Halifax native David Huebert wins 2016 CBC Short Story Prize for ‘Enigma’

TORONTO – Halifax native David Huebert is the winner of the 2016 CBC Short Story Prize.

Huebert will be awarded $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts for his winning entry “Enigma.”

Huebert’s short story will be published in the May edition of Air Canada’s enRoute magazine, and he’ll also receive a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre.

His first poetry collection “We Are No Longer The Smart Kids In Class” (Guernica Editions) was published last fall, and his fictional work has appeared in magazines including Grain, Broken Pencil, subTerrain and The Puritan.

Four runners-up for the prize will each receive $1,000.

They are:

— Matthew Belyea of Saint John, N.B., for “Jake, the Imposter.”

— Justine Mazin of Toronto for “Packing Snow.”

— Stephanie Kennedy Sobol of Toronto for “20 Percent Donnas.”

— Elaine Stirling of Toronto for “Restitution.”

Johanne Alice Cote was named winner of the French grand prize for “Je t’écrirai dans l’air.”