The Journey Prize Stories 20 Format: Paperback

“Considering the number of popular and prize-winning writers who have a Journey Prize as part of their resume, it’s no exaggeration to suggest that this volume is the future of Canadian writing. . . . And the future seems bright indeed.” —Robert Wiersema, Ottawa Citizen

The Journey Prize Stories is widely celebrated as the premiere showcase for new writing in Canada, and a virtual who’s who of up-and-coming literary talents. Readers of the anthology have consistently been among the first to discover such now well-known writers as André Alexis, David Bergen, Michael Crummey, Elizabeth Hay, Yann Martel, Lisa Moore, Heather O’Neill, Eden Robinson, Neil Smith, Timothy Taylor, Madeleine Thien, M.G. Vassanji, and Alissa York, among many others. With this twentieth edition, featuring an introduction by the jury and comments from a stellar group of high-profile past contributors, The Journey Prize Stories continues to take the pulse of Canada’s literary scene.

The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $1,000 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

The Editors of The Journey Prize Stories 20:

LYNN COADY is the acclaimed author of Strange Heaven, Saints of Big Harbour, Mean Boy, The Antagonist, and Watching You Without Me, in addition to the fiction collections Play the Monster Blind and the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Hellgoing. She is also the editor of Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada. She lives in Toronto.

HEATHER O'NEILL’s Lullabies for Little Criminals won the CBC’s Canada Reads 2007 and the Hugh MacLennan Prize, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. A two-time nominee for The Journey Prize, O’Neill lives in Montreal.

NEIL SMITH is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo, published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection Bang Crunch, in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail, won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith also works as a translator, from French to English. The Goddess of Fireflies, his translation of Geneviève Pettersen's novel La déesse des mouches à feu, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for Translation.