31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 2: “Red Wind” by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler was the original poet laureate of the 20th century hardboiled detective story.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 1: Best Canadian Stories 2026
The thing about Zsuzsi Gartner is she's fearless.
“We pay attention”: The stories in Nina Dunic’s debut collection address the ways we connect – or don’t – with one another
Many of the stories in Suddenly Light deal with separation, either emotional or literal.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
M&S has “support of the estate” for redacted text in Alistair MacLeod story, says publisher
Alexander MacLeod, Alistair's son and a fellow M&S author, said he had "no knowledge of this change."
McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.
Canadian Chanel Sutherland wins the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Sutherland says the structure of the story was "a risk" that arose out of her belief that "every enslaved person deserves to have their story told with dignity."
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 31: “The Underside of a Wing” by Paola Ferrante
Ferrante's tale shows the ongoing potential for the short form to continue to evolve outside a strictly mimetic mode.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 30: “lived experience” by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Belcourt's tactic in "lived experience" is to trouble this unquestioned notion of progress and urban gentrification.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 29: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
The presentation of the technology in the story firmly situates it in the tech skeptic realm.