Publisher's Synopsis
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.
