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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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.

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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
"Combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country."--Open Book Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, Best Canadian Stories 2026 provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction...
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales...
A way to be happy
Adderson, Caroline
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize * A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 * A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order...
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,...
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