Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize
Selected Stories 1989-2023
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary, Short Stories (single author)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780771007439
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $35.00
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Description
A landmark special edition celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Journey Prize, bringing together a selection of the very best short stories featured in The Journey Prize Stories over the past three-and-a-half decades.
Since 1989, The Journey Prize Stories has introduced readers to generations of emerging Canadian literary voices, many of whom have gone on to become some of the country's most celebrated and beloved writers. To mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology, this special edition gathers the best stories from throughout the prize's history, as chosen by two modern masters of the short story form, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Alexander MacLeod, both previous contributors to the Journey Prize anthology.
Featuring an introduction by the editors, quotes from previous contributors, and stories by André Alexis, Michael Christie, Alicia Elliott, Jessica Grant, Kevin Hardcastle, Angélique Lalonde, Annabel Lyon, Thomas King, Téa Mutonji, Saleema Nawaz, Heather O'Neill, Eden Robinson, Naben Ruthnum, and Madeleine Thien, among others.
About the authors
Celia Barker Lottridge is a writer and storyteller who has written several highly acclaimed children's books, including Ticket to Curlew (winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award), Berta: A Remarkable Dog (nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award, Horn Book starred review) and Stories form the Life of Jesus (Publisher's Weekly starred review). She wrote Home Is Beyond the Mountains after hearing her mother's stories about growing up in Persia and after reading letter's written by Celia's aunt, Susan Shedd. Born in Iowa and raised in the United States, Celia now lives in Toronto.
Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. His award-winning stories have appeared in many of the leading Canadian and American journals and have been selected for The Journey Prize Anthology. He holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame, and McGill. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Nong Khai, Thailand, in 1978 and was raised and educated in Toronto. She won the 2004 ReLit prize for her first poetry book, Small Arguments. She is also the author of a second poetry book, Found, which was made into a short film and screened at film festivals worldwide, including Toronto International Film Festival and Dok Leipzig. Some of her poems were written while she was a resident at Yaddo. Poems have appeared in many of Canada’s literary journals and magazines, including Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, dANDelion, Event, The Fiddlehead and The Windsor Review. The poem “The Sun in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away” appeared in the anthology Troubling Borders: Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora published by the University of Washington Press in the United States. The poem “Perfect” was nominated for a National Magazine award. Thammavongsa was named one of “Best Under 35” writers in Canada in a special issue of The Windsor Review. She lives in Stouffville, Ontario.
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