The Journey Prize Stories 27 (29 page)

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”

21
2009
SELECTED BY CAMILLA GIBB; LEE HENDERSON