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The 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize is open!
You could win $6,000, a writing residency and have your work published on CBC Books. The deadline to submit is March 1, 2025 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
December 20, 2024
CBC Poetry Prize
The 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1, 2024
CBC Short Story Prize
The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1, 2024
Rachel Robb explores what reconciliation means to a non-Indigenous person and wins 2024 CBC Poetry Prize
The Toronto writer spoke to Mattea Roach about the inspiration behind her CBC Literary Prize-winning work. Robb will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her poem has been published on CBC Books.
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes January 15
Zoe Whittall, Danny Ramadan and Helen Knott to judge 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes January 8
Books by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists that came out in 2024
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes December 19, 2024

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 17, 2024

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Corinna Chong confronts truth and the strange landscapes of the Alberta Badlands in her fiction

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 9, 2024

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 10, 2024

Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie to judge 2025 CBC Short Story Prize

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 9, 2024

Aldona Dziedziejko's poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 13, 2024

5 writers make the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist

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Books CBC Literary Prizes September 19, 2024

30 writers from across Canada make 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist

Books CBC Literary Prizes September 12, 2024

David Huebert explores the complexity of our relationship with oil in novel Oil People

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Past winner David Huebert shares 5 reasons to enter the CBC Short Story Prize

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Books CBC Literary Prizes August 23, 2024

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