Writers' Trust of Canada - 50 Years
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Erin Soros

Erin Soros writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her essays have appeared in Carte Blanche, English Studies in Canada, TOPIA, and Exile Literary Quarterly. Her poetry won The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and was included in Best Canadian Poetry 2020. Soros’s nonfiction received the 2023 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Award and won Gold at the 2021 National Magazine Awards for “One of a Kind Storytelling.” Her fiction received the CBC Literary Award and the Commonwealth Award for the Short Story. She lives in Vancouver.  

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“In ‘You Have to Live Long and Be Happy,’ Erin Soros tunnels through a peaceful interlude, a woman visiting Ireland with her elderly mother, into darkness and troubled pasts. With restraint, the author addresses deep-seated questions: how might suspicion and terror operate across generations? How does memory shape perception? This short piece travels astonishing distances of time and memory via meticulous, lyrical observations, but for now, mother and daughter ride tour buses and go to pubs, staving off their mutual, inevitable loss.”—2026 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Creative Nonfiction Jury (Alison Calder, Robert McGill, Padma Viswanathan)