32 writers make the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize longlist

The next winner of the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize will be found among this list of 32 Canadian writers, which includes journalists Judith Timson and Spencer Osberg, visual artist Julie Butler and designer Laura Mensinga.

Here is the complete list of finalists:

• "Heavy Scarves" by Fatuma Adar
• "Fourth Son of Fourth Wife" by Natalie Appleton
• "The Inequity Workers" by Afua Asantewaa
• "The Monster You Know You Are" by Sarah Bennett
• "Father Knew Best" by Donna Besel
• "Ducks Are Rising" by Jocie Brooks
• "What Lies in Sight of the Teller" by Susan Buis
• "Practising Grief" by Julie Butler
• "Coyote Moon" by Deborah Carr
• "Six Breaths" by Emily Casali
• "Adaptation" by Leslie A. Davidson
• "The Space Between Graves" by Chelsea Derksen
• "Based on a True Story" by Mafoya Dossoumon
• "The Archaeologist's Last Visit" by Machenka Eriksen
• "Big Timber Small Trout" by Paul Fitzgerald
• "Saturn's Return" by Jessie Fletcher
• "Dead Inside" by D.E. Graham
• "Because We're Not at the Ocean" by Christine Higdon
• "George Orwell and the State of My Personal Happiness" by Glen Johnson
• "Eighteen" by Shannon Linden
• "Character" by Helen Han Wei Luo
• "Undercurrent" by Robin K. Macdonald
• "Slash" by Laura Mensinga
• "The Painted Blackbird" by Lizy Mostowski
• "What Was in Me" by Jack Neary
• "Odd Jobs" by Susan Olding
• "Dawn in Damascus" by Spencer Osberg
• "For Those Who See Stars in the Water" by Julie Anne Pattee
• "The Crack" by Nora Rock
• "Through the Front Page" by Judith Timson
• "The Star in My Dream" by Iryn Tushabe
• "The Cure for Anything" by Katie Yeoman

The longlist was selected by a team of readers, all published Canadian authors: Carol Daniels, Alison DeLory, Taras Grescoe, Dean Jobb, Tracey Lindberg, George Melnyk, Dave (D.D.) Miller, Lana Pesch, J. Jill Robinson and Yasuko Thanh.

The jury, which consists of Brian Brett, Diane Schoemperlen and Drew Hayden Taylor, will select the four finalists and the grand prize winner. The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 14 and the grand prize winner will be revealed on Sept. 21, 2016.The winning author will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada enRoute magazine and a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

To check out the longlist for the French competition, go to the Prix du rcit Radio-Canada 2016.

Still want to compete? The CBC Poetry Prize will be accepting submissions until May 31, 2017.