The Journey Prize: Stories

Discover some of Canada’s best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada’s most exciting new writers. Previous contributors – including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O'Neill, Pasha Malla, Timothy Taylor, M.G. Vassanji, and Alissa York – have gone on to win prestigious literary awards and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads competition. The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Journey Prize, which is made possible by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener’s donation of Canadian royalties from his novel Journey. The winner will be announced in fall 2011.