by Various
Mike Spry is a writer and editor living in Montreal. His work has appeared in Matrix, This Magazine, Geist, and filling Station, among others. His collection of poetry, JACK (Snare Books, 2008), was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.
Damian Tarnopolsky is the author of Lanzmann and Other Stories, a widely praised collection of short fiction, and the novel Goya’s Dog, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and Caribbean region) and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His stories have been published in Maisonneuve, Exile, and subTerrain, and have been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and the ReLit Award. His story “Sleepy” appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology 18. He lives in Toronto with his family and is at work on two new novels.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING JOURNALS
For more information about all the journals that submitted stories to this year’s anthology, please consult The Journey Prize Stories website: www.mcclelland.com/jps.
The Dalhousie Review has been in operation since 1921 and aspires to be a forum in which seriousness of purpose and playfulness of mind can coexist in meaningful dialogue. The journal publishes new fiction and poetry in every issue and welcomes submissions from authors around the world. Editor: Anthony Stewart. Submissions and correspondence: The Dalhousie Review, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2. Email: [email protected] Website: www.dalhousiereview.dal.ca
EVENT is a celebrated literary journal showcasing new and established talent – in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and critical reviews. The journal thrives on a balance of both traditional narrative and contemporary approaches to poetry and prose. EVENT is home to Canada’s longest-running annual non-fiction contest. It is our goal to support and encourage a thriving literary community in Canada, while maintaining our international reputation for excellence. Editor: Elizabeth Bachinsky. Managing Editor: Ian Cockfield. Fiction Editor: Christine Dewar. Submissions and correspondence: EVENT, P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, British Columbia, V3L 5B2. Email (queries only): [email protected] Website: http://event.douglas.bc.ca
Exile: The Literary Quarterly is a distinctive journal that offers a rich and varied selection of new, emerging, and established writers of fiction, poetry, excerpts in translation, and drama, and features artists working in a wide range of mediums. With over one thousand contributions since 1972, Exile draws material from French and English Canada, as well as from the United States, Britain, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. Publisher: Michael Callaghan. Editor-in-Chief: Barry Callaghan. Submissions and correspondence: Exile/Excelsior Publishing Inc., 134 Eastbourne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5P 2G6. Email (queries only): [email protected] Website: www.exilequarterly.com
Grain Magazine, a literary quarterly, publishes engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Published by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Grain has earned national and international recognition for its distinctive content. Editor: Sylvia Legris. Submissions and correspondence: Grain Magazine, P.O. Box 67, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7K 3K1. Email: [email protected] Website: www.grainmagazine.ca
The Malahat Review is a quarterly journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction 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 Creative Non-Fiction Prize; and beginning in 2010, the spring issues will feature winners from the Open Season Awards in all three genres (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction). All issues feature covers by noted Canadian visual artists and include reviews of Canadian books. Editor: John Barton. Assistant Editor: Rhonda Batchelor. Submissions and correspondence: The Malahat Review, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Station csc, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2. Email: [email protected] Website: www.malahatreview.ca
PRISM international, the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada, was established in 1959 by a group of Vancouver writers. Published four times a year, PRISM features short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and translations by both new and established writers from Canada and around the world. The only criteria are originality and quality. PRISM holds four exemplary competitions: the Short Fiction Contest, the Literary Non-fiction Contest, the Poetry Contest, and the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry. Executive Editors: Ben Rawluk and Chris Urquhart. Fiction Editor: Jeff Stautz. Poetry Editor: andrea bennett. Submissions and correspondence: PRISM international, Creative Writing Program, The University of British Columbia, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1. Email (for queries only): [email protected] Website: www.prismmagazine.ca
