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The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short stories published by an emerging writer in a Canadian literary magazine. The award was endowed by James A. Michener, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.<ref>"Author donates literary prize". Calgary Herald, December 18, 1988.</ref>
From the award's inception until 2023, a single story was named the winner and received Template:Currency, making it the largest monetary award given in Canada to an up-and-coming writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress. Since 2023, the award no longer select a single prize winners, and instead all of the 10 writers whose stories are selected for inclusion in the anthology are considered equal winners of the award and receive $1,000 each in prize money.
The prize's winner in 2000, Timothy Taylor, was the first writer ever to have three stories nominated for the award in the same year.<ref name=patter>"The patter of little stories". Vancouver Sun, December 2, 2000.</ref>
The Journey Prize also publishes an annual anthology of the year's longlisted short stories. Two writers, Andrew MacDonald and David Bergen, have both had a record four total stories selected for inclusion in the annual anthology.
In 2020, the Journey Prize committee announced that the upcoming award would be a special edition devoted exclusively to Black Canadian writers, considering stories published in multiple years.<ref name=cbcblack>"2021 Journey Prize will focus on emerging Black Canadian writers" Template:Webarchive. CBC Books, June 23, 2020.</ref> Although the initial report was that the special Black Canadian edition of the award would be presented in 2021 for stories published in 2019, 2020 and 2021,<ref name=cbcblack/> the organizers instead paused the award for 2021 and 2022, and presented a special Black Canadian award in early 2023 to honour works published since 2020.<ref name=blackyear>Dana Gee, "Prestigious short story anthology focuses on emerging Canadian Black writers". Vancouver Sun, February 14, 2023.</ref>
In 2024, the 25th anniversary of the awards was marked with a special retrospective anthology, edited by Alexander MacLeod and Souvankham Thammavongsa, compiling selected winning and nominated stories from throughout the history of the awards.
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Template:Sortname | "Rapid Transits" | <ref>"Short story wins $10,000 for B.C. writer". Vancouver Sun, June 15, 1989.</ref> |
1990s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Template:Sortname | "My Father Took a Cake to France" | <ref>"Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, May 25, 1990.</ref> |
| 1991 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref>"Authors collect prizes of close to $80,000". Toronto Star, October 28, 1991.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Theories of Grief" | <ref name=1991shortlist>"Future winners". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 31, 1991.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=1991shortlist /> | |
| 1992 | Template:Sortname | "No Rosa, No District Six" | <ref>"Rebellious, defiant, resistant; Controversial feminist writer Rozena Maart wins $10,000 literary prize for short story". Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 1992.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains" | <ref name=1992shortlist>"McClelland and Stewart names shortlist for '92 Journey Prize". Montreal Gazette, September 12, 1992.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Bella's Story" | <ref name=1992shortlist /> | |
| 1993 | Template:Sortname | "Sister Doyle's Men" | <ref>"Burnaby author honored". Vancouver Sun, October 14, 1993.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "With the Band" | <ref name=1993shortlist>"Authors Shortlisted for Journey Prize". The Globe and Mail, September 22, 1993.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=1993shortlist /> | |
| 1994 | Template:Sortname | "Long Man the River" | <ref>"$50,000 writing prize goes to first Canadian". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 1994.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Water Margins" | <ref name=1994shortlist>"Journey Prize short list missing four names". Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1994.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Anomie" | <ref name=1994shortlist /> | |
| 1995 | Template:Sortname | "Of Marranos and Gilded Angels" | <ref>"Fetherling, Woodward honoured at festival". The Globe and Mail, October 12, 1995.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Song of Ascent" | <ref name=1995shortlist>"2 Ottawa writers among finalists for Journey prize". Ottawa Citizen, September 23, 1995.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Hand Games" | <ref name=1995shortlist /> | |
