In Other Words brings together the best prose writing in Quebec—all short pieces—from the winners and finalists of the last three years of the CBC–QWF Quebec Writing Competition. In 1999, Montreal’s CBC-Radio One and the Quebec Writers Federation established the CBC-QWF Short Story Competition. The winning stories are broadcast on CBC Radio’s Cinq à Six. The winning stories and finalists from the first three years of the competition were published in Telling Stories: New English Fiction from Quebec, followed three years later by Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec. In 2007 the competition was widened to include travel writing, short fiction, life stories, family narratives, humour and personal essays.