subTerrain Magazine publishes contemporary and sometimes controversial Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and visual art. Every issue features interviews, timely commentary, and book reviews. Praised by both writers and readers for featuring work that might not find a home in more conservative periodicals, subTerrain seeks to expand the definition of Canadian literary and artistic culture by showcasing the best in progressive writing and ideas. Please visit our website for more information on upcoming theme issues, our annual Lush Triumphant contest, general submission guidelines, and subscription information. Submissions and correspondence: subTerrain Magazine, P.O. Box 3008, MPO, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 3×5. Website: www.subterrain.ca
For more than four decades, This Magazine has proudly published fiction and poetry from new and emerging Canadian writers. A sassy and thoughtful journal of arts, politics, and pop culture, This consistently offers fresh takes on familiar issues, as well as breaking stories that need to be told. Publisher: Lisa Whittington-Hill. Fiction & Poetry Editor: Stuart Ross. Correspondence: This Magazine, Suite 396 – 401 Richmond Ave. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8. Website: this.org
Vancouver Review is an iconoclastic, irreverent, and wholly independent cultural quarterly that celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2009. Vancouver Review focuses on B.C. cultural, social, and political issues, and publishes commentary, essays, and narrative non-fiction, as well as fiction and poetry in every issue. With its Blueprint B.C. Fiction Series, launched in the summer of 2007, it explores the zeitgeist and geographic implications of the province through illustrated stories by first-time and established authors. Editor: Gudrun Will. Fiction Editor: Zsuzsi Gartner. Poetry Editor: Caroline Harvey. Submissions and correspondence (email submissions preferred): Vancouver Review, 2828 West 13th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6K 2T7. Email: [email protected] Website: www.vancouverreview.com
Submissions were also received from the following journals:
The Antigonish Review
(Antigonish, N.S.)
www.antigonishreview.com
Ars Medica
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.utpjournals.com/ars/ars.html
Brick
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.brickmag.com
Broken Pencil
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.brokenpencil.com
carte blanche
(Westmount, Que.)
www.carte-blanche.org
The Claremont Review
(Victoria, B.C.)
www.theclaremontreview.ca
Descant
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.descant.ca
The Fiddlehead
(Fredericton, N.B.)
www.thefiddlehead.ca
FreeFall Magazine
(Calgary, Alta.)
www.freefallmagazine.ca
Geist
(Vancouver, B.C.)
www.geist.com
Joyland
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.joyland.ca
Matrix Magazine
(Montreal, Que.)
www.matrixmagazine.org
The New Orphic Review
www3.telus.net/neworphicpu
blishers-hekkanen
The New Quarterly
(Waterloo, Ont.)
www.tnq.ca
On Spec
(Edmonton, Alta.)
www.onspec.ca
Pilot Illustrated Magazine
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.thepilotproject.ca
Prairie Fire
(Winnipeg, Man.)
www.prairiefire.ca
The Prairie Journal
(Calgary, Alta.)
www.prairiejournal.org
Queen’s Quarterly
(Kingston, Ont.)
www.queensu.ca/quarterly
Riddle Fence
(St. John’s, NL)
www.riddlefence.com
Room Magazine
(Vancouver, B.C.)
www.roommagazine.com
Taddle Creek
(Toronto, Ont.)
www.taddlecreekmag.com
PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
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, “A Man Away from Home Has No Neighbours”
Steven Heighton, “How Beautiful upon the Mountains”
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”
K.D. Miller, “A Litany in Time of Plague”
Robert Mullen, “Flotsam”
Gayla Reid, “Sister Doyle’s Men”*
Oakland Ross, “Bang-bang”
Robert Sherrin, “Technical Battle for Trial Machine”
Carol Windley, “The Etruscans”
6
1994
SELECTED WITH DOUGLAS GLOVER;
JUDITH CHANT (CHAPTERS)
Anne Carson, “Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother”
Richard Cumyn, “The Sound He Made”
Genni Gunn, “Versions”
Melissa Hardy, “Long Man the River”*
Robert Mullen, “Anomie”
Vivian Payne, “Free Falls”
Jim Reil, “Dry”
Robyn Sarah, “Accept My Story”
Joan Skogan, “Landfall”
Dorothy Speak, “Relatives in Florida”
Alison Wearing, “Notes from Under Water”
7
1995
SELECTED WITH M.G. VASSANJI;
RICHARD BACHMANN (A DIFFERENT DRUMMER BOOKS)
Michelle Alfano, “Opera”
Mary Borsky, “Maps of the Known World”
Gabriella Goliger, “Song of Ascent”
Elizabeth Hay, “Hand Games”
Shaena Lambert, “The Falling Woman”
Elise Levine, “Boy”
Roger Burford Mason, “The Rat-Catcher’s Kiss”
Antanas Sileika, “Going Native”
Kathryn Woodward, “Of Marranos and Gilded Angels”*
8
1996
SELECTED WITH OLIVE SENIOR; BEN MCNALLY (NICHOLAS HOARE LTD.)
