CBC announced the finalists for the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize on Wednesday morning.
Among them is Alix Hawley, a Kelowna author whose story Witching has her in the top five for the prize.
Each contestant was asked to sum up their entry in five words for an online bio.
Hawley’s reads, “soldier comes home, girlfriend flips.”
This isn’t the first time Hawley’s writing has been up for a major prize.
Her novel All True Not a Lie In It won Amazon’s First Novel Award in 2015 and her short story Pig (for Oma) won the Canada Writes ‘Bloodlines’ short story contest in 2013.
Hawley isn’t the only British Columbian up for the top prize, as Vancouver’s Meg Todd was also named a top five finalist.
The other three finalists are Kasia Juno of Montreal, Krzysztof J. Pelc of Montreal and Jasmina Odor of Edmonton.
Here is the 2017 @CBC Short Story Prize shortlist: https://t.co/zgdILZVbUZ pic.twitter.com/LNeaP2an4Z
— CBC Books (@cbcbooks) April 12, 2017
Their stories were selected from more than 1,800 that were submitted from across Canada and they can all be read at CBCBooks.ca.
The winner of this year’s prize will be announced on April 19th and they’ll receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a 10-day writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Their work will also be published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine.
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