| 1996 | Template:Sortname | "Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?" | <ref name=gasco>"Elyse Gasco wins Journey Prize with grim tale about child abuse". Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 1996.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Bones" | <ref name=gasco/> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Lessons from the Sputnik Diner" | <ref name=gasco/> | |
| 1997 | Template:Sortname | "Maladies of the Inner Ear" | <ref name=tie>"Journey Prize ends in a tie". Edmonton Journal, October 24, 1997.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Dreaming Snow" | <ref name=tie/> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Speedboat" | <ref name=tie/> | |
| 1998 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref>"Montreal writer picks up $10,000 prize for short story". Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1998.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=colfordguppy>"Giller Prize nominees announced". Vancouver Sun, October 6, 1998.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Downwind" | <ref name=colfordguppy/> | |
| 1999 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref>Andrew Tolson, "Literary award means time to do what she loves". National Post, October 21, 1999.</ref> |
2000s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Template:Sortname | "Doves of Townsend" | <ref name=patter/> |
| 2001 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref>"Writers' Trust awards $75,000 in prizes". St. Catharines Standard, March 6, 2002.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Anything That Wiggles" | <ref name=shields>"Shields, Todd, Blaise nominated for literary awards". Moose Jaw Times-Herald, February 17, 2002.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Little Suitcase" | <ref name=shields/> | |
| 2002 | Template:Sortname | "Miss Canada" | <ref>"Literary award winners named". Nanaimo Daily News, March 7, 2003.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Listen" | <ref name=brownsmith>"Finalists named for Writers' Trust Awards". The Globe and Mail, February 12, 2003.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Green Fluorescent Protein" | <ref name=brownsmith/> | |
| 2003 | Template:Sortname | "My Husband’s Jump" | <ref>Rebecca Caldwell, "Writers' Trust announces winners". The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2004.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Hansel and Gretel" | <ref name=great>"Authors nominated for Great Literary Awards". The Telegram, February 8, 2004.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Hush" | <ref name=great/> | |
| 2004 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref>Anne-Marie Tobin, "Munro, Engel, Newman honoured". The Telegram, March 10, 2005.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Packers and Movers" | <ref name=munro>"Munro, Newman among Writers Trust nominees". Sherbrooke Record, February 4, 2005.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=munro/> | |
| 2005 | Template:Sortname | "Matchbook for a Mother's Hair" | <ref>"Canadian authors honoured in Toronto". Prince George Citizen, March 3, 2006.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=donnelly>Pat Donnelly, "Writers' Trust helps Canadian literature thrive". Montreal Gazette, February 18, 2006.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Seven Ways to Chandigarh" | <ref name=donnelly/> | |
| 2006 | Template:Sortname | "BriannaSusannaAlana" | <ref>"N.L. writer's 'Inside' wins fiction prize". Telegraph-Journal, March 8, 2007.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Conjugation" | <ref name=wiebe>"Rudy Wiebe tapped for Writer's Trust Awards: Memoir also up for rich Charles Taylor Prize". Edmonton Journal, February 7, 2007.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Cretacea" | <ref name=wiebe/> | |
| 2007 | Template:Sortname | "Ozy" | <ref>"Hill, Porter major winners". Victoria Times-Colonist, April 2, 2008.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Swimming in Zanzibar" | <ref name=adams>James Adams, "Vassanji, Ashenburg up for Trust honours". The Globe and Mail, February 27, 2008.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Chilly Girl" | <ref name=adams/> | |
| 2008 | Template:Sortname | "My Three Girls" | <ref>Morley Walker, "Toews takes home rich prize for The Flying Troutmans". Winnipeg Free Press, November 18, 2008.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Steaming for Godthab" | <ref name=ahearn>Victoria Ahearn, "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage among finalists for Writers' Trust book prizes". Canadian Press, October 1, 2008.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Chaperone" | <ref name=ahearn/> | |
| 2009 | Template:Sortname | "Floating Like the Dead" | <ref>Tom Hawthorn, "A writer's all too real tale puts her in spotlight". The Globe and Mail, December 7, 2009.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=coupland>Victoria Ahearn, "Alice Munro, Douglas Coupland among contenders for Writers Trust Awards". Canadian Press, September 20, 2009.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=coupland/> |
