“Discover your next favourite writer…. There’s plenty of homegrown talent to admire here.” — Chatelaine


For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting emerging writers.

In a vividly evoked story set in the offices of a Jewish newspaper in 1920s Cleveland, the unassuming writer behind a successful advice column discovers just how difficult it can be to navigate matters of the heart. A dwindling group of Chinese-Canadian lepers spend their final days fighting for survival and dreaming of escape after they are exiled to a remote island at the turn of the twentieth century. In what might prove to be the most important race of their careers, two competitive runners put everything on the line in the hopes of achieving the “miracle mile.” After the strange facts surrounding a girl’s disappearance from a small Japanese town decades earlier come to light, one of her former classmates recalls their charged but confusing last encounter. When an aging painter visits his estranged son, a gifted artist now gravely ill, old rivalries are reignited in a seductive story of art, love, desire, and betrayal.

The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The winner will be announced in fall 2009.

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“It is astounding to see how many writers published in The Journey Prize Stories over the last twenty years have gone on to publish great story collections and novels. The anthology is a windfall for both writer and reader.”
— David Bergen

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For more information about The Journey Prize, visit www.mcclelland.com/jps

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Introduction
Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson, and Rebecca Rosenblum
 
ADRIAN MICHAEL KELLY
Lure
(from Prairie Fire)
 
LYNNE KUTSUKAKE
Away
(from Grain Magazine)
 
JESUS HARDWELL
Easy Living
(from Exile: The Literary Quarterly)
 
PAUL HEADRICK
Highlife
(from Event)
 
DAVE MARGOSHES
The Wisdom of Solomon
(from The Dalhousie Review)
 
ALEXANDER MACLEOD
Miracle Mile
(from The New Quarterly)
 
YASUKO THANH
Floating Like the Dead
(from Vancouver Review)
 
SARAH L. TAGGART
Deaf
(from The Malahat Review)
 
SARAH KEEVIL
Pyro
(from Event)
 
SHAWN SYMS
On the Line
(from PRISM international)
 
FRAN KIMMEL
Picturing God's Ocean
(from Grain Magazine)
 
DANIEL GRIFFIN
The Last Great Works of Alvin Cale
(from The Dalhousie Review)
 
 
About the Authors
About the Contributing Journals
Previous Contributing Authors

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Camilla Gibb is the award-winning author of three novels, most recently Sweetness in the Belly. She divides her time between Toronto and London, England.

Lee Henderson is the author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game. A two-time nominee for the Journey Prize, he lives in Vancouver.

Rebecca Rosenblum is the much-talked-about first-time author of Once. A finalist for the Journey Prize in 2007, she lives in Toronto.

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