Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology 13 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey Prize Anthology presents the best new Canadian writers from coast to coast. Many of today's high-profile writers had early work in this anthology, including André Alexis, David Bergen, Dennis Bock, Elizabeth Hay, Elise Levine, Timothy Taylor, and M.G. Vassanji. The final selection to appear in the anthology will be made from a total of 85 stories, submitted by the editors of literary journals across the county.
Download or read book Journey Celebrating the Journey Prize written by Various and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark special edition celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Journey Prize. Since its inception in 1989, the Journey Prize anthology has been widely celebrated for introducing readers to a who’s-who of up-and-coming Canadian literary voices, many of whom have gone on to become some of our most beloved writers. This special thirty-fifth-anniversary edition of Canada’s most prestigious annual fiction anthology gathers thirty-one timeless stories from throughout the prize’s history—some contemporary classics, some hidden gems—as chosen by two modern masters of the short story, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Alexander MacLeod, who are themselves previous Journey Prize contributors. After her Olympic ski-jumper husband lifts off but never comes down, a woman counters the world’s doubts with her own leap of faith. A daughter reflects on the simple ritual she shared with her father—and the moment when her unconditional love for him was called into question. An Indigenous Elder recounts an alternative creation story of Ah-damn and Evening to a trio of anthropologists. After months of trying to sell the worthless sports card collection his no-good father left behind, a boy is unprepared for a bizarre encounter with the “pile of human being” who wants to buy a card to complete his collection. A mother and child contend with the strange after-effects of an unusual multi-course meal. Infighting, blatant favouritism, and judging irregularities mar a living-room beauty pageant as four sisters vie for the title of Miss Canada. A carpet collector reimagines his family’s fractured history by weaving new tapestries to tell their stories. The last words of a fifty-year-old pet parakeet leads to the first in a series of unfortunate events. Marvellously eclectic, constantly surprising, and full of vibrant life, these glittering stories speak to the power of the short story and the extraordinary impact the Journey Prize continues to make on Canadian literature. Journey is a gift for readers and writers alike. Featuring an introduction by the editors, and stories by André Alexis, Michael Christie, Alicia Elliott, Jessica Grant, Kevin Hardcastle, Angélique Lalonde, Annabel Lyon, Thomas King, Téa Mutonji, Saleema Nawaz, Heather O'Neill, Eden Robinson, Naben Ruthnum, and Madeleine Thien, among others.
Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology written by M. G. Vassanji and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology written by Douglas Glover and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology written by McClelland & Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey Prize Anthologycelebrates its fifth anniversary with a selection, made with the assistance of Guy Vanderhaeghe, of eleven accomplished pieces of short fiction by some of the finest new voices in Canadian writing. The stories, with settings as varied as Alberta, Australia, Ireland, and El Salvador, tell of generational conflicts and resolutions, of how the past illuminates the present, and of how life must go on, even in the face of loss. Among the stories: The fates of a desperate young woman, a vain military man, and a weary Canadian news team collide dramatically amid the violence of a Central American civil war; in a story about the complications of middle age, the tensions between a visiting teenage son, his mother, and her new partner are broken when a moose inexplicably appears in their suburban swimming pool; a celebrated writer, learning that a friend and former lover is HIV-positive, confronts the limitations of his ability to love; in a strangely erotic tale, a misfit from a small North American town finds an unusual occupation in Japan; the funeral of a young man’s beloved grandfather climaxes with a procession of Voodoo gods; a man, seduced by his daughter’s roommate, has to overcome his guilt and shame to try to do what is best for his fatherless grandson; looking through old snapshots, an Australian woman gains insight into her unconventional mother's experiences as a wartime nurse. The winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize for 1993 was Gayla Reid, for “Sister Doyle’s Men.”
