by Sharon Bala
Since retiring from a career in education, Aviva Dale Martin has returned to writing stories and creative nonfiction. She also takes advantage of this privileged and unique time in her life for dancing, ocean swimming, and cavorting with her brilliant grandchildren. In addition to the publication of “Barcelona” in PRISM international, 2017 saw the appearance of her creative nonfiction story, “Manuela,” in the Ouen Press anthology Journey Through Uncertainty and Other Short Stories. It also received a commendation in their CFN contest in 2016. Aviva lives with Bob, her partner of fifty-one years, in southern, coastal British Columbia, and is currently working on a collection of short stories and a memoir.
Rowan McCandless is a storyteller, thrift store enthusiast, and chai tea lover, who writes from Manitoba’s Treaty 1 territory. In 2017, her lyric essay “A Map of the World” won Room’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, and she was longlisted for PRISM international’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. She placed second in Prairie Fire’s 2016 Fiction Contest and Room’s 2015 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Skin Deep: Race and Culture magazine and is forthcoming in the anthology Black Writing Matters: Reflections on Contemporary Canadian Life. She continues to publish short fiction and creative nonfiction, and is at work on a novel.
Sofia Mostaghimi is a fiction writer. Her stories have appeared in anthologies, online journals, and print magazines in Canada, the U.S., and Hong Kong. She is also a fiction editor and high school teacher, working in Toronto, Ontario. Of Iranian and Québécois descent, she was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and is currently working on a novel, Desperada, which builds on the story that appears in this anthology.
Jess Taylor is a Toronto writer and poet. She founded The Emerging Writers Reading Series in 2012. Pauls, her first collection of stories, was published by Book*hug in 2015. The title story from the collection, “Paul,” received the Gold for Fiction at the 2013 National Magazine Awards. Jess has also released two chapbooks of poetry, And Then Everyone: Poems of the West End (Picture Window Press, 2014) and Never Stop (Anstruther Press, 2014). Jess’ next collection of stories, Just Pervs, will be published by Book*hug in 2019. She’s currently working on a novel and continuation of her life poem, Never Stop.
Iryn Tushabe was born near Kibale Forest in southwestern Uganda, and currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine and was longlisted for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Her short fiction had been anthologized in the CVC7: Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, she’s currently completing her debut novel, which is set in contemporary rural and urban Uganda.
Carly Vandergriendt left her hometown in Southern Ontario for Montreal in her early twenties, after stints in New Zealand, India, and Mexico. She recently completed a collection of stories set in Montreal, and is now at work on a novel about an environmental activist-turned-fugitive. Her story “The Crossing” won the Humber Literary Review‘s Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, and her writing has been published in Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, CVC7, Room, and elsewhere. Carly holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and works as an English/ESL teacher.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING PUBLICATIONS
For more information about the publications that submitted to this year’s competition, The Journey Prize, and The Journey Prize Stories, please visit www.facebook.com/TheJourneyPrize.
CVC Anthology Series is an annual publication from Exile Editions that presents the shortlist and winners from the $15,000 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition, which is open to all Canadian writers, with two prizes awarded: $10,000 for the best story by an emerging writer, and $5,000 for the best story by a writer at any point of her/his career. The CVC competition runs November through June, is administered by Exile Quarterly (a literary/visual arts magazine that has also had writers selected to appear in the Journey Prize anthology, including one winner), and is sponsored by U.S. philanthropist Gloria Vanderbilt, who awards the prizes in memory of her son Carter V. Cooper (the deceased brother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper). Website: ExileEditions.com
The Dalhousie Review is an award-winning literary journal published triannually by Dalhousie University. Now in its ninety-eighth year, it features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews by both established and emerging writers in Canada and from around the world as well as reviews of recent books, films, albums, and performances. Past contributors include some of Canada’s most celebrated writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Alfred Bailey, Earle Birney, Elizabeth Brewster, Charles Bruce, George Elliott Clarke, Fred Cogswell, Laurence Dakin, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, Kenneth Leslie, Malcolm Lowry, Hugh MacLennan, Alistair MacLeod, Alden Nowlan, A. J. M. Smith, Alice Mackenzie Swaim, W.D. Valgardson, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Miriam Waddington. Editor: Anthony Enns. Production Manager: Lynne Evans. Correspondence: The Dalhousie Review, c/o Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2. For subscription and submission guidelines, please contact the Production Manager at Dalhousie. [email protected] or visit our website at dalhousiereview.dal.ca.
