The Short Story Advent Calendar returns, not a moment too soon, to spice up your holidays with another collection of 24 stories that readers open one by one on the mornings leading up to Christmas. This year's stories once again come from some of your favourite writers across the continent—plus a couple of new crushes you haven't met yet. Most of the stories have never appeared in a book before. Some have never been published, period. The 2016 Short Story Advent Calendar includes stories from:

• Anakana Schofield (Martin John)
• Daniel Handler (Adverbs, Lemony Snicket)
• Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be?)
• Charles Demers (Vancouver Special, CBC's The Debaters)
• Katie Coyle (Vivian Apple at the End of the World)
• plus [redacted x 19]! Like last year, the calendar is available in a one-time print run, which means that once it's gone, it's gone forever. Each chapbook is sealed, so you won't know what story you're getting until the morning you open it. The collection also includes a gorgeous full-colour slipcase—the better to be displayed on your shelves, or those of someone you love, for years to come.