Okanagan College professor makes Giller Prize longlist

Corinna Chong, Professor of English, Creative Writing and Fine Arts at Okanagan College is in the running for Canada's biggest literary award in fiction, the Giller Prize.

Chong is on the shortlist of 12 writers for her novel Bad Land.

That list will be whittled down to five finalists in October before the 2024 winner is announced in November, along with the $100,000 first prize.

Bad Land, described by three-time Giller Prize nominee and Booker Prize long-listed author Lisa Moore as "a masterpiece about family, how it rips us apart and also tethers us forever," is not Chong's first highly acknowledged work. She won the CBC Short Story Prize in 2021 for Kids in Kindergarten.

Check out the video to learn more about Chong and her growing reputation in Canadian literature.