Ahead of the May 13 announcement of this year’s winner, Q&Q caught up with Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, and Janika Oza to find what significance the prize has for them and what stories they sought to tell in their shortlisted novels.
Excerpt from Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI
Cynthia Flood on writing: Excerpt from Off the Record
Caroline Adderson on kidlit: Excerpt from Off the Record
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia on her debut collection and ECW’s BIPOC writers mentorship program
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia was one of the first-round mentees in spring 2021, and she was paired with in-house ECW editor Jen Albert.
Beyond the cover: Canadian team bringing more manga to English readers
Dan K. Woo on editing an anthology of new Chinese Canadian writing
The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us brings together nine stories from both emerging and published writers including Anna Ling Kaye, Lydia Kwa, Eddy Boudel Tan, Isabella Wang, and Bingji Ye, whose story is translated by Woo himself.
Eric Kostiuk Williams’s collection of party posters immortalizes Toronto’s pre-COVID queer nightlife
2AM Eternal: A Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters + Comics will be published in a large format paperback on May 30, by New York state–based press Secret Acres.
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction shortlisted authors on their work and what being shortlisted means to them
The five writers shortlisted for the prize hail from different parts of the continent and their books differ widely in style and form, but each work contains important stories its author needed to tell.
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