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J.R. McConvey is a writer from Toronto. His short fiction has appeared in The Malahat Review, EVENT, Joyland, The Dalhousie Review, The Puritan, and other publications, and has been shortlisted for the Matrix Lit POP award and the Bristol Short Story Prize. His story, “The Last Ham,” is available as an e-book single from House of Anansi Digital. He is also a documentary producer whose work includes the award-winning National Parks Project, and an occasional poet and journalist. He recently finished his first novel.
Paige Cooper’s work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Gulf Coast Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Matrix. Stories are forthcoming in Minola Review, Carousel, and Best Canadian Stories 2016. Biblioasis will put out her first book, Zolitūde, in 2017. She lives in Montreal.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of three poetry books, the most recent of which, Light, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her story “How to Pronounce Knife” was shortlisted for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and other stories have appeared in NOON, The Puritan, Ricepaper, and other places. She has been in residence at Yaddo. Currently, Thammavongsa is completing a collection of short stories and a memoir of her childhood.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING PUBLICATIONS
For more information about the publications that submitted to this year’s competition, The Journey Prize, and The Journey Prize Stories, please visit www.facebook.com/TheJourneyPrize.
EVENT features the very best in contemporary writing from Canada and abroad, from literary heavyweights to up-and-comers. For over four decades, EVENT has consistently published award-winning fiction, poetry, non-fiction, notes on writing, and critical reviews—all topped off by stunning Canadian cover art. Stories first published in EVENT regularly appear in the Best Canadian Stories and Journey Prize Stories anthologies, and recently won both the Gold and Silver National Magazine Awards in Fiction in (2012 and 2011), and Western Magazine Awards in Fiction in (2012 and 2010). EVENT is also home to Canada’s longest-running annual non-fiction contest and its Reading Service for Writers. Editor: Shasi Bhat. Managing Editor: Ian Cockfield. Fiction Editor: Christine Dewar. Submissions and correspondence: EVENT, P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, British Columbia, V3L 5B2. Email (queries only): event@douglascollege.ca Website: www.eventmagazine.ca
The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s longest-running literary journal, publishes poetry, short fiction, book reviews, and creative non-fiction. 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 $2,000 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and the $2,000 short fiction prize. The Fiddlehead welcomes all good writing in English, from anywhere, looking always for that element of freshness and surprise. Editor: Ross Leckie. 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): fiddlehd@unb.ca Website: www.TheFiddlehead.ca Twitter: @TheFiddlehd You can also find The Fiddlehead on Facebook.
Based on the idea that fiction is an international movement supported by local communities, Joyland is a literary magazine that selects stories regionally. Our editors work with authors connected to locales across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Toronto, as well as places underrepresented in cultural media. New content appears weekly and we go into print twice yearly with Retro. Publishers: Brian Joseph Davis, Emily Schultz. Managing Editor: Kyle Lucia Wu. Senior Editors: Eleanor Kriseman (New York), Kara Levy (San Francisco), Lisa Locascio (Los Angeles), David McGimpsey (Montreal and Atlantic Canada), Kathryn Mockler (Toronto and Vancouver), Anna Prushinskaya (Midwest), Charles McLeod (Pacific Northwest). No hardcopy submissions accepted. Please see Joylandmagazine.com for submission details or contact joylandsubmissions@gmail.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 Constance Rooke 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: malahat@uvic.ca Website: www.malahatreview.ca Twitter: @malahatreview
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, drama, and translations. PRISM editors select work based on originality and quality, and the magazine showcases work from both new and established writers from Canada and around the world. PRISM holds three exemplary annual competitions for short fiction, literary non-fiction, and poetry, and awards the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry to an outstanding poet whose work was featured in PRISM in the preceding year. Executive Editors: Jennifer Lori and Claire Matthews. Prose Editor: Christopher Evans. Poetry Editor: Dominique Bernier-Cormier. Reviews Editor: Anita Bedell. Submissions and correspondence: PRISM international, Creative Writing Program, The University of British Columbia, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1. Website:www.prismmagazine.ca
Since its foundation in 2006, The Puritan has published work by, and interviews with, some of Canada’s finest literary talents. It is one of very few online literary magazines that offers substantial honorariums for its contributors. In 2012, The Puritan was one of the first two online magazines to have its fiction featured in the Journey Prize Stories. The magazine routinely features guest editors for its regular issues and judges for its annual literary contest, The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize, which now awards over $4,000 in prizes. Past guest editors and contest judges have included Katherena Vermette, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Sonnet L’Abbé, Rawi Hage, Miriam Toews, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Margaret Atwood. The Puritan also runs The Town Crier, one of the best—and most productive—literary blogs in the country. Senior Editors: Spencer Gordon and Tyler Willis. Website: www.puritan-magazine.com Submissions: www.puritan-magazine.com/ submissions Blog: www.town-crier.ca.
