The Prix de la nouvelle Radio-Canada is the fiction wing of the Prix de la création Radio-Canada, a long-standing national program that functions as one of the country's principal points of entry into professional literary life in French. Unlike juried prizes that require an existing publication record or agent, this is an open call: any writer may submit, and the competition is decided on the strength of the manuscript alone. The prize's institutional weight derives from its dual role as a discovery mechanism and a publication platform — the five winning texts are published in full on Radio-Canada's platforms, placing new fiction before a broad francophone readership rather than a niche literary audience. The material terms are specific and worth stating plainly. The winning author receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta. The four finalists each receive $1,000. Submissions are capped at 2,500 words with no minimum, and there is no limit on the number of distinct texts a writer may enter. Each text carries a $25 submission fee (taxes included), payable online at the point of registration. The deadline is November 1, 2026. Writers working in English are directed to the parallel CBC Prizes stream. The curatorial logic here is editorial rather than thematic: the reading committee is composed of figures from the industry, and the prize rewards the short story as a disciplined form — compression, voice, and control within a strict word ceiling. There is no prescribed subject matter. What the prize selects for, historically, is fiction that reads with authority at short length, in French, from writers at any stage who have not yet been widely published. The fee is modest but real; the return, for five writers annually, is publication, money, and time to write.