2013 Danuta Gleed Award Shortlist
The Writers' Union of Canada is pleased to announce the short list of nominees for the seventeenth annual DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD. The Award recognizes the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2013. The Award consists of cash prizes for the three best first collections, with a first prize of $10,000 and two additional prizes of $500. The jury this year comprised authors Candas Jane Dorsey, Russell Wangersky, and Ian Williams, who determined the short list from 28 collections submitted. The jury noted the task of creating a short list of five titles was very difficult due to the depth and quality of the submissions they read. This is an ongoing testament to the strength and value of the short story in Canadian literature, and is an especially poignant tribute to the form in the year following Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize win. **Also on the list but not shown here is The Secret Life of Fission by Paul Carlucci.
