André Alexis is the first Canadian writer to win The Story Prize, the $20,000 (U.S.) prize awarded annually for the best short-story collection published originally in English in the U.S., which was announced in New York on March 31.

Alexis won for his 2025 short story collection Other Worlds, published in the U.S. by FSG Originals and in Canada by McClelland & Stewart.

The judges said of the collection: “Being many things at once, full of sly innovations, and quietly upending conventions, Other Worlds is wholly original and wholly itself.”

Other Worlds is Alexis’s third collection of short stories.

Alexis was one of three writers shortlisted for this year’s prize. The other finalists were Lydia Millet for Atavists and Ayşegül Savaş for Long Distance.

Previous winners of the prize include Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, Elizabeth Strout, Lauren Groff, and Fiona McFarlane.