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About The Journey Prize Anthology 14
Now in its fourteenth year, and given for the second time in association
with the Writers' Trust of Canada as the Writers' Trust of
Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, this $10,000 prize is
awarded annually to a new and developing writer of distinction. The
winner of this year's Journey Prize will be selected from among the
twelve stories included in the fourteenth volume of The Journey Prize
Anthology, which will be available in stores in November 2002. The
winner will be announced by the Writers' Trust of Canada in Toronto in
the spring of 2003.
This year's three-person jury comprises André Alexis, Derek McCormack,
and Diane Schoemperlen.
The stories included in The Journey Prize Anthology 14 are:
"Cogagwee" by Mike Barnes (The New Quarterly)
"Listen" by Geoffrey Brown (Broken Pencil)
"Miss Canada" by Jocelyn Brown (This Magazine)
"What Remains" by Emma Donoghue (Queen's Quarterly)
"You Are A Spaceman With Your Head Under the Bathroom Stall Door" by
Jonathan Goldstein (Exile)
"Confidence Men" by Robert McGill (The Fiddlehead)
"The Stars Are Falling" by Robert McGill (Descant)
"Philemon" by Nick Melling (Claremont Review)
"Alex the God" by Robert Mullen (The Malahat Review)
"The Pool" by Karen Munro (Grain)
"Being Famous" by Leah Postman (The Malahat Review)
"Green Fluorescent Protein" by Neil Smith (Event)
Among the stories this year: Infighting, blatant favouritism, and
judging irregularities mar a living-room beauty pageant as four sisters,
including Miss Miracle Whip and Miss Velveeta, vie for the title of Miss
Canada. In a linguistically hypnotic piece - "I keep changing. I can't
decide. I change. I decide. I can't decide" - a man navigates the chaos
of everyday life. A teenage girl tries to protect her twin cousins from
the memory of a terrible act of violence. Two sculptors and lifelong
friends embark from the Toronto nursing home where they now live to
visit the memorial sculpture one of the women has forgotten she
completed thirty years earlier. The unexpected beauty of a genetically
altered, glow-in-the-dark guinea pig helps a teenage boy in Montreal to
come to terms with an evolving relationship with his best friend. A
series of unexpected phone calls incites a wave of insurgency among the
women who work in the typing pool at United Office Systems Incorporated.
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Winner Selected
Toronto, Ontario (Friday, March 7, 2003)
On March 6, 2003, The Writers' Trust of Canada announced the winners of
seven national literary prizes totalling more than $80,000. Held at
Toronto's Arts and Letters Club, the recipients were honoured at the
second annual Great Literary Awards, one of the richest award galas in
the country. Among the seven prestigious prizes awarded, the $10,000
Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize was
presented to Edmonton writer Jocelyn Brown for her story "Miss Canada,"
published by Toronto-based This Magazine. In recognition of the vital
role literary journals play in discovering new writers, $2,000 was also
presented to editors Julie Crysler and Alana Wilcox from This Magazine.
Of the winning story, jury members André Alexis, Derek McCormack,
and Diane Schoemperlen had this to say:
"The power of Jocelyn Brown's "Miss Canada" lies primarily in the
headlong rush of voice, detail, and dark humour. Miss Miracle Whip, Miss
Velveeta, Miss Cherry Blossom, and Miss Petit Dejeuner are put through
their paces without a single false step in a seamless blending of
dialogue and narrative that leaves the reader short of breath."
Now in its fourteenth year, and given for the second time in association
with The Writers' Trust of Canada as the Writers' Trust of
Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, the prize is awarded annually
to a new and developing writer of distinction for a short story or
excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress published in a Canadian literary
journal. It is made possible by Canadian royalty earnings from James A.
Michener's 1988 novel, Journey.
The winner of the Journey Prize was selected from a shortlist of twelve
stories published as The Journey Prize Anthology 14: Short Fiction From
the Best of Canada's New Writers. The winner and the finalists for the
Journey Prize, as well as the stories included in the anthology, were
selected by writers André Alexis, Derek McCormack, and Diane
Schoemperlen from a pool of eighty-two stories submitted by journals
from across the country.
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Finalists Selected
Toronto, Ontario (Tuesday, February 11, 2003)
The Writers' Trust of Canada announced today finalists for the second
annual Great Literary Awards to be presented on Thursday, March 6 at The
Arts & Letters Club in Toronto. Among these were the finalists for the
2002 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Now in
its fourteenth year, and given for the second time in association with
The Writers' Trust of Canada as the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland
& Stewart Journey Prize, the prize is awarded annually to a new and
developing writer of distinction for a short story or excerpt from a
fiction work-in-progress published in a Canadian literary journal. It is
made possible by Canadian royalty earnings from James A. Michener's 1988
novel, Journey.
The finalists for the 2002 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart
Journey Prize are:
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Geoffrey Brown (Ottawa, Ontario) for "Listen"
Published in Broken Pencil (Toronto, Ontario)
In a linguistically hypnotic piece - "I keep changing. I can't decide. I
change. I decide. I can't decide" - a man navigates the chaos of
everyday life.
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Jocelyn Brown (Edmonton, Alberta) for "Miss Canada"
Published in This Magazine (Toronto, Ontario)
Infighting, blatant favouritism, and judging irregularities mar a
living-room beauty pageant as four sisters, including Miss Miracle Whip and Miss
Velveeta, vie for the title of Miss Canada
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Neil Smith (Montreal, QC) for "Green Fluorescent Protein"
Published in Event (New Westminster, B.C.)
The unexpected beauty of a genetically altered, glow-in-the-dark guinea
pig helps a teenage boy in Montreal to come to terms with an evolving
relationship with his best friend.
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The finalists were selected from a longlist of twelve stories published
as The Journey Prize Anthology 14: Short Fiction From the Best of
Canada's New Writers. The finalists and the stories included in the
anthology were selected by writers André Alexis, Derek McCormack, and
Diane Schoemperlen from a pool of eighty-two stories submitted by
journals from across the country.
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Keep checking this site for the latest news on the Journey Prize and The
Journey Prize Stories.
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