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The winning story in the Youth Short Story Category of the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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The winning story in the Youth Short Story Category of the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MorePik-Shuen Fung, winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, discusses the unbearable lightness of grief.
Read MoreNominees of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award discuss the reality-illuminating—and reality-obscuring—properties of fiction
Read MoreFive questions for authors Emily Austin, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pik-Shuen Fung, Brian Thomas Isaac, Conor Kerr, and Aimee Wall
Read MoreThe author of Ghost Forest (Strange Light) is the winner of the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreMichelle Good’s devastating debut — which features interwoven testaments of the trauma incurred by residential school survivors — is the book Canada needs now
Read MoreWinner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in the Youth Short Story Category for 2021
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