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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

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Dig Deep: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist

May 11, 2023June 7, 2023 - by Katie Underwood

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

September 14, 2022April 19, 2023 - by Caitlin Mah

The winning story in the Youth Short Story Category of the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

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The Fountain of Youth

August 18, 2022August 19, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

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

June 23, 2022June 28, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

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

May 27, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

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

May 26, 2022May 30, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

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

May 20, 2022April 19, 2023 - by The Walrus Staff

The author of Ghost Forest (Strange Light) is the winner of the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award

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