{"product_id":"the-journey-prize-stories-15-isbn-9780771044106","title":"The Journey Prize Stories 15","description":"This is the fifteenth edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, retitled \u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e It has established itself as Canada’s most popular fiction anthology, presenting the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast. As well as receiving high praise every year, it is an important indicator of up-and-coming writers. Past winners include Yann Martel, Elyse Gasco, Cynthia Flood, Alissa York, Kevin Armstrong, and Timothy Taylor. These writers and many others whose stories have appeared in the anthology – such as André Alexis, David Bergen, Dennis Bock, Terry Griggs, Elizabeth Hay, Steven Heighton, Elise Levine, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Nancy Richler, Madeleine Thien, and M.G. Vassanji – have gone on to single themselves out with novels or collections, and have won many of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fiction anthology sets itself apart from others in that editors of literary journals across the country submit what, in their view, is the most exciting writing in English that they have published in the previous year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe winner of the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada\/McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart Journey Prize, and the journal which published the winning piece, will be announced in the spring of 2004 as part of The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Great Literary Awards event.Congratulations to the Journey Prize: ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: xvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS.K. Johannesen\u003cbr\u003eResurrection (from Descant)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Gill\u003cbr\u003eHush (from Grain Magazine)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeather O’Neill\u003cbr\u003eThe Difference Between Me and Goldstein (from Broken Pencil)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Mitchell\u003cbr\u003eNight Finds Us (from Event)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline Honnet\u003cbr\u003eConversion Classes(from filling Station)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Fleming\u003cbr\u003eGay Dwarves of America (from The New Quarterly)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Grant\u003cbr\u003eMy Husband’s Jump (from The Malahat Review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawn Rae Downton\u003cbr\u003eHansel and Gretel (from Grain Magazine)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilary Dean\u003cbr\u003eThe Lemon Stories (from This Magazine)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvner Mandelman\u003cbr\u003eCuckoo (from Parchment)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElyse Friedman\u003cbr\u003eTruth (from The Malahat Review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosaria Campbell\u003cbr\u003eReaching (from The Fiddlehead)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Authors\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributing Journals\u003cbr\u003eList of Previous Contributing Authors“\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e has become the proving ground for new, young Canadian writers, a who’s who of the coming generation. . . . There’s nothing else like it in Canada. (I, for one, owe everything to the Journey Prize.)” \u003cbr\u003e– Yann Martel, previous Journey Prize winner and the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Pi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e represents the haunting pulse of the country's literary heartbeat.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An adventurous collection of cut-above stories. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e] buttresses the widely held conviction that short fiction is alive and swelling the ranks of first-rate Canadian authors gathering accolades around the globe.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Consistently strong, and maintains the high standard for which it has become known.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this competition, the real winner is the reader.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eBooks in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even for a country used to superb short story writers like Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Mavis Gallant, this is impressive stuff.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have seen the future and it is fabulous.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is, without a doubt, the book I most look forward to each year.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Bert Archer, \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e offers a road map of our cultural avenues, with signs drawn up by writers as varied as the topography, economy, and customs that surround them.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e has become an important annual literary event in this country.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Diane Schoemperlen, \u003ci\u003eKingston Whig-Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A generous and timely acknowledgement of the importance of short fiction.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The craftsmanship of these writers is worthy of Munro or Gallant.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tight list of who to watch among a new generation of up-and-coming writers.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Montreal \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When you sip from this literary brew of some of the year's best short fiction produced in Canada, your senses are aroused for conjuring by your own imagination. . . . Selections that are equally distinct and equally entertaining, as good fiction should be. Readers will be rewarded.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Denise Chong, \u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe selection jury:\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short story collections \u003ci\u003eHow to Get There from Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMargaret Lives in the Basement\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Want\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlur\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eStanley Park\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize, and the fiction collection \u003ci\u003eSilent Cruise\u003c\/i\u003e. With two stories on the Journey Prize shortlist in 2000, Taylor won the award that year, and is the only writer to date to have three stories published in a single edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Journey Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Vancouver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Winter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eOne Last Good Look\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCreaking in Their Skins\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eThis All Happened\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Winterset Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. He divides his time between St. John’s and Toronto.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303263752421,"sku":"NP9780771044106","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771044106.jpg?v=1767740014","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-journey-prize-stories-15-isbn-9780771044106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}