The Journey Prize is a Canadian

Canada

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 literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart

McClelland and Stewart

McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is partially owned by Random House of Canada, now a subsidiary of Bertelsmann....

 and the Writers' Trust of Canada

Writers' Trust of Canada

The Writers' Trust of Canada is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976...

 for the best short story published by an emerging writer in a Canadian literary magazine. The award was endowed by James A. Michener

James A. Michener

James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories...

, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.

The prize's winner in 2000, Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor (writer)

Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011....

, was also the first writer ever to have three stories make the prize's shortlist in the same year.

The Journey Prize also publishes an annual anthology of the year's nominated short stories.

Winners

• 1989 - Holley Rubinsky
  Holley Rubinsky
  Holley Rubinsky is a fiction writer who lives in British Columbia, Canada. Born in Los Angeles California, she came to B.C. in 1976 with her daughter, the artist and children's book writer, Robin Ballard....
  
  , "Rapid Transits"
• 1990 - Cynthia Flood
  Cynthia Flood
  Cynthia Flood is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up in Toronto...
  
  , "My Father Took a Cake to France"
• 1991 - Yann Martel
  Yann Martel
  Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.-Early life:Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain where his father was posted as a diplomat for the Canadian government. He was raised in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and Canada...
  
  , "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios"
• 1992 - Rozena Maart
  Rozena Maart
  Dr. Rozena Maart is a South African writer, and professor, currently living between Cape Town, South Africa and Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She has been recognized for her writing, and for her work opposing apartheid and violence against women...
  
  , "No Rosa, No District Six"
• 1993 - Gayla Reid
  Gayla Reid
  Gayla Reid is an Australian-born Canadian writer.Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia...
  
  , "Sister Doyle’s Men"
• 1994 - Melissa Hardy, "Long Man the River"
• 1995 - Kathryn Woodward, "Of Marranos and Gilded Angels"
• 1996 - Elyse Gasco
  Elyse Gasco
  Elyse Gasco, MA is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree....
  
  , "Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?"
• 1997 - (tie) Gabriella Goliger
  Gabriella Goliger
  Gabriella Goliger is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She won the Journey Prize in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published two books, Song of Ascent in 2001 and Girl Unwrapped in 2010....
  
  , "Maladies of the Inner Ear" and Anne Simpson
  Anne Simpson
  -Career:Simpson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queen’s University, and she also graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University . Subsequently, she worked as a CUSO volunteer English teacher for two years in Nigeria. She teaches part-time at St...
  
  , "Dreaming Snow"
• 1998 - John Brooke, "The Finer Points of Apples"
• 1999 - Alissa York
  Alissa York
  Alissa York is a Canadian writer and the 1999 winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Toronto with her writer/filmmaker/publisher husband Clive Holden....
  
  , "The Back of the Bear’s Mouth"
• 2000 - Timothy Taylor
  Timothy Taylor (writer)
  Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011....
  
  , "Doves of Townsend"
• 2001 - Kevin Armstrong, "The Cane Field"
• 2002 - Jocelyn Brown, "Miss Canada"
• 2003 - Jessica Grant
  Jessica Grant
  Jessica Grant is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise won the 2009 Winterset Award and the 2009 Books in Canada First Novel Award....
  
  , "My Husband’s Jump"
• 2004 - Devin Krukoff, "The Last Spark"
• 2005 - Matt Shaw, "Matchbook for a Mother's Hair"
• 2006 - Heather Birrell, "BriannaSusannaAlana"
• 2007 - Craig Boyko, "Ozy"
• 2008 - Saleema Nawaz
  Saleema Nawaz
  Saleema Nawaz is a Canadian author whose works of short fiction have been published in literary journals such as Prairie Fire, PRISM International, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly. Nawaz was born in Ottawa, Ontario and later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in order to study English...
  
  , "My Three Girls"
• 2009 - Yasuko Thanh, "Floating like the Dead"
• 2010 - Devon Code, "Uncle Oscar"
• 2011 - Miranda Hill, "Petitions to Saint Chronic"