January 5, 2010. Getting the New Year started with a bang, The Afterword has announced the longlist for 'Canada Also Reads,' a shadow competition of the CBC's 'Canada Reads' and our LPG publishers have made out like bandits!

We want to congratulate our publishers and authors and encourage everyone to write in to request that your favourite be included in the shortlist:

Martha Baillie / The Incident Report / Pedlar Press

Kyle Buckley / The Laundromat Essay / Coach House Books

Sean Costello / Here After / Your Scrivener Press

Claudia Dey / Stunt / Coach House Books

Jeramy Dodds / Crabwise to the Hounds / Coach House Books

Jon Paul Fiorentino / Stripmalling / ECW Press

Stacey May Fowles / Be Good / Tightrope Books

Stacey May Fowles / Fear of Fighting / Invisible Publishing

Carla Gunn / Amphibian / Coach House Books

Maggie Helwig / Girls Fall Down / Coach House Books

Andrew Hood / Pardon Our Monsters / Esplanade (Vehicule Press)

Mike Hoolboom / The Steve Machine / Coach House Books

John McFetridge / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / ECW Press

Claire Mulligan / The Reckoning of Boston Jim / Brindle & Glass

Aaron Peck / The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis / Pedlar Press

Chad Pelley / Away From Everywhere / Breakwater Books

Anna Quon / Migration Songs / Invisible Publishing

Jenny Sampirisi / Is/Was / Insomniac Press

Cordelia Strube / Lemon / Coach House Books

Darryl Whetter / The Push & The Pull / Goose Lane Editions

For more information on the contest, check out the National Post's website here.