AFNA

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

Podcasts

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

The book cover for the AFNA 2022 winning novel.

Arts & Culture

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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Utopia, or Something Like It

September 10, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

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’

July 2, 2021June 22, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

Michelle Good’s devastating debut — which features interwoven testaments of the trauma incurred by residential school survivors — is the book Canada needs now