Journey Prize Stories 27: The Best of Canada's New Writers

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The Journey Prize Stories has become a virtual who's who of up-and-coming writers, presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's best new writers. Previous contributors - including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Heather O'Neill, Michael Crummey, Emma Donoghue, Elizabeth Hay, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, and M.G. Vassanji - have gone on to win prestigious literary awards and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and CBC's 'Canada Reads' competition.

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"The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art." Globe and Mail

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ANTHONY DE SA is the author of the fiction collection Barnacle Love, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Toronto Book Award, and the novel Kicking the Sky. He attended The Humber School for Writers and Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. TANIS RIDEOUT is the author of the novel Above All Things and the poetry collection Arguments with the Lake. Her work has been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Emerging Writers and the CBC Literary Awards. She has an MFA from the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. CARRIE SNYDER is the author of the novel Girl Runner, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, as well as two books of short fiction, Hair Hat, a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, and The Juliet Stories, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario.