Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors - including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Crummey, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O'Neill, Pasha Malla, Timothy Taylor, M.G. Vassanji, and Alissa York - have gone on to win prestigious literary awards and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and CBC's Canada Reads competition.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 winner will be announced in fall 2010.

Reading the 2010 Journey Prize Stories A Conversation with Pasha Malla,Joan Thomas, and Alissa York CAROLYN BLACKSerial Love (from Exile: The Literary Quarterly) ANDREW BODENConfluence of Spoors (from Vancouver Review) LAURA BOUDREAUThe Dead Dad Game (from PRISM international ) DEVON CODEUncle Oscar (from The Malahat Review) DANIELLE EGANPublicity (from Vancouver Review) KRISTA FOSSThe Longitude of Okay (from Grain Magazine) LYNNE KUTSUKAKEMating (from The Dalhousie Review) BEN LOFWhen in the Field with Her at His Back (from The Malahat Review) ANDREW MACDONALDEat Fist! (from EVENT) ELIZA ROBERTSONShip's Log (from The Malahat Review) MIKE SPRYFive Pounds Short and Apologies to Nelson Algren (from This Magazine) DAMIAN TARNOPOLSKYLaud We the Gods (from subTerrain Magazine) About the Authors About the Contributing Journals Previous Contributing Authors