Journey Prize
The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story published by an emerging writer in a Canadian literary magazine. The award was endowed by James A. Michener, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.[1]
The winner receives C$10,000, making it the largest monetary award given in Canada to an up-and-coming writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress.
The prize's winner in 2000, Timothy Taylor, was the first writer ever to have three stories nominated for the award in the same year.[2]
The Journey Prize also publishes an annual anthology of the year's longlisted short stories. Two writers, Andrew MacDonald and David Bergen, have both had a record four total stories selected for inclusion in the annual anthology.
Winners and nominees
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Holley Rubinsky | "Rapid Transits" | [3] |
| 1990 | Cynthia Flood | "My Father Took a Cake to France" | [4] |
| 1991 | Yann Martel | "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios" | [5] |
| Diana Hartog | "Theories of Grief" | [6] | |
| Diane Keating | "The Salem Letters" | [6] | |
| 1992 | Rozena Maart | "No Rosa, No District Six" | [7] |
| Steven Heighton | "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains" | [8] | |
| Diane Juttner Perreault | "Bella's Story" | [8] | |
| 1993 | Gayla Reid | "Sister Doyle's Men" | [9] |
| Marina Endicott | "With the Band" | [10] | |
| Carol Windley | "The Etruscans" | [10] | |
| 1994 | Melissa Hardy | "Long Man the River" | [11] |
| Anne Carson | "Water Margins" | [12] | |
| Robert Mullen | "Anomie" | [12] | |
| 1995 | Kathryn Woodward | "Of Marranos and Gilded Angels" | [13] |
| Gabriella Goliger | "Song of Ascent" | [14] | |
| Elizabeth Hay | "Hand Games" | [14] | |
| 1996 | Elyse Gasco | "Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?" | [15] |
| Danuta Gleed | "Bones" | [15] | |
| Rick Maddocks | "Lessons from the Sputnik Diner" | [15] | |
| 1997 | Gabriella Goliger | "Maladies of the Inner Ear" | [16] |
| Anne Simpson | "Dreaming Snow" | [16] | |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | "Speedboat" | [16] | |
| 1998 | John Brooke | "The Finer Points of Apples" | |
| 1999 | Alissa York | "The Back of the Bear’s Mouth" | |
| 2000 | Timothy Taylor | "Doves of Townsend" | [2] |
| 2001 | Kevin Armstrong | "The Cane Field" | |
| Vivette J. Kady | "Anything That Wiggles" | ||
| Heather O'Neill | "Little Suitcase" | ||
| 2002 | Jocelyn Brown | "Miss Canada" | |
| Geoffrey Brown | "Listen" | ||
| Neil Smith | "Green Fluorescent Protein" | ||
| 2003 | Jessica Grant | "My Husband’s Jump" | |
| Dawn Rae Downton | "Hansel and Gretel" | ||
| Charlotte Gill | "Hush" | ||
| 2004 | Devin Krukoff | "The Last Spark" | |
| Kenneth Bonert | "Packers and Movers" | ||
| Elaine McCluskey | "The Watermelon Social" | ||
| 2005 | Matt Shaw | "Matchbook for a Mother's Hair" | |
| Krista Bridge | "A Matter of Firsts" | ||
| Barbara Romanik | "Seven Ways to Chandigarh" | ||
| 2006 | Heather Birrell | "BriannaSusannaAlana" | |
| Lee Henderson | "Conjugation" | ||
| Martin West | "Cretacea" | ||
| 2007 | Craig Boyko | "Ozy" | |
| Krista Foss | "Swimming in Zanzibar" | ||
| Rebecca Rosenblum | "Chilly Girl" | ||
| 2008 | Saleema Nawaz | "My Three Girls" | |
| Dana Mills | "Steaming for Godthab" | ||
| Clea Young | "Chaperone" | ||
| 2009 | Yasuko Thanh | "Floating like the Dead" | |
| Daniel Griffin | "The Last Great Works of Alvin Cale" | ||
| Dave Margoshes | "The Wisdom of Solomon" | ||
| 2010 | Devon Code | "Uncle Oscar" | |
| Krista Foss | "The Longitude of Okay" | ||
| Lynne Kutsukake | "Mating" | ||
| 2011 | Miranda Hill | "Petitions to Saint Chronic" | |
| Seyward Goodhand | "The Fur Trader's Daughter" | ||
| Ross Klatte | "First-Calf Heifer" | ||
| 2012 | Alex Pugsley | "Crisis on Earth-X" | |
