon Canada Shortlisted Youth Short Stories

October 28, 2024October 29, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

The shortlisted stories in the Youth Short Story category

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A Beautiful Mind

July 3, 2024July 5, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

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

May 22, 2024July 3, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

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

May 22, 2024July 5, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

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

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 - by Danica Popovic

The winning story in the Youth Short Story category of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

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Forgetting to Remember

June 13, 2023June 13, 2023 - by Katie Underwood

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

May 25, 2023June 7, 2023 - by Katie Underwood

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