EVENT has inspired and nurtured writers for almost five decades. Featuring the very best in contemporary writing from Canada and abroad, EVENT consistently publishes award-winning fiction, poetry, nonfiction, notes on writing, and critical reviews—all topped off by stunning Canadian cover art and illustrations. Stories first published in EVENT regularly appear in the Best Canadian Stories and Journey Prize Stories anthologies, are finalists at the National Magazine Awards, and recently won the Grand Prix Best Literature and Art Story at the 2017 Canadian Magazine Awards. EVENT is also home to Canada’s longest-running nonfiction contest (fall deadline), and its Reading Service for Writers. Editor: Shashi Bhat. Managing Editor: Ian Cockfield. Fiction Editor: Christine Dewar. Correspondence: EVENT, P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, British Columbia, V3L 5B2. Email (queries only): [email protected] Website: www.eventmagazine.ca
The Malahat Review is a quarterly journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by both new and celebrated writers. Summer issues feature the winners of Malahat‘s Novella and Long Poem prizes, held in alternate years; the fall issues feature the winners of the Far Horizons Award for emerging writers, alternating between poetry and fiction each year; the winter issues feature the winners of the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize; and the spring issues feature winners of the Open Season Awards in all three genres (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction). All issues feature covers by noted Canadian visual artists and include reviews of Canadian books. Interim Editor: Micaela Maftei. Assistant Editor: Rhonda Batchelor. Correspondence: The Malahat Review, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Station CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2. Unsolicited submissions are accepted through Submittable only; contest entries, by email (review contest guidelines before entering). E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.malahatreview.ca Twitter: @malahatreview
The New Quarterly is an award-winning literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, personal essays, interviews, and essays on writing. Founded in 1981, the magazine prides itself on its independent take on the Canadian literary scene. Recent issues include a celebration of diverse voices and one guest-edited by Anna Ling Kaye, with more exciting projects in the works. Editor: Pamela Mulloy. Submissions and correspondence: The New Quarterly, c/o St. Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G3. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Website: www.tnq.ca
Prairie Fire is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes poetry and prose by emerging and established writers. Our summer issue features the winners of our annual poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction contests. In celebration of our fortieth anniversary, the 2018 summer issue will also include new work by writers published in Prairie Fire‘s formative years, such as Sandra Birdsell and Margaret Sweatman, along with a section featuring Winnipeg writers never before published in PF. This fall, Prairie Fire is publishing a joint issue with Contemporary Verse 2, edited by Warren
Cariou and Katherena Vermette, which will highlight Indigenous writers from across the country. Our winter issue includes the Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered this year by Alice Major. Fiction Editors: Lindsey Childs, Melissa Steele, and Andris Taskans. Submissions, correspondence, and contest entries: Prairie Fire, 423–100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H3. Email: [email protected] Website: www.prairiefire.ca Facebook: @PrairieFireMagazine Twitter: @PrairieFireMag Instagram: @prairiefiremag
PRISM international, the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada, was established in 1959 by Earle Birney at the University of British Columbia. Published four times a year, PRISM features short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, hybrid forms, and translations. PRISM editors select work based on originality and quality, and the magazine showcases work from both new and established writers from Canada and around the world. PRISM holds four exemplary annual competitions for short fiction, literary nonfiction, very short forms, and poetry, and awards the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry to an outstanding poet whose work was featured in PRISM in the preceding year. Executive Editors: Selina Boan and Jessica Johns. Prose Editor: Kyla Jamieson. Poetry Editor: Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Submissions and correspondence: PRISM international, Creative Writing Program, The University of British Columbia, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1. Website: www.prismmagazine.ca
PULP Literature is a Canadian multi-genre fiction magazine, printing a spectrum of high-end yet accessible stories and poetry, including fantasy, mystery, science fiction, literary, humour, novel excerpts, and short comics. Launched in 2013 through a Kickstarter campaign, the quarterly magazine prides itself on community involvement in the BC Lower Mainland. The press runs four annual literary contests for short fiction and poetry: The Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest, The Magpie Award for Poetry, The Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize, and the Raven Short Story Contest. Founding Editors: Jennifer Landels, Susan Pieters, and Mel Anastasiou. Email: [email protected] Website: www.pulpliterature.com
