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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 22: “Raw Material” by A.S. Byatt

May 22, 2022June 14, 2022

Byatt’s story, about a creative writing teacher and a promising older student, contains a submerged lesson about how to write worthwhile literature.

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Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

The annual anthology series Best Canadian Stories celebrates fifty years of showcasing Canada’s proficiency and variety in the literary form

November 1, 2021June 14, 2022

“The function of it was the pleasure of the work for readers, and the value to writers was to show them how good they had to get,” says longtime series editor John Metcalf.

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