Beginning as a modest eight-page newsletter for the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), Ricepaper has evolved into a magazine distributed coast-to-coast, publishing the new voices coming out of the Asian Canadian arts and literary community. Since 1994, Ricepaper has showcased Asian Canadian literature, culture, and the arts, and it continues to be the only Canadian literary magazine of its kind with an Asian Canadian perspective, publishing new poetry, fiction, drama, graphic novel, translation, and almost every other kind of creative writing from writers across the country, as well as cultural reviews of books, theatre, and film. The body of work coming out of the Asian Canadian artists and writers’ community is prolific and growing. Ricepaper profiles and interviews the leading and up-and-coming artists and writers in this community. Executive Editor: Allan Cho. Fiction Editor: Karla Comanda. Submissions and correspondence: Ricepaper magazine, PO Box 74174, Hillcrest RPO, Vancouver, BC, V5V 5L8. Email: info@ricepapermagazine.ca Website: www.ricepapermagazine.ca
The Rusty Toque is a contemporary online literary and arts journal. We strive to publish innovative literary writing, film, comics, reviews, and visual art from new and established writers and artists in the spring and fall of each year. We also have an ongoing interview series, a review series, and a special features section. We are supported through a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts. Publisher: Kathryn Mockler, Senior Editors: Davi
d Poolman, Aaron Schneider, Jacqueline Valencia. Email: therustytoque@gmail.com Website: www.therustytoque.com
SubTerrain Magazine’s mandate is to publish contemporary and sometimes controversial Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and visual art. Presented in an attractive and accessible magazine format, subTerrain features interviews, timely commentary, and book reviews in every issue. Ninety percent of the magazine’s editorial content is original and previously unpublished material from new writers and artists. subTerrain is praised by both writers and readers for featuring work that might not find a home in more conservative periodicals. The magazine is home to the Lush Triumphant Literary Awards, awarding $3,000 in prizes each year, plus publication. subTerrain itself has been recognized by numerous awards over the years, including the National Magazine Awards, Western Magazine Awards and others. subTerrain’s main objective in fulfilling its mandate is to continually challenge the status quo—by showcasing the best in progressive writing and ideas, subTerrain seeks to expand the definition of Canadian literary and artistic culture. Editor-in-Chief: Brian Kaufman. Managing Editor: Natasha Sanders-Kay. Submissions and correspondence: subTerrain Magazine, P.O. Box 3008 MPO, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3X5. Submissions info, subscriptions, and samples at www.subterrain.ca
Taddle Creek often is asked to define itself and, just as often, it tends to refuse to do so. But it will say this: each issue of the magazine contains a multitude of things between its snazzily illustrated covers, including, but not limited to, fiction, poetry, comics, art, interviews, and feature stories. It’s an odd mix, to be sure, which is why Taddle Creek refers to itself somewhat oddly as a “general-interest literary magazine.” Work presented in Taddle Creek is humorous, poignant, ephemeral, urban, and rarely overly earnest, though not usually all at once. Taddle Creek takes its mission to be the journal for those who detest everything the literary magazine has become in the twenty-first century very seriously. Editor-in-Chief: Conan Tobias. Correspondence: Taddle Creek, P.O. Box 611, Stn. P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2Y4. E-mail: editor@taddlecreekmag.com. Website: taddlecreekmag.com.
