Short Story Month

May is Short Story Month! Here is a list of great short story collections to help you celebrate short fiction this month and all year long.

Updated April 21, 2026
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The Age of Calamities: Stories
Ahmad, Senaa
Paper Book
Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories. In this bold debut collection, Senaa Ahmad pushes the boundaries of history and its figures, sending...
Welcome to the Neighbourhood: Stories
Young, Clea
Paper Book
In Clea Young's arresting sophomore collection of stories, friendships fail, families stumble, and neighbours know each other's business Distinctly rooted in the Pacific Northwest, Young's characters make their marks and take their missteps on the beaches, in the mountains and...
BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2026
Paper Book
CA
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
A LibraryReads pick! A Best Book of the Year from Esquire. Most Anticipated from Lit Hub, Book Riot, Portalist, NPR, Men's Health, Trill Mag and Esquire. Featured in: NPR and Book Riot. Full of glimpses into...
A way to be happy
Adderson, Caroline
Paper Book
CA
Skin
Bush, Catherine
Paper Book
Finalist, ForewordINDIES Book of the Year (Short Stories) Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada's most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between...
Coexistence : stories
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reserves and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters...
Other Worlds : Stories
Alexis, Andre.
Paper Book
Winner of The Story Prize * Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize * Shortlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Award * A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025 The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds - real, invented, uncanny - in this ingenious,...
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories
Mason Pierre, Terese
Paper Book
A CBC Best Book of 2025 A groundbreaking anthology of haunting stories by Black Canadian writers Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections,...
Brawler: Stories
Groff, Lauren
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Groff is one of this country's most successful and versatile literary figures."--New York Times "Required reading."--Los Angeles Times "A knockout."--Minnesota Star Tribune A stunning,...

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