For more than five decades, This Magazine has proudly published fiction and poetry from new and emerging Canadian writers. A sassy and thoughtful journal of arts, politics, and progressive ideas, This consistently offers fresh takes on familiar issues, as well as breaking stories that need to be told. Publisher: Lisa Whittington-Hill. Fiction Editor: Andrew Battershill. Submissions and correspondence: This Magazine, Suite 417, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8. Website: www.this.org
Submissions were also received from the following publications:
Agnes and True
(Toronto, ON)
www.agnesandtrue.com
Breaking Boundaries:
LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada
www.rebelmountainpress.com
carte blanche
(Montreal, QC)
www.carte-blanche.org
CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries
(Windsor, ON)
www.notesandqueries.ca
Cosmonauts Avenue
(Quebec City, QC)
www.cosmonautsavenue.com
The Danforth Review
(Toronto, ON)
www.danforthreview.com
Don’t Talk to Me About Love
(Toronto, ON)
www.donttalktomeaboutlove.org
The Double World
(Toronto, ON)
www.inkwellworkshops.com
The Fiddlehead
(Fredericton, NB)
www.thefiddlehead.ca
FreeFall
(Calgary, AB)
www.freefallmagazine.ca
Glass Buffalo
(Edmonton, AB)
www.glassbuffalo.com
Grain
(Saskatoon, SK)
www.grainmagazine.ca
The Humber Literary Review
(Toronto, ON)
www.humberliteraryreview.com
Joyland Magazine
www.joylandmagazine.com
Little Fiction | Big Truths
(Toronto, ON)
www.littlefiction.com
Looseleaf Magazine
(Toronto, ON)
www.looseleafmagazine.ca
Maisonneuve
(Montreal, QC)
www.maisonneuve.org
Maple Tree Literary Supplement
(Montreal, QC)
www.mtls.ca
The New Orphic Review
(Nelson, BC)
On Spec
(Edmonton, AB)
www.onspec.ca
Plenitude Magazine
(Victoria, BC)
www.plenitudemagazine.ca
Prairie Fire
(Winnipeg, MB)
www.prairiefire.ca
The Prairie Journal
(Calgary, AB)
www.prairiejournal.org
The Puritan
(Toronto, ON)
www.puritanmagazine.com
Queen’s Quarterly
(Kingston, ON)
www.queensu.ca/quarterly
Ricepaper Magazine
(Vancouver, BC)
www.ricepapermagazine.ca
Riddle Fence
(St. John’s, NL)
www.riddlefence.com
Room Magazine
(Vancouver, BC)
www.roommagazine.com
The Rusty Toque
(London, ON)
www.therustytoque.com
subTerrain Magazine
(Vancouver, BC)
www.subterrain.ca
Taddle Creek
(Toronto, ON)
www.taddlecreekmag.com
The Walrus
(Toronto, ON)
www.thewalrus.ca
untethered
(Toronto, ON)
www.alwaysuntethered.com
PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
* Winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
** Co-winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
1
1989
SELECTED WITH ALISTAIR MACLEOD
Ven Begamudré, “Word Games”
David Bergen, “Where You’re From”
Lois Braun, “The Pumpkin-Eaters”
Constance Buchanan, “Man with Flying Genitals”
Ann Copeland, “Obedience”
Marion Douglas, “Flags”
Frances Itani, “An Evening in the Café”
Diane Keating, “The Crying Out”
Thomas King, “One Good Story, That One”
Holley Rubinsky, “Rapid Transits”*
Jean Rysstad, “Winter Baby”
Kevin Van Tighem, “Whoopers”
M.G. Vassanji, “In the Quiet of a Sunday Afternoon”
Bronwen Wallace, “Chicken ’N’ Ribs”
Armin Wiebe, “Mouse Lake”
Budge Wilson, “Waiting”
2
1990
SELECTED WITH LEON ROOKE; GUY VANDERHAEGHE
André Alexis, “Despair: Five Stories of Ottawa”
Glen Allen, “The Hua Guofeng Memorial Warehouse”
Marusia Bociurkiw, “Mama, Donya”
Virgil Burnett, “Billfrith the Dreamer”
Margaret Dyment, “Sacred Trust”
Cynthia Flood, “My Father Took a Cake to France”*
Douglas Glover, “Story Carved in Stone”
Terry Griggs, “Man with the Axe”
Rick Hillis, “Limbo River”
Thomas King, “The Dog I Wish I Had, I Would Call It Helen”
K.D. Miller, “Sunrise Till Dark”
Jennifer Mitton, “Let Them Say”
Lawrence O’Toole, “Goin’ to Town with Katie Ann”
Kenneth Radu, “A Change of Heart”
Jenifer Sutherland, “Table Talk”
Wayne Tefs, “Red Rock and After”
3
1991
SELECTED WITH JANE URQUHART
Donald Aker, “The Invitation”
Anton Baer, �
��Yukon”
Allan Barr, “A Visit from Lloyd”
David Bergen, “The Fall”
Rai Berzins, “Common Sense”
Diana Hartog, “Theories of Grief”
Diane Keating, “The Salem Letters”
Yann Martel, “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”*
Jennifer Mitton, “Polaroid”
Sheldon Oberman, “This Business with Elijah”
Lynn Podgurny, “Till Tomorrow, Maple Leaf Mills”
James Riseborough, “She Is Not His Mother”
Patricia Stone, “Living on the Lake”
4
1992
SELECTED WITH SANDRA BIRDSELL
David Bergen, “The Bottom of the Glass”
Maria A. Billion, “No Miracles Sweet Jesus”
Judith Cowan, “By the Big River”
Steven Heighton, “How Beautiful upon the Mountains”
Steven Heighton, “A Man Away from Home Has No Neighbours”
L. Rex Kay, “Travelling”
Rozena Maart, “No Rosa, No District Six”*
Guy Malet De Carteret, “Rainy Day”
Carmelita McGrath, “Silence”
Michael Mirolla, “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence”
Diane Juttner Perreault, “Bella’s Story”
Eden Robinson, “Traplines”
5
1993
SELECTED WITH GUY VANDERHAEGHE
Caroline Adderson, “Oil and Dread”
David Bergen, “La Rue Prevette”
Marina Endicott, “With the Band”
Dayv James-French, “Cervine”
Michael Kenyon, “Durable Tumblers”