The choice of Pierre-Marc Asselin

• Joan’s roomby Andrée-Anne Tardy: The strength of this short story lies in the wonderful way in which it manages to make sense over time. It is based on a very well-developed process: the depiction of a bedroom in seven different periods in the life of the main character. If this formal bias is remembered both Promby Ettore Scola, at Places where I slept, by George Perec, the author manages to treat it with originality and sensitivity, while leaving enough space for readers to imagine the life and personality of the people living in the area. Thus, the aquarium, the posters or the contents of the trash can be so many visible traces that testify through the metonymy within Jeanne and in the content of the events that led her from childhood to old age.

The choice of Ariane Gélinas

• Learn to respawn, by Perrine H. Leblan: This news aroused my interest and curiosity, and took me to the narrator on the steep mountain on which the bicycle was traversed. The writing and the dialogues are flexible and fluid. The rhythm of the text is consistent and perfectly adapted to the story. The action and suspense management is very successful, and the originality can be seen in the way the theme of loss is portrayed. The characters are well described and clearly defined. The short story, in its deployment, its title and its ending, forms a coherent, enjoyable and surprising whole, carried by a provocative and delicate pen.

The choice of Marie-Josée Martin

• Weekendby Michel Trépanier: This text made me think of Vian – or at least I still have a vague memory of him To spend days in vain, read that long ago. Fantasy marries reality. I especially liked the picture painted by the city on page 8. The accuracy of the language and pictures is pleasant. I fell into several formulations, including “the irreversible outer world”.

Maude Paquette’s choice

• To make pickles …by Frédéric Hardel: From the first lines, the reader meets an enticing character, a leading woman who in turn introduces us to an extraordinary adventurer. With a well -executed story, this is the place women in history have been told here. Surprisingly, the reader discovers the story of a brave adventurer who marked his time.

Members of the selection committee for the Prix de la Nouvelle Radio-Canada 2022

Pierre-Marc Asselin worked in Montreal as a renowned reading trainer. In September, he published the first collection of short stories, The Most Rude, Editions du Boréal. His short stories and essays have appeared in magazines Moebius, Backlight, catchy, nyx, District F, Analysis of Saturn at Flaubert’s saliva. He currently teaches literature in college.

Ariane Gelinas is the general and literary co-director of Le Sabord art edition. He has published seventy short stories in several periodicals and is the author of eight books. Among them, the novels The faceless child (XYZ), the sleeping villages trilogy (Leaf Marchand), which won him Arts Excellence, Jacques-Brossard and Aurora-Boréal awards, and the collection of short stories criminals (Alire), co-written with Maureen Martineau and published last year.

Translator-reviser, Marie-Josee Martin founded L’expressive, a language services company that specializes in egalitarian writing skills. He published three novels: Son of Ariadne, One day they will hear my silence (David), winner of four literary awards, including the Ottawa Book Prize, and Law and Doctrine (Prise de parole), first volume of the feminist anticipation trilogy After Massāla.

Maude Paquette is a writer and researcher. For nine years he was chief researcher of the radio show The more the merrier, the more we read! and have participated in numerous documentaries and service shows. He holds a master’s degree in literary studies from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

A real springboard for Canadian writers, the Prix de la création Radio-Canada is open to anyone writing, whether novice or professional. Each year, they award the best stories (story experiences), short stories and unpublished poems submitted to the competition.