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