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April 24, 2023
CBC LISTEN: On the Go with Anthony Germain "Short Story, Long Sentence" with Nicholas Ruddock Listen here 
Five finalists have been chosen from more than 2300 entries from across the country
The Grand Prize winner, announced April 18, will receive a $6000 cash prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point CBC Books, CBC’s online home for literary content, together with its partner the Canada Council for the Arts, have announced the finalists for the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. The finalists are:
In Review
Last Hummingbird West of Chile "It is Ruddock’s gifted command of language, wit and wild imagination that suspends all disbelief and takes readers on a fantastic voyage, often through dark scenes and controversial themes." –Guelph Today Full Interview 
"A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and thoughtful."
–Atlantic Books Full Review Launch
Last Hummingbird West of Chile Nicholas Ruddock's new novel is released with Breakwater Books 
March 2020
The Moth Poetry Prize shortlist, chosen by the American poet Claudia Rankine, is announced today. The skilful use of language in Nicholas Ruddock’s Genetic Memory, Rankine says, "allows us to simultaneously exist in the past, present, and future."
The story "Ventimiglia" is shortlisted for the Circus Berlin Short Story Award 2020. Read an excerpt here.
"Esther" wins the 2017 Bridport Prize for fiction. The judge, Peter Hobbs, writes: "Technically so accomplished, but playful too in its form and its long sentences. It plays with plot more than most stories, but the work of plotting is done so slyly it is almost invisible. There are many details, but none are extraneous. It has real humanity to it, and a tremendous cumulative power, conjuring the lives of its protagonists in a handful of pages, allowing us to live beside them for years, and ensuring that the final emotional pay-off is utterly devastating." 
"The Phosphorescence," a short story, is in Brick #98 
Shortlisted for the EFG Short Story Award for "The Phosphorescence"
Night Ambulance, a novel, is released by Breakwater Books, 2016 Night Ambulance from translucence on Vimeo. |
Recent Short Fiction
"Polio" Fuel Anthology UK 2023 "Sweet Boy" Manchester Met Shortlist May 2022 "The Luxembourg Gardens" TSS publishing UK Feb 2021 "First Car" NF Quarterly Summer 2020 "Ventimiglia" Circus Anthology KLAK Verlag 2020 "Fortune Bay, 1972" and "The Emergency Department" Newfoundland Quarterly 2019 "Esther" Bridport Prize Anthology Winner of the 2017 Bridport Prize for Short Fiction "The Phosphorescence" Brick Magazine 98 Winter 2017 Shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2016 "Knight Errant" Brick Magazine 97 May 2016 Toronto "Three Microfictions" Irish Pages 2015 Belfast, Ireland "Mario Vargas Llosa" Exile Quarterly 2015 Toronto "Transformation" Fish 2015, second place Ireland "Snow" CBC Creative Nonfiction Longlist 2015 "George Mallory" Bridport Anthology 2014, second place UK "Polio" Bridport Anthology 2013, first place UK |
