My collection of four short stories has been shortlisted for the Black Lawrence Press Black River award. Black Lawrence is a New York-based publisher of contemporary American poetry and fiction. Not certain, but I may well be the first Canadian to make the shortlist. Congratulations to the other seven finalists listed here: http://www.blacklawrence.com/spring-2013-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists-announced/