2024 SPARKS Literary Festival Featured Title!

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Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022.

Featuring:

Madhur Anand • Sharon Bala • Gary Barwin • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Xaiver Michael Campbell • Corinna Chong • Beth Downey • Allison Graves • Joel Thomas Hynes • Elise Levine • Sourayan Mookerjea • Lue Palmer • Michelle Porter • Sara Power • Ryan Turner • Ian Williams

Praise for Best Canadian Stories

“One of the best things about the end of the year is having a chance to look back. The three Best Canadian volumes—Stories, edited by Lisa Moore; Essays, edited by Marcello Di Cintio; and Poetry, edited by Bardia Sinaee—are a snapshot of some of the finest in Canadian writing this year.”
—Robert J. Wiersema, Toronto Star

“Each of the sixteen stories carries a distinctive voice; and Moore is a vociferous ventriloquist and complete angler throwing ‘a fishing line through the air with a narrative hook.’ … Under Lisa Moore’s stewardship, Biblioasis’s Best just keeps getting better.”
—Michael Greenstein, The Miramichi Reader

“A wide-ranging … interesting collection.”
—The BC Review

“The legacy for Canadian literature in the Best Canadian Stories series can’t be overstated. For years the collection has been the place to discover Canadian writers.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“Best Canadian Stories … combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country.”
—Open Book

“The arrival, late in the fall each year, of [this] collection is always cause for fanfare.”
—Quill & Quire

 

 

ABOUT THE EDITOR:

LISA MOORE is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator; the story collections Open and Something for Everyone; and the young-adult novel Flannery. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, been finalists for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Moore is also the co-librettist, along with Laura Kaminsky, of the opera February, based on her novel of the same name. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.