2025 CBC Short Story Prize

The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize is now open — submit your new short fiction now!

Winning the CBC Short Story Prize comes with some nice perks.
You could win:

• $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts,
• a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
• and have your work published on CBC Books.

Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The Prize is open until Fri. Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.

The winner of the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize was Kate Gunn for her story Old Bones.

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