Alexander MacLeod - The Journey Prize Stories 23

1989
Holley Rubinsky for
Rapid Transits

1990
Cynthia Flood for My Father
Took a Cake to France

1991
Yann Martel for The Facts
Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

1992
Rozena Maart for No Rosa,
No District Six

1993
Gayla Reid for
Sister Doyles Men

1994
Melissa Hardy for
Long Man the River

1995
Kathryn Woodward for Of
Marranos and Gilded Angels

1996
Elyse Gasco for Can You Wave
Bye Bye, Baby?

1997 (shared)
Gabriella Goliger for
Maladies of the Inner Ear

Anne Simpson for
Dreaming Snow

1998
John Brooke for
The Finer Points of Apples

1999
Alissa York for The Back of the
Bears Mouth

2000
Timothy Taylor for
Doves of Townsend

2001
Kevin Armstrong for
The Cane Field

2002
Jocelyn Brown for
Miss Canada

2003
Jessica Grant for
My Husbands Jump

2004
Devin Krukoff for
The Last Spark

2005
Matt Shaw for Matchbook for a
Mothers Hair

2006
Heather Birrell for
BriannaSusannaAlana

2007
Craig Boyko for
OZY

2008
Saleema Nawaz for
My Three Girls

2009
Yasuko Thanh for
Floating Like the Dead

2010
Devon Code for
Uncle Oscar

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The $10,000 Journey Prize is awarded annually to an emerging writer of distinction. This award, now in its twenty-third year, and given for the eleventh time in association with the Writers Trust of Canada as the Writers Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, is made possible by James A. Micheners generous donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his novel Journey, published by McClelland & Stewart in 1988. The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a developing writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress. The winner of this years Journey Prize will be selected from among the ten stories in this book.

The Journey Prize Stories has established itself as the most prestigious annual fiction anthology in the country, introducing readers to the finest new literary writers from coast to coast for more than two decades. It has become a whos who of up-and-coming writers, and many of the authors who have appeared in the anthologys pages have gone on to distinguish themselves with collections of short stories, novels, and literary awards. The anthology comprises a selection from submissions made by the editors of literary journals from across the country, who have chosen what, in their view, is the most exciting writing in English that they have published in the previous year. In recognition of the vital role journals play in fostering literary voices, McClelland & Stewart makes its own award of $2,000 to the journal that originally published and submitted the winning entry.

This year the selection jury comprised three acclaimed writers:

Alexander MacLeods debut collection, Light Lifting, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, two Atlantic Book Awards, a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award. A previous contributor to The Journey Prize Stories, Alexander holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame, and McGill University. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Marys University in Halifax.

Alison Pick is the author of two novels, The Sweet Edge and Far to Go, winner of the 2010 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and two books of poetry. She was the winner of the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry and the 2002 Bronwen Wallace for most promising writer under the age of thirty-five. Currently on Faculty at the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program, she lives with her family in Toronto. For more information, please visit www.alisonpick.com.

Sarah Seleckys debut collection, This Cake Is for the Party, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and longlisted for the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award. A previous contributor to The Journey Prize Stories, Sarah earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and has been teaching creative writing in her living room for the past ten years. She lives in Toronto. For more information, please visit www.sarahselecky.ca.

The jury read a total of eighty-five submissions without knowing the names of the authors or those of the journals in which the stories originally appeared. McClelland & Stewart would like to thank the jury for their efforts in selecting this years anthology and, ultimately, the winner of this years Journey Prize.

McClelland & Stewart would also like to acknowledge the continuing enthusiastic support of writers, literary journal editors, and the public in the common celebration of new voices in Canadian fiction.

For more information about The Journey Prize Stories, please consult our website: www.mcclelland.com/jps.

Introduction
Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick,
and Sarah Selecky