Journey Prize!

Dear Swiss Miss,

On behalf of The Writers’ Trust of Canada and McClelland & Stewart, I am delighted to let you know that your story “The Dead Dad Game,” published in PRISM international, has been chosen to appear in the forthcoming edition of McClelland & Stewart’s The Journey Prize Stories, the most prestigious and popular annual fiction anthology in Canada. As such, you are also a contender for The Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, which is awarded annually to an emerging writer of distinction for the best short story published in a Canadian literary journal in the previous calendar year. Congratulations!

Now in its 22nd year, The Journey Prize is made possible by the late James A. Michener’s generous donation of the Canadian royalties from his novel Journey, published by McClelland & Stewart in 1988. Previous winners of The Journey Prize include Yann Martel, Alissa York, Jessica Grant, Craig Boyko, and Timothy Taylor. These writers, and many others whose stories have appeared in the prize’s associated anthology – such as André Alexis, David Bergen, Dennis Bock, Craig Davidson, Elizabeth Hay, Lee Henderson, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, Heather O’Neill, Eden Robinson, Neil Smith, Madeleine Thien, and M.G. Vassanji, among others – have gone on to single themselves out with novels or collections, and have won many of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards.

As we have a more detailed information package to send you, please confirm that the contact details below that we received from PRISM international are still correct. Once we receive confirmation of your mailing address, you should expect to receive the information package within the next week or so. We will be contacting the editors of PRISM international in due course.

Congratulations on your inclusion in this year’s Journey Prize Stories. We look forward to hearing from you in due course.

With best wishes,
Senior Editor and Publications Manager (Fiction)
McClelland & Stewart