The Journey Prize Stories ─ The Best of Canada's New Writers

The 29th edition of the celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories series, The Journey Prize Stories is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. But what makes it unique is its commitment to showcasing the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new and emerging writers. For almost 30 years, the anthology has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian authors, a tradition that proudly continues with this latest edition.
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 2017 winner will be announced by the Writers' Trust of Canada in November 2017.

KEVIN HARDCASTLE is a fiction writer from Simcoe County, Ontario. He is the author of the novel In the Cage and the short story collection Debris, which won the Trillium Book Award, was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. His short fiction has been widely published in Canada and the United States, in journals such as The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Puritan, EVENT, and Shenandoah. His work has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories 24 & 26, Best Canadian Stories 15, and Internazionale. He lives and works in Toronto.

GRACE O'CONNELL is the author of the national bestseller Magnified World, the 2014 winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and the forthcoming Be Ready for the Lightning. She holds an MFA in creative writing, and her work has appeared in various publications including The Walrus, Taddle Creek, the Globe and Mail, National Post, and Elle Canada. She has taught creative writing at the University of Toronto and now works as a senior editor at Open Book Toronto and writes a books column for This Magazine.

AYELET TSABARI was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was long listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, and has been published internationally to great acclaim. Excerpts from her forthcoming book have won a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award. She lives in Toronto. The author lives in Toronto, ON.