Download or read book I Know You Are But What Am I written by Heather Birrell and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in I know you are but what am I? are like snow domes - perfect little self-contained worlds that you can hold in your hand, turn upside down, shake until meaning settles in a hundred different ways. Young Misha learns about the complexities of grownup love when his mother is bitten by a stingray. Oldrick must come to terms with his ex-girlfriend's new lover and a belligerent barista in the midst of a smelly garbage strike. Bus-bound Marion, in love with a married man, finds solace in conversation with a convict and home-schooled Rational gets a tutor and learns that his 'hunker in the bunker' family isn't quite what he thought it was. 'Heather Birrell's sentences conjure worlds. These stories scintillate. Smart, sharp, alluring, they're full of the chance encounters, mysteries, missed connections and unexpected tenderness of contemporary life.' - Catherine Bush
Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology 11 written by Various and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade,The Journey Prize Anthologyhas been the premier showcase for Canada’s finest up-and-coming literary voices. In this eleventh edition, the anthology continues its tradition of presenting the best of Canada’s new writers. Among the twelve stories: Over the course of a long, hot summer with her invalid grandmother and a free-spirited babysitter, a young girl becomes increasingly aware of the complexities and ambiguities that lie on the other side of childhood. In a wistful tale about the enduring strength of family ties, a young Eskimo boy is determined to take on the responsibility of finding a new home for his infant brother. The sudden and unexpected death of his father prompts a man to embark on a meditative journey through his own peripatetic life. The pretensions and hypocrisies of a small town are comically brought to the surface during a Sunday Mass. After a fateful encounter, a defiant teenage girl and a solitary backwoodsman forge an uneasy life together amidst the wilderness of the Yukon. The progress of a married man’s seduction by a student is coolly observed by his wife. In a moving exploration of the power of memory and the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s, a woman tends to her now-elderly foster father. The winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize for 1999 was Alissa York for “The Back of the Bear’s Mouth.”
Download or read book Most Wanted written by Vivette J. Kady and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen stories in Vivette J. Kady's Most Wanted drop us into domestic landscapes we think we know -- until we are greeted by a cross-dressing pigeon-fancier, a phone-sex worker and a three-legged dog named Duane. Most Wanted begins with loss, ends with solace, and strange things happen in between: steak knives become darts, a mouse suffers an agonizing death, an inner incubus is embraced, and lightning strikes with amazing results. Kady writes with the discipline of a master-builder, but her brilliance comes from the manner in which her characters transcend fractured relationships, confinement and longing, and move out into the world whole and dignified. In strong, brave prose, Kady is a compassionate observer of the bittersweet in life.
Download or read book The Journey Prize Anthology written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature written by Cynthia Conchita Sugars and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the "literary" - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.
Download or read book Taste of Cherry written by Kara Candito and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a "garish/human theatre" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the "glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves" and Puccini's Tosca meets the din of the Times Square subway station. Ferociously witty and intensely lyrical, Taste of Cherry speaks to us in a language that is simultaneously private and public, sensual and cerebral.
Download or read book Silent Cruise written by Timothy Taylor and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine pieces collected here, many of them already anthologized in Best Canadian Short Stories and other annuals, bring us a new voice in short fiction--brilliant, stylish, humorous, and humane. In Timothy Taylor’s “Doves of Townsend,” these words, found in the pages of a field guide to butterflies, throw a lifeline to a young woman struggling to stay emotionally afloat in the wake her father’s suicide. They help her to explain to herself her father’s obsession with beautiful things. They also help her to understand the true value of her father’s legacy--the family’s antiques business, and her own inborn helplessness before the beautiful and the real. “Doves of Townsend” was chosen the best short story of the year 2000 by the judges of the Journey Prize, the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. O. Henry Prize Story. And in each of Taylor’s tales within this book, certain mysterious things of this world--an antique watch, a mountain of radiators, a racing-form, a constellation--reveal their beauty to those who have eyes to see. To read Silent Cruise is to see this poignant beauty for oneself, and, like Taylor’s characters, to have one’s life irresistibly changed by it.
Download or read book Unbroken written by Marieke Nijkamp and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled people in the past, present, and future. The contributing authors are awardwinners, bestsellers, and newcomers including Kody Keplinger, Kristine Wyllys, Francisco X. Stork, William Alexander, Corinne Duyvis, Marieke Nijkamp, Dhonielle Clayton, Heidi Heilig, Katherine Locke, Karuna Riazi, Kayla Whaley, Keah Brown, and Fox Benwell. Each author identifies as disabled along a physical, mental, or neurodiverse axis—and their characters reflect this diversity.
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Download or read book Silent Cruise written by Timothy L. Taylor and published by Vintage Books Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, including the Journey Prize-winning "Doves of Townsend". In the title story, a man obsessed by numbers is asked to apply the cascade of digits in his brain to a critical bet on the ponies. And in "Francisco's watch", a man inherits his father's 1934 Movado wristwatch, a gift that ends up telling a story of loss. 2002.
