Chanel Sutherland is a Vincentian-Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut short story collection, Layaway Child, will be published by House of Anansi in 2026. Chanel won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize, and received the 2022 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship. CBC Books named her one of 30 Writers to Watch in 2022.
‘Down here, a thought was a precious thing. It carried our entire lives.’
Fiction by Chanel Sutherland.
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