Short Stories

CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories

Award History - Award Details - Entry Information - Winners

History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants "honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal."

For more information about the CAA Awards for Adult Literature, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories

About the Award

The CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories allows recognition of Canada's outstanding writers of short stories, who have not been eligible for the CAA Award for Fiction.

CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories is for a collection of short stories by a single author.

Funding History

This award was made possible through the generosity of a generous donor who chooses to remain anonymous from 1997 to 2005, after which funding was withdrawn.

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Entry Information

This Award Requires Funding

This award has been withdrawn. If you would like to sponsor this award, please see the information on our CAA Awards Funding page.

Entry Details

The nominations deadline is December 15th each year. Entries should be postmarked by that date, except for works published after December 1st, in which case they must be postmarked no later than January 15th in the following year.

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CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories Winners

1997 Alice Munro - Selected Stories
1998 Joanne Gerber - In the Misleading Absence of Light
1999 Dennis Bock - Olympia
2000 Uma Parameswaran - What was Always Hers
2001 Lynn Coady - Play the Monster Blind
2002 Melissa Hardy - Uncharted Heart
2003 Lisa Moore - Open
2004 Stuart McLean - Vinyl Café Diaries
2005 Frances Itani - Poached Egg on Toast
2006 This award has been withdrawn.

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Updated: October 16, 2005