The Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
Winner: $10,000; Winning publisher: $2,000

The Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize is awarded annually to a new and developing writer of distinction for a short story published in a Canadian literary publication.

This award is made possible by James A. Michener’s generous donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his novel Journey, published by McClelland & Stewart in 1988.

The Journey Prize is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress.

Each fall McClelland & Stewart publishes The Journey Prize Stories, a collection of stories under consideration for the prize.

2007 Finalists

Previous Winners

2007 Craig Boyko for "OZY"
2006 Heather Birrell for "BriannaSusannaAlana"
2005 Matt Shaw for "Matchbook for a Mother's Hair"
2004 Devin Krukoff for "The Last Spark"
2003 Jessica Grant for "My Husband’s Jump"
2002 Jocelyn Brown for "Miss Canada"
2001 Kevin Armstrong for "The Cane Field"
2000 Timothy Taylor for "Doves of Townsend"
1999 Alissa York for "The Back of the Bear’s Mouth"
1998 John Brooke for "The Finer Points of Apples"
1997 (tie) Gabriella Goliger for "Maladies of the Inner Ear" and Anne Simpson for "Dreaming Snow"
1996 Elyse Gasco for "Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?"
1995 Kathryn Woodward for "Of Marranos and Gilded Angels"
1994 Melissa Hardy for "Long Man the River"
1993 Gayla Reid for "Sister Doyle’s Men"
1992 Rozena Maart for "No Rosa, No District Six"
1991 Yann Martel for "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios"
1990 Cynthia Flood for "My Father Took a Cake to France"
1989 Holley Rubinsky for "Rapid Transits"

Guidelines (click to download PDF)