Thirty writers from different parts of Canada have been selected for the longlist of the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize out of nearly 3,000 entries. The list includes:
- YSL Classes by Oluwatoke Adejoye from Burnaby, B.C.
- Things I Know for Sure by Katrina Agbayani from Toronto
- Pattern Recognition by Amber Allen from Guelph, Ontario
- Big Plane, Small Plane by Jeremy Audet from Montreal
- Not Too Hard, Not Too Easy by Anne Baldo from Windsor, Ontario
- Dog Song by Elizabeth Ball from Montreal
- Anniversary by Kate Cayley from Toronto
- My Mother, Margaret, and the Man Who Irons His Jeans by Lorna Crozier from North Saanich, B.C.
- Hard Neck by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove from Vancouver
- nindikwewimin: we are women by Dawnis Kennedy from Winnipeg
- The Dermis by Robin Koczerginski from Toronto
- A Season of Crows by Larah Luna from Vancouver
- How to Break Up with a Monster by Carrie Mac from Vancouver
- The Ball Game by Adam McPhee from Fort McMurray, Alberta
- Tamago by Lindsay Naito from North Vancouver, B.C.
- Red House by Nolan Natasha from Halifax
- Graveyard Shift by Brett Nelson from Vancouver
- Minuet or Maqsum by Farangis Nurulla-Khoja from Montreal
- A Second Storey by Barbara Parkin from Vancouver
- In Whose Name by Earle Peach from Vancouver
- The Quiet Profession of Being Mrs. Khan by Zinnia J. Qureshi from Mississauga, Ontario
- Highway 11 by Nicholas Ruddock from Guelph, Ontario
- <a href="https://www.cbc
