Debut writers from multinational publishers dominate the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize shortlist
Only one writer on this year's list, Emma Donoghue, has won the prize previously.
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Only one writer on this year's list, Emma Donoghue, has won the prize previously.
Indigo can't fail, but it also appears less and less interested in operating primarily as a bookseller.
Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.
City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.
The Marigold is a quintessential urban horror tale; The Handyman Method relocates the terror to the suburbs.
The stories display a surface placidity that belies their deeper structure.
LeBlanc's short fiction is refreshingly resistant to closure.
The Canadian situation is in stark contrast to other Western countries that have more robust copyright protections.
"He was profoundly intelligent, but quite quiet. It was sometimes hard to know what he was thinking."
"It's very important to me that we look forward and thrive and that we signal stability to the market," says Anansi president Semareh Al-Hillal.