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Delailah M. K. Grondin has produced the 2024 CBC Quick Story Prize longlist for Shopping.

The winner of the 2024 CBC Small Story Prize will get $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their get the job done revealed on CBC Books and attend a two-7 days writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creative imagination. The 4 remaining finalists will each and every acquire $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their perform posted on CBC Textbooks.

The shortlist will be introduced on April 18 and the winner will be declared on April 25.

If you are interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions until eventually June 1. The 2025 CBC Small Story Prize will open up in September and the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January.

About Delailah M. K. Grondin

Delailah M. K. Grondin comes from a loved ones with several cultural origins, the intricacies of which permeate her composing instantly or indirectly. In her short and extended fiction, she explores the dynamics of competing cultural pressures, generational expectations and the complexities of relationships inside these push-pull spheres. Delailah holds a master of arts diploma in inventive producing from the University of Windsor. She not long ago accomplished her to start with novel.

Entry in five-ish terms

“Spirited grandmother, annoyed granddaughter.”

The story’s supply of inspiration

“The inspiration is twofold: The complexity of wanting to be different and the identical time section of, and the decisions, perceptions and expectations that inhabit this desire.

“A pair of properly-worn leather sandals, operator, mysterious.”

Very first strains

My Bibi slap-slunks down the drug retailer aisles. I really don’t know by what power her chappals remain on her feet. Those brown leather sandals that she wears no matter what time. It is heading to rain, I will say. And she will solution, as she often does, ah, Bacha, there is these kinds of tiny rain at dwelling. I like the sense of raindrops on my toes. What about snow, Bibi? 

Check out the rest of the longlist

The longlist was selected from additional than 1,900 submissions. A group of 12 writers and editors from throughout Canada compiled the record.

The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers’ longlisted alternatives. This year’s jury is comprised of Suzette Mayr, Kevin Chong and Ashley Audrain. 

The complete longlist is:

• The White Stetson Hat by Dennis Allen (Edmonton)
• Depart A Funny Concept at the Beep by Vincent Anioke (Waterloo, Ont.)
• How Significantly Really should You Go? by Anne Baldo (Windsor, Ont.)
• Type Woman Lives Here by Jennifer Booth (Cambridge, Ont.)
• A Quite Entire Lifestyle by Rebecca Cuneo Keenan (Toronto)
• 4-Boot Fred by Izzy Ferguson (Dundas, Ont.)
• The Sea Arrives Pouring In by Phil Glennie (London, Ont.)
• We Questioned Much too Considerably From God by Marian Godfrey (Victoria)
• Aged Bones by Kate Gunn (Vancouver)
• dim by Mirabelle Chiderah Harris-Eze (Calgary)
• Lamentations by Miriam Ho Nga Wai (Toronto)
• Tremor of the Tongue by Nnamdi Ibeanusi (Kitchener, Ont.)
• How to Make a Mate by Zilla Jones (Winnipeg)
• Purchasing by Delailah M. K. Grondin (Windsor, Ont.)
• Little Presents by Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li (Toronto)
• Very best by Annick MacAskill (Halifax)
• Transcendence by Britt MacKenzie-Dale (Kelowna, B.C.)
• Outpour by Lauren McNeil (Revelstoke, B.C.)
• The Ball Activity by Adam McPhee (Fort McMurray, Alta.)
• Fish Sauce by Alexandra Musten (Ottawa)
• Tamago by Lindsay Naito (North Vancouver, B.C.)
• the worst has presently transpired by KM Naud (Vancouver)
• A Very good Check out by Susan Paddon (Margaree, N.S.)
• Fermentation by June Pyo Park (Montreal)
• The Inexperienced Visitor Household by Mina Sharif (Toronto)
• How to Give Your Grief to the Moon by Traci Skuce (Courtenay, B.C.)
• Disprin by Kailash Srinivasan (North Vancouver, B.C.)
• The Little one by Kailash Srinivasan (North Vancouver, B.C.)
• Smack Dab by D.D.R.Staines (Cambridge, Ont.)
• Authorization to Pause by Carley Thorne (Toronto)