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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Posts pertaining to the Amazon First Novel Award.
The Fountain of Youth
If uninhibited creativity is a young person’s game, the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category prize have more than a few nuggets of wisdom for their literary peers.
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Love and Grief
Pik-Shuen Fung, winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, discusses the unbearable lightness of grief.
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Reality Bites
Nominees of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award discuss the reality-illuminating—and reality-obscuring—properties of fiction
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AFNA Shortlist: Episode 19 of The Deep Dive
Five questions for authors Emily Austin, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pik-Shuen Fung, Brian Thomas Isaac, Conor Kerr, and Aimee Wall
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Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
The author of Ghost Forest (Strange Light) is the winner of the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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Utopia, or Something Like It
The six finalists of this year’s Amazon First Novel Award’s Youth Short Story category dream up their best possible futures, despite some very real fears
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‘We’re still here’
Michelle Good’s devastating debut — which features interwoven testaments of the trauma incurred by residential school survivors — is the book Canada needs now
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Lost Childhood
Winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in the Youth Short Story Category for 2021
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Michelle Good Wins 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
We are thrilled to announce the winner
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