2010s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Template:Sortname | "Uncle Oscar" | <ref>Mark Medley, "A Room with a prize". National Post, November 3, 2010.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=helm>Richard Helm, "Siblings make short list for Canadian literary prize". Edmonton Journal, September 30, 2010.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Mating" | <ref name=helm/> | |
| 2011 | Template:Sortname | "Petitions to Saint Chronic" | <ref>"Hamilton's Miranda Hill wins Journey Prize". Hamilton Spectator, November 3, 2011.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | <ref name=charm>Mark Medley, "First & second time's the charm for authors; few veterans in writers' trust fiction nominees". National Post, September 29, 2011.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "First-Calf Heifer" | <ref name=charm/> | |
| 2012 | Template:Sortname | "Crisis on Earth-X" | <ref>"Nanaimo writer wins Rogers fiction prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, November 8, 2012.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "To Have to Wait" | <ref name=named>"Writers' finalists named". Toronto Star, September 20, 2012.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Manning" | <ref name=named/> | |
| 2013 | Template:Sortname | "Cinema Rex" | <ref>Simon Houpt, "Colin McAdam wins Writers' Trust award". The Globe and Mail, November 21, 2013.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?" | <ref name=nod>Mark Medley, "Writers' Trust gives nod to Lisa Moore, Lynn Coady". National Post, October 1, 2013.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "My Sister Sang" | <ref name=nod/> | |
| 2014 | Template:Sortname | "Sealskin" | <ref name=toews>"Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize" Template:Webarchive. Toronto Star, November 4, 2014.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Monsoon Season" | <ref name=toews/> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Juvenile" | <ref name=toews/> | |
| 2015 | Template:Sortname | "The Wise Baby" | <ref>"André Alexis wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize" Template:Webarchive. The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2015.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Last Animal Standing on Gentleman’s Farm" | <ref name=smith>"Globe columnist among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize nominees" Template:Webarchive. The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2015.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Red Egg and Ginger" | <ref name=smith/> | |
| 2016 | Template:Sortname | "The Emigrants" | <ref>"Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners" Template:Webarchive. CBC Books, November 2. 2016.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "If I Ever See the Sun" | <ref name=fiset>"Fiset, Langlois, McConvey Journey Prize finalists". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 16, 2016.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "How the Grizzly Came to Hang in the Royal Oak Hotel" | <ref name=fiset/> | |
| 2017 | Template:Sortname | "Butter Tea at Starbucks" | <ref name=chariandy>"David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards" Template:Webarchive. Quill & Quire, November 14, 2017.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "She Is Water" | <ref name=chariandy/> | |
| 2018 | Template:Sortname | "Mute" | <ref>"Books inspired by the authors’ parents win the top Writers’ Trust Awards" Template:Webarchive. Toronto Star, November 7, 2018.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Love" | <ref name=2018shortlist>"The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces Journey Prize finalists" Template:Webarchive. Quill & Quire, September 12, 2018.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Never Prosper" | <ref name=2018shortlist/> | |
| 2019 | Template:Sortname | "Pooka" | <ref>Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards" Template:Webarchive. Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Every True Artist" | <ref name=kelowna>"Local writer up for $10,000 prize" Template:Webarchive. Kelowna Daily Courier, September 17, 2019.</ref> | |
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2020s
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Template:Sortname | "Bad Cree" | <ref>"4 emerging Canadian writers receive $10K prizes from Writers' Trust of Canada" Template:Webarchive. CBC Books, October 21, 2020.</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | "Hunting" | <ref name=2020list>Ryan Porter, "Short fiction finalists announced for the 2020 Journey Prize" Template:Webarchive. Quill & Quire, August 26, 2020.</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | "Chemical Valley" | ||
| 2021 | No award presented | ||
| 2022 | No award presented | ||
| 2023 | Template:Sortname | <ref>"Emerging black writers win the Journey Prize". Caribbean Camera, February 1, 2023.</ref> | |
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