The Journey Prize Stories 24 (29 page)
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Authors: Various
Trevor Corkum:
Too many to mention just one, but I’m a big fan of anything by George Saunders. He’s a master at finding the right form for the spiritual, material, and existential messiness of our time.
Jasmina Odor:
So many great ones – Raymond Carver’s story “Blackbird Pie,” Lisa Moore’s “Meet Me in Sidi Ifni,” Mavis Gallant’s “The Moslem Wife.” Because they are true, precise yet terrifically rich, and endlessly readable. You can read them
and reread them and always feel that they are full of history, that the language hits perfect notes, and also that you can’t ever quite “crack” the art of them, how they were built – you may think you understand the structure and the threads, but then there is always some place where the story goes beyond what you can imitate or reduce to its parts.
Andrew Hood:
I love Amy Hemple’s
Collected Stories
and Lorrie Moore’s
Collected Stories
. I feel safe when I’ve got these books handy.
Nancy Jo Cullen:
It’s hard to name a favourite, but a collection I really, really liked was
Our Kind
by Kate Walbert. The entire collection is written in the plural first person, which completely wowed me. And a story I love is “Half-Past Eight” by Edna Alford. The characters of Tessie and Flora are brilliant. They’re funny and a little tragic, but if you told them that they’d pop you one.
Shashi Bhat:
There are so many: Lauren Groff’s “Delicate Edible Birds” for its exquisitely crafted language; Stuart Dybek’s “Pet Milk” for its speed and nostalgia; Aimee Bender’s “The Rememberer” for its inventiveness and compression; Isabel Huggan’s
The Elizabeth Stories
for how she pushes her characters so much further than I expect them to go; Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” for the way it moves from cynicism to earnestness; Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” for how it’s sci-fi and yet entirely human; Haruki Murakami’s
After the Quake
for how it thwarted everything I thought I knew about narrative rules.
For more information about the journals that submitted to this year’s competition, The Journey Prize, and
The Journey Prize Stories
, please visit
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The Antigonish Review
is a creative literary quarterly that publishes poetry, fiction, critical articles, and reviews. We consider stories, poetry, and essays from anywhere – original or in translation – but our mandate is to encourage and publish new and emerging Canadian writers, with special consideration for writers from the Atlantic region who might otherwise go unrecognized. Submissions and correspondence:
The Antigonish Review
, P.O. Box 5000, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5. Website:
www.AntigonishReview.com
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. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.DalhousieReview.dal.ca
The Fiddlehead
, Atlantic Canada’s longest-running literary journal, publishes poetry and short fiction as well as book reviews. It appears four times a year, sponsors a contest for fiction and for poetry that awards a total of $5,000 in prizes, including the $1,500 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize.
The Fiddlehead
welcomes all good writing in English, from anywhere, looking always for that element of freshness and surprise. Editor: Ross Leckie. Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia. Submissions and correspondence:
The Fiddlehead
, Campus House, 11 Garland Court, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3. E-mail (queries only):
[email protected]
Website:
www.TheFiddlehead.ca
Blog, with original content:
TheFiddleheadNews.blogspot.ca
Founded in 2008 by author Emily Schultz and artist Brian Joseph Davis,
Joyland
is an online and print literary magazine that curates fiction regionally across North America and internationally. Praised by
Time Out, The Atlantic
, and the CBC for our unique approach,
Joyland
has published acclaimed and emerging authors alike, and, in 2011, we received three Distinguished Mentions in
Best American Short Stories
. Editors: Brian Joseph Davis (New York), Kevin Chong (Vancouver), Jim Hanas (US South), Emily M. Keeler (Toronto), Kara Levy (San Francisco), Charles McLeod (Midwest), David McGimpsey (Montreal/Atlantic), Mathew Timmons (Los Angeles). Submissions:
[email protected]
Correspondence:
[email protected]
Website:
www.JoylandMagazine.com
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 the spring issues feature winners of 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. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.MalahatReview.ca
The New Quarterly
is an award-winning literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, personal essays, interviews, and essays on writing. Now in its thirty-first year, the magazine prides itself on its independent take on the Canadian literary scene. Recent issues include The QuArc issue (a 290-page flip book on the interstices of science and literature undertaken with
Arc Poetry Magazine
) and The TNQ Extra (writers on their collections and obsessions). 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
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 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 three exemplary competitions: the Short Fiction Contest, the Literary Non-fiction Contest, and the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry. Executive Editors: Erin Flegg and andrea bennett. Fiction Editor: Cara Woodruff. Poetry Editor: Jordan Abel. Submissions and correspondence:
PRISM international
, Creative Writing Program, The University of British Columbia, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1. E-mail (for queries only):
[email protected]
Website:
www.PrismMagazine.ca
Founded in 1627,
The Puritan
is an online, quarterly publication based in Toronto, committed to publishing the best in new fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews.
