The other shortlisted writers were Booker Prize 2025 longlisted author Andrew Miller; multi-award winning Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, Desmond Elliott Prize winning novelist and short story specialist Edward Hogan; and British-Lebanese author Emily Abdeni-Holman. You can listen to all of their stories here.

Four Corners Writers will unveil the cover and announce selected works for “Four Corners Voices – Volume 2,” its second anthology of poetry, essays and short stories, at a public event at 5 p.m.

"USA Today" bestselling author Kristen Painter headlines the anthology with her story “Just One Wish,” in which the owner of an antiques shop in Cocoa Village uncorks a cursed genie who can escape his glass prison only one way: if he finds true love’s kiss before midnight.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two books of non-fiction.

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Imraan Covoodia among authors shortlisted for international science fiction literary accolades to be held in Moscow

Madeleine Thien and Cassandra Calin are among the shortlisted authors for the 2025 Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) literary awards. Established by the Quebec Writers' Federation in 1988, the $3,000 QWF Literary Awards annually honour the best books published by English-language writers and translators in Quebec in seven categories.