| Kevin Hardcastle | "To Have to Wait" | ||
| Andrew Hood | "Manning" | ||
| 2013 | Naben Ruthnum | "Cinema Rex" | |
| Doretta Lau | "How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?" | ||
| Eliza Robertson | "My Sister Sang" | ||
| 2014 | Tyler Keevil | "Sealskin" | [17] |
| Lori McNulty | "Monsoon Season" | [17] | |
| Clea Young | "Juvenile" | [17] | |
| 2015 | Deirdre Dore | "The Wise Baby" | [18] |
| Emily Bossé | "Last Animal Standing on Gentleman’s Farm" | [19] | |
| Anna Ling Kaye | "Red Egg and Ginger" | [19] | |
| 2016 | Colette Langlois | "The Emigrants" | [20] |
| Charlie Fiset | "If I Ever See the Sun" | ||
| J. R. McConvey | "How the Grizzly Came to Hang in the Royal Oak Hotel" | ||
| 2017 | Sharon Bala | "Butter Tea at Starbucks" | [21] |
| Darlene Naponse | "She Is Water" | [21] | |
| 2018 | Shashi Bhat | "Mute" | [22] |
| Greg Brown | "Love" | [23] | |
| Liz Harmer | "Never Prosper" | [23] | |
| 2019 | Angélique Lalonde | "Pooka" | [24] |
| Kai Conradi | "Every True Artist" | [25] | |
| Samantha Jude Macpherson | "The Fish and the Dragons" | [25] | |
| 2020 | Jessica Johns | "Bad Cree" | [26] |
| Lisa Foad | "Hunting" | [27] | |
| David Huebert | "Chemical Valley" | [27] |
References
- "Author donates literary prize". Calgary Herald, December 18, 1988.
- "The patter of little stories". Vancouver Sun, December 2, 2000.
- "Short story wins $10,000 for B.C. writer". Vancouver Sun, June 15, 1989.
- "Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, May 25, 1990.
- "Authors collect prizes of close to $80,000". Toronto Star, October 28, 1991.
- "Future winners". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 31, 1991.
- "Rebellious, defiant, resistant; Controversial feminist writer Rozena Maart wins $10,000 literary prize for short story". Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 1992.
- "McClelland and Stewart names shortlist for '92 Journey Prize". Montreal Gazette, September 12, 1992.
- "Burnaby author honored". Vancouver Sun, October 14, 1993.
- "Authors Shortlisted for Journey Prize". The Globe and Mail, September 22, 1993.
- "$50,000 writing prize goes to first Canadian". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 1994.
- "Journey Prize short list missing four names". Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1994.
- "Fetherling, Woodward honoured at festival". The Globe and Mail, October 12, 1995.
- "2 Ottawa writers among finalists for Journey prize". Ottawa Citizen, September 23, 1995.
- "Elyse Gasco wins Journey Prize with grim tale about child abuse". Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 1996.
- "Journey Prize ends in a tie". Edmonton Journal, October 24, 1997.
- "Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, November 4, 2014.
- "André Alexis wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2015.
- "Globe columnist among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize nominees". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2015.
- "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.
- "David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards". Quill & Quire, November 14, 2017.
- "Books inspired by the authors’ parents win the top Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 7, 2018.
- "The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces Journey Prize finalists". Quill & Quire, September 12, 2018.
- Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
- "Local writer up for $10,000 prize". Kelowna Daily Courier, September 17, 2019.
- "4 emerging Canadian writers receive $10K prizes from Writers' Trust of Canada". CBC Books, October 21, 2020.
- Ryan Porter, "Short fiction finalists announced for the 2020 Journey Prize". Quill & Quire, August 26, 2020.
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