The Puritan
seeks, above all, a pioneering literature.
The Puritan
embraces work wherever it lands on the conceptual spectrum, so long as it is original, intelligent, and engaging. The journal’s literary content is supplemented by in-depth, probing interviews and critical reviews.
The Puritan
also sponsors the annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence, a contest that rewards the best poem and short story submitted each year. Founding editors: Spencer Gordon and Tyler Willis. Submissions and correspondence:
[email protected]
Website:
www.Puritan-Magazine.com
Taddle Creek
restores the sanctity of the literary magazine, fusing traditional editorial and design values with non-ephemeral, modern-day urban fiction and poetry to create a product unassociated with any one literary movement. Works found in
Taddle Creek
are not easily categorized: intelligent yet stylish, sensitive yet cavalierly violent, self-absorbed yet socially aware, humourous yet disturbing. Each issue also includes a combination of illustrations, comics, essays, interviews, photographs, grammatical rants, and whatever else suits
Taddle Creek
’s fancy, resulting in a most unlikely literary journal–general interest hybrid. In short,
Taddle Creek
is the journal for those who have come to detest everything the literary magazine has become in the twenty-first century. Editor-in-Chief: Conan Tobias. Correspondence:
Taddle Creek
, P.O. Box 611, Stn. P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2Y4. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.TaddleCreekMag.com
Vancouver Review
is an iconoclastic, irreverent, and independent cultural quarterly that celebrated its eighth anniversary in 2011 and is currently on a publishing hiatus. This Journey Prize– and National Magazine Award–winning journal 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. In the Blueprint B.C. Fiction Series, launched in the summer of 2007,
Vancouver Review
explored the zeitgeist and geographic implications of the province through illustrated stories by first-time and established authors. Editor: Gudrun Will. Fiction Editor: Zsuzsi Gartner. For information on when submissions will be accepted again, please see our website:
www.VancouverReview.com
Submissions were also received from the following publications:
Broken Pencil
(Toronto, ON)
carte blanche
(Montreal, QC)
The Claremont Review
(Victoria, BC)
dANDelion Magazine
(Calgary, AB)
Descant
(Toronto, ON)
EVENT
(New Westminster, BC)
www.douglas.bc.ca/visitors/event-magazine
ELQ/Exile:
The Literary Quarterly
(Holstein, ON)
Found Press Quarterly
FreeFall
(Calgary, AB)
Geist
(Vancouver, BC)
Grain
(Saskatoon, SK)
Matrix
(Montreal, QC)
The New Orphic Review
(Nelson, BC)
http://www3.telus.net/neworphicpublishers-hekkanen
On Spec
(Edmonton, AB)
The Prairie Journal
(Calgary, AB)
Prairie Fire
(Winnipeg, MB)
Queen’s Quarterly
(Kingston, ON)
Riddle Fence
(St. John’s, NL)
Room
(Vancouver, BC)
subTerrain Magazine
(Vancouver, BC)
The Windsor Review
(Windsor, ON)
www.WindsorReview.wordpress.com
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