Submissions were also received from the following publications:
Agnes and True
www.agnesandtrue.com
The Antigonish Review
(Antigonish, NS)
www.antigonishreview.com
Cosmonauts Avenue
(Montreal, QC)
www.cosmonautsavenue.com
The Dalhousie Review
(Halifax, NS)
www.dalhousiereview.dal.ca
The Danforth Review
(Toronto, ON)
www.danforthreview.com
FreeFall Magazine
(Calgary, AB)
www.freefallmagazine.ca
Glass Buffalo
(Edmonton, AB)
www.glassbuffalo.com
Grain Magazine
(Regina, SK)
www.grainmagazine.ca
The Humber Literary Review
(Toronto, ON)
www.humberliteraryreview.com
The Impressment Gang
(Halifax, NS)
www.theimpressmentgang.com
Little Fiction / Big Truths
(Toronto, ON)
www.littlefiction.com
Matrix Magazine
(Montreal QC)
www.matrixmagazine.org
Newfoundland Quarterly
(St. John’s, NL)
www.mun.ca/nq
The New Orphic Review
(Nelson, BC)
The New Quarterly
(Waterloo, ON)
www.tnq.ca
(parenthetical)
(Toronto, ON)
www.wordsonpagespress.com/parenthetical
Plenitude Magazine
www.plenitudemagazine.ca
Prairie Fire
(Winnipeg, MB)
www.prairiefire.ca
The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature
(Calgary, AB)
www.prairiejournal.org
PULP Literature
(Vancouver, BC)
www.pulpliterature.com
Riddle Fence
(St. John’s NL)
www.riddlefence.com
Room Magazine
(Vancouver, BC)
www.roommagazine.com
This Magazine
(Toronto, ON)
www.this.org
The Walrus
(Toronto, ON)
www.thewalrus.ca
PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
* Winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
** Co-winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
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
Donald Aker, “The Invitation”
Anton Baer, “Yukon”
Allan Barr, “A Visit from Lloyd”
David Bergen, “The Fall”
Rai Berzins, “Common Sense”
Diana Hartog, “Theories of Grief”
Diane Keating, “The Salem Letters”
Yann Martel, “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”*
Jennifer Mitton, “Polaroid”
Sheldon Oberman, “This Business with Elijah”
Lynn Podgurny, “Till Tomorrow, Maple Leaf Mills”
James Riseborough, “She Is Not His Mother”
Patricia Stone, “Living on the Lake”
4
1992
SELECTED WITH SANDRA BIRDSELL
David Bergen, “The Bottom of the Glass”
Maria A. Billion, “No Miracles Sweet Jesus”
Judith Cowan, “By the Big River”
Steven Heighton, “How Beautiful upon the Mountains”
Steven Heighton, “A Man Away from Home Has No Neighbours”
L. Rex Kay, “Travelling”
Rozena Maart, “No Rosa, No District Six”*
Guy Malet De Carteret, “Rainy Day”
Carmelita McGrath
, “Silence”
Michael Mirolla, “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence”
Diane Juttner Perreault, “Bella’s Story”
Eden Robinson, “Traplines”
5
1993
SELECTED WITH GUY VANDERHAEGHE
Caroline Adderson, “Oil and Dread”
David Bergen, “La Rue Prevette”
Marina Endicott, “With the Band”
Dayv James-French, “Cervine”
Michael Kenyon, “Durable Tumblers”
K.D. Miller, “A Litany in Time of Plague”
Robert Mullen, “Flotsam”
Gayla Reid, “Sister Doyle’s Men”*
Oakland Ross, “Bang-bang”
Robert Sherrin, “Technical Battle for Trial Machine”
Carol Windley, “The Etruscans”
6
1994
SELECTED WITH DOUGLAS GLOVER; JUDITH CHANT (CHAPTERS)
Anne Carson, “Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother”
Richard Cumyn, “The Sound He Made”
Genni Gunn, “Versions”
Melissa Hardy, “Long Man the River”*
Robert Mullen, “Anomie”
Vivian Payne, “Free Falls”
Jim Reil, “Dry”
Robyn Sarah, “Accept My Story”
Joan Skogan, “Landfall”
Dorothy Speak, “Relatives in Florida”
Alison Wearing, “Notes from Under Water”
7
1995
SELECTED WITH M.G. VASSANJI; RICHARD BACHMANN (A DIFFERENT DRUMMER BOOKS)
Michelle Alfano, “Opera”
Mary Borsky, “Maps of the Known World”
Gabriella Goliger, “Song of Ascent”
Elizabeth Hay, “Hand Games”
Shaena Lambert, “The Falling Woman”
Elise Levine, “Boy”
Roger Burford Mason, “The Rat-Catcher’s Kiss”
Antanas Sileika, “Going Native”
Kathryn Woodward, “Of Marranos and Gilded Angels”*
8
1996
SELECTED WITH OLIVE SENIOR; BEN MCNALLY (NICHOLAS HOARE LTD.)
Rick Bowers, “Dental Bytes”
David Elias, “How I Crossed Over”
Elyse Gasco, “Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?”*