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A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian StoriesNow in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories
the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected from the series' wide-ranging list of contributors by editor John Metcalf,
Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories celebrates half a century of the country's best short fiction.
About the author
John Metcalf has been one of the leading editors in Canada for more than five decades, editing more than two hundred books over this time, including eighteen volumes of the
Best Canadian Stories anthology. He is also the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including
Finding Again the World: Selected Stories, Vital Signs: Collected Novellas,
An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir, and
The Museum at the End of the World. Senior Fiction Editor at Biblioasis, he lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.
