The longlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize has been announced and 17* Canadian authors have been nominated. The €25,000 prize is given to a story collection published in English between July 2014 and June 2015.

The full list of Canadian authors is:

• Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress (McClelland & Stewart)
• Kate Cayley, How You Were Born (Pedlar Press)
• Michelle Green, Jebel Marra (Comma Press)
• Tyler Keevil, Burrard Inlet (Parthian Books)
• Irina Kovalyova, Specimen (House of Anansi Press)
• Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
• Yves Meynard, Angels and Exiles (ChiZine)
• David Nickle, Knife Fight (ChiZine)
• Heather O’Neill, Daydreams of Angels (HarperCollins Canada)
• Janette Platana, A Token of my Affliction (Tightrope Books)
• Matt Rader, What I Want to Tell Goes Like This (Nightwood Editions)
• Eliza Robertson, Wallflowers (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
• Rolli, I am Currently Working on a Novel (Tightrope)
• Mireille Silcoff, Chez L’Arabe (Anansi)
• Russell Smith, Confidence (Biblioasis)
• Royston Tester, You Turn Your Back (Tightrope)
• Kathleen Winter, The Freedom in American Songs (Biblioasis)*

 

*Correction May 5: An earlier version of this story did not include longlisted English-Canadian author Kathleen Winter