Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize
Selected Stories 1989-2023
A Winnipeg Free Press Best Fiction Book of 2024
A landmark special edition celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Journey Prize.
Since its inception in 1989, the Journey Prize anthology has been widely celebrated for introducing readers to a who’s-who of up-and-coming Canadian literary voices, many of whom have gone on to become some of our most beloved writers. This special thirty-fifth-anniversary edition of Canada’s most prestigious annual fiction anthology gathers thirty-one timeless stories from throughout the prize’s history—some contemporary classics, some hidden gems—as chosen by two modern masters of the short story, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Alexander MacLeod, who are themselves previous Journey Prize contributors.
After her Olympic ski-jumper husband lifts off but never comes down, a woman counters the world’s doubts with her…