Rick Bowers, “Dental Bytes”
David Elias, “How I Crossed Over”
Elyse Gasco, “Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?”*
Danuta Gleed, “Bones”
Elizabeth Hay, “The Friend”
Linda Holeman, “Turning the Worm”
Elaine Littman, “The Winner’s Circle”
Murray Logan, “Steam”
Rick Maddocks, “Lessons from the Sputnik Diner”
K.D. Miller, “Egypt Land”
Gregor Robinson, “Monster Gaps”
Alma Subasic, “Dust”
9
1997
SELECTED WITH NINO RICCI; NICHOLAS PASHLEY
(UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BOOKSTORE)
Brian Bartlett, “Thomas, Naked”
Dennis Bock, “Olympia”
Kristen den Hartog, “Wave”
Gabriella Goliger, “Maladies of the Inner Ear”*
Terry Griggs, “Momma Had a Baby”
Mark Anthony Jarman, “Righteous Speedboat”
Judith Kalman, “Not for Me a Crown of Thorns”
Andrew Mullins, “The World of Science”
Sasenarine Persaud, “Canada Geese and Apple Chatney”
Anne Simpson, “Dreaming Snow”*
Sarah Withrow, “Ollie”
Terence Young, “The Berlin Wall”
10
1998
SELECTED BY PETER BUITENHUIS; HOLLEY RUBINSKY;
CELIA DUTHIE (DUTHIE BOOKS LTD.)
John Brooke, “The Finer Points of Apples�
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Ian Colford, “The Reason for the Dream”
Libby Creelman, “Cruelty”
Michael Crummey, “Serendipity”
Stephen Guppy, “Downwind”
Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Graduation”
Elise Levine, “You Are You Because Your Little Dog Loves You”
Jean McNeil, “Bethlehem”
Liz Moore, “Eight-Day Clock”
Edward O’Connor, “The Beatrice of Victoria College”
Tim Rogers, “Scars and Other Presents”
Denise Ryan, “Marginals, Vivisections, and Dreams”
Madeleine Thien, “Simple Recipes”
Cheryl Tibbetts, “Flowers of Africville”
11
1999
SELECTED BY LESLEY CHOYCE; SHELDON CURRIE;
MARY-JO ANDERSON (FROG HOLLOW BOOKS)
Mike Barnes, “In Florida”
Libby Creelman, “Sunken Island”
Mike Finigan, “Passion Sunday”
Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Territory”
Mark Anthony Jarman, “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World”
Barbara Lambert, “Where the Bodies Are Kept”
Linda Little, “The Still”
Larry Lynch, “The Sitter”
Sandra Sabatini, “The One With the News”
Sharon Steams, “Brothers”
Mary Walters, “Show Jumping”
Alissa York, “The Back of the Bear’s Mouth”*
12
2000
SELECTED BY CATHERINE BUSH; HAL NIEDZVIECKI;
MARC GLASSMAN (PAGES BOOKS AND MAGAZINES)
Andrew Gray, “The Heart of the Land”
Lee Henderson, “Sheep Dub”
Jessica Johnson, “We Move Slowly”
John Lavery, “The Premier’s New Pyjamas”
J.A. McCormack, “Hearsay”