The Journey Prize Stories 32 by Amy Jones - ISBN: 9780771050992
Paperback
Canada’s best new short stories: Bold voices, unforgettable journeys.

The Journey Prize Stories 32

The Best of Canada's New Writers

  • Paperback

    216 pages

  • Release Date

    21 December 2020

Summary

For more than three decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who’s-who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from a wildlife rescue centre to a Living Body exhibit, the thirteen stories in this collection represent the year’s best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging literary talents.

On Sunday afternoons, a coven of teenagers gathers at The Lois Lanes bowling alley to discuss their shared obs…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780771050992
ISBN-10:0771050992
Author:Amy Jones, Tea Mutonji, Doretta Lau
Publisher:McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Imprint:McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:216
Release Date:21 December 2020
Weight:210g
Dimensions:209mm x 130mm
About The Author

Amy Jones

AMY JONES is the author of three novels, We’re All in This Together, a national bestseller and finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour; Every Little Piece of Me, which was named a CBC Best Book of the Year; and the forthcoming Pebble and Dove. She is also the author of a collection of stories, What Boys Like. Her short fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as Longform’s Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Hamilton.

DORETTA LAU is the author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? and the poetry chapbook Cause and Effect. She splits her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she is writing a comedic novel about an inept company struggling to open a theme park about death.

T A MUTONJI is a poet and fiction writer, born in Congo-Kinshasa. Her debut collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty, is the first title from Vivek Shraya’s imprint, VS. Books. It was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the Trillium Book Award. Mutonji lives and writes in Toronto.

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