Carter V. Cooper (CVC) 10 Short Fiction Competition long list announced

The long list for Year 10 

Emerging writers   

• The Land of the Lizard-People – Rod Carley
• Tony Nappo Ruined My Life – Layne Coleman
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman – John Hart
• Hail to the Roaches! – Jacob Gilligan
• The Teazer – James Barry MacSwain
• Ms. P’s 5Ds – Heather Debling
• The Island – M. Denise Beaton
• What We Bury – Lynn Cecil
• The Life of Gabriel Saumure dit Letendre 1667-1729 – Alexis Lachaine
• Ocosingo – Jennifer DeLeskie
• An Amateur’s Guide to Going Solo – Andrea Bishop
• Sugarland – Joe Bongiorno

Any Stage writers

• Rest in Peace Francesco Porta – Bruce Meyer
• Love Letters – Catherine MacLeod
• One Year – Beth Goobie
• Neighbours – Kate Cayley
• Bastion Square – Lenore Rowntree
• Dragon Blood – Bruce Meyer

The short list will be announced Monday, October 25 – and those stories will then go to Joyce Carol Oates for her to select the winners in both categories (although we cannot provide a timeline on her final call, it should be within a week, tops two).

Thank you to all of the writers who submitted to the 10th annual competition! The judges expressed how pleased they were to have such top quality work to read – and were very encouraged to see so much emerging Canadian talent crafting some truly surprising and innovative works…

About our use of the Submittable Portal. Some authors have written wondering if their story was included for consideration, because there is no portal message/indication to say it was “opened.” Our procedure was simply to download the file, since no judges are invited to do work through the portal (this is how we keep your identity private) and thus no commenting or status changes are indicated. But for next year, this will be made clear in the submission guidelines. This is an example of a back-end message showing the uploaded file, and the date/time we processed it: