The Journey Prize Stories 28 (23 page)
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Authors: Kate Cayley
* Winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
** Co-winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize
1
1989
SELECTED WITH ALISTAIR M
AC
LEOD
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”
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Jean Rysstad, “Winter Baby”
Kevin Van Tighem, “Whoopers”
M.G. Vassanji, “In the Quiet of a Sunday Afternoon”
Bronwen Wallace, “Chicken âN' 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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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 M
C
NALLY (NICHOLAS HOARE LTD.)
Rick Bowers, “Dental Bytes”
David Elias, “How I Crossed Over”
Elyse Gasco, “Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?”
*
Danuta Gleed, “Bones”
Elizabeth Hay, “The Friend”
Linda Holeman, “Turning the Worm”
Elaine Littman, “The Winner's Circle”
Murray Logan, “Steam”
Rick Maddocks, “Lessons from the Sputnik Diner”
K.D. Miller, “Egypt Land”
Gregor Robinson, “Monster Gaps”
Alma Subasic, “Dust”
9
1997
SELECTED WITH NINO RICCI; NICHOLAS PASHLEY (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BOOKSTORE)
Brian Bartlett, “Thomas, Naked”
Dennis Bock, “Olympia”
Kristen den Hartog, “Wave”
Gabriella Goliger, “Maladies of the Inner Ear”
**
Terry Griggs, “Momma Had a Baby”
Mark Anthony Jarman, “Righteous Speedboat”
Judith Kalman, “Not for Me a Crown of Thorns”
Andrew Mullins, “The World of Science”
Sasenarine Persaud, “Canada Geese and Apple Chatney”
Anne Simpson, “Dreaming Snow”
**
Sarah Withrow, “Ollie”
Terence Young, “The Berlin Wall”
10
1998
SELECTED BY PETER BUITENHUIS; HOLLEY RUBINSKY; CELIA DUTHIE (DUTHIE BOOKS LTD.)
John Brooke, “The Finer Points of Apples”
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Ian Colford, “The Reason for the Dream”
Libby Creelman, “Cruelty”
Michael Crummey, “Serendipity”
Stephen Guppy, “Downwind”
Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Graduation”
Elise Levine, “You Are You Because Your Little Dog Loves You”
Jean McNeil, “Bethlehem”
Liz Moore, “Eight-Day Clock”
Edward O'Connor, “The Beatrice of Victoria College”
Tim Rogers, “Scars and Other Presents”
Denise Ryan, “Marginals, Vivisections, and Dreams”
Madeleine Thien, “Simple Recipes”
Cheryl Tibbetts, “Flowers of Africville”
11
1999
SELECTED BY LESLEY CHOYCE; SHELDON CURRIE; MARY-JO ANDERSON (FROG HOLLOW BOOKS)
Mike Barnes, “In Florida”
Libby Creelman, “Sunken Island”
Mike Finigan, “Passion Sunday”
Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Territory”
Mark Anthony Jarman, “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World”
Barbara Lambert, “Where the Bodies Are Kept”
Linda Little, “The Still”
Larry Lynch, “The Sitter”
Sandra Sabatini, “The One With the News”
Sharon Steams, “Brothers”
Mary Walters, “Show Jumping”
Alissa York, “The Back of the Bear's Mouth”
*
12
2000
SELECTED BY CATHERINE BUSH; HAL NIEDZVIECKI; MARC GLASSMAN (PAGES BOOKS AND MAGAZINES)
Andrew Gray, “The Heart of the Land”
Lee Henderson, “Sheep Dub”
Jessica Johnson, “We Move Slowly”
John Lavery, “The Premier's New Pyjamas”
J.A. McCormack, “Hearsay”
Nancy Richler, “Your Mouth Is Lovely”
Andrew Smith, “Sightseeing”
Karen Solie, “Onion Calendar”
Timothy Taylor, “Doves of Townsend”
*
Timothy Taylor, “Pope's Own”
Timothy Taylor, “Silent Cruise”
R.M. Vaughan, “Swan Street”
13
2001
SELECTED BY ELYSE GASCO; MICHAEL HELM; MICHAEL NICHOLSON (INDIGO BOOKS & MUSIC INC.)
Kevin Armstrong, “The Cane Field”
*
Mike Barnes, “Karaoke Mon Amour”
Heather Birrell, “Machaya”
Heather Birrell, “The Present Perfect”
Craig Boyko, “The Gun”
Vivette J. Kady, “Anything That Wiggles”
Billie Livingston, “You're Taking All the Fun Out of It”
Annabel Lyon, “Fishes”
Lisa Moore, “The Way the Light Is”
Heather O'Neill, “Little Suitcase”
Susan Rendell, “In the Chambers of the Sea”
Tim Rogers, “Watch”
Margrith Schraner, “Dream Dig”
14
2002
SELECTED BY ANDRÃ ALEXIS; DEREK MCCORMACK; DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN
Mike Barnes, “Cogagwee”
Geoffrey Brown, “Listen”
Jocelyn Brown, “Miss Canada”
*
Emma Donoghue, “What Remains”
Jonathan Goldstein, “You Are a Spaceman With Your Head Under the Bathroom Stall Door”
Robert McGill, “Confidence Men”
Robert McGill, “The Stars Are Falling”
Nick Melling, “Philemon”
Robert Mullen, “Alex the God”
Karen Munro, “The Pool”
Leah Postman, “Being Famous”
Neil Smith, “Green Fluorescent Protein”
15
2003
SELECTED BY MICHELLE BERRY; TIMOTHY TAYLOR; MICHAEL WINTER
Rosaria Campbell, “Reaching”
Hilary Dean, “The Lemon Stories”
Dawn Rae Downton, “Hansel and Gretel”
Anne Fleming, “Gay Dwarves of America”
Elyse Friedman, “Truth”
Charlotte Gill, “Hush”
Jessica Grant, “My Husband's Jump”
*
Jacqueline Honnet, “Conversion Classes”
S.K. Johannesen, “Resurrection”
Avner Mandelman, “Cuckoo”
Tim Mitchell, “Night Finds Us”
Heather O'Neill, “The Difference Between Me and Goldstein”
16
2004
SELECTED BY ELIZABETH HAY; LISA MOORE; MICHAEL REDHILL
Anar Ali, “Baby Khaki's Wings”
Kenneth Bonert, “Packers and Movers”
Jennifer Clouter, “Benny and the Jets”
Daniel Griffin, “Mercedes Buyer's Guide”
Michael Kissinger, “Invest in the North”
Devin Krukoff, “The Last Spark”
*
Elaine McCluskey, “The Watermelon Social”
William Metcalfe, “Nice Big Car, Rap Music Coming Out the Window”
Lesley Millard, “The Uses of the Neckerchief”
Adam Lewis Schroeder, “Burning the Cattle at Both Ends”
Michael V. Smith, “What We Wanted”
Neil Smith, “Isolettes”
Patricia Rose Young, “Up the Clyde on a Bike”
17
2005
SELECTED BY JAMES GRAINGER AND NANCY LEE
Randy Boyagoda, “Rice and Curry Yacht Club”
Krista Bridge, “A Matter of Firsts”
Josh Byer, “Rats, Homosex, Saunas, and Simon”
Craig Davidson, “Failure to Thrive”
McKinley M. Hellenes, “Brighter Thread”
Catherine Kidd, “Green-Eyed Beans”
Pasha Malla, “The Past Composed”
Edward O'Connor, “Heard Melodies Are Sweet”
Barbara Romanik, “Seven Ways into Chandigarh”
Sandra Sabatini, “The Dolphins at Sainte Marie”
Matt Shaw, “Matchbook for a Mother's Hair”
*
Richard Simas, “Anthropologies”
Neil Smith, “Scrapbook”
Emily White, “Various Metals”
18
2006
SELECTED BY STEVEN GALLOWAY; ZSUZSI GARTNER; ANNABEL LYON
Heather Birrell, “BriannaSusannaAlana”
*
Craig Boyko, “The Baby”
Craig Boyko, “The Beloved Departed”
Nadia Bozak, “Heavy Metal Housekeeping”
Lee Henderson, “Conjugation”
Melanie Little, “Wrestling”
Matthew Rader, “The Lonesome Death of Joseph Fey”
Scott Randall, “Law School”
Sarah Selecky, “Throwing Cotton”
Damian Tarnopolsky, “Sleepy”
Martin West, “Cretacea”
David Whitton, “The Eclipse”
Clea Young, “Split”
19
2007
SELECTED BY CAROLINE ADDERSON; DAVID BEZMOZGIS; DIONNE BRAND
Andrew J. Borkowski, “Twelve Versions of Lech”
Craig Boyko, “OZY”
*
Grant Buday, “The Curve of the Earth”
Nicole Dixon, “High-Water Mark”
Krista Foss, “Swimming in Zanzibar”
Pasha Malla, “Respite”
Alice Petersen, “After Summer”
Patricia Robertson, “My Hungarian Sister”
Rebecca Rosenblum, “Chilly Girl”
Nicholas Ruddock, “How Eunice Got Her Baby”
Jean Van Loon, “Stardust”
20
2008
SELECTED BY LYNN COADY; HEATHER O'NEILL; NEIL SMITH
Théodora Armstrong, “Whale Stories”
Mike Christie, “Goodbye Porkpie Hat”
Anna Leventhal, “The Polar Bear at the Museum”
Naomi K. Lewis, “The Guiding Light”
Oscar Martens, “Breaking on the Wheel”
Dana Mills, “Steaming for Godthab”
Saleema Nawaz, “My Three Girls”
*
Scott Randall, “The Gifted Class”
S. Kennedy Sobol, “Some Light Down”
Sarah Steinberg, “At Last at Sea”
Clea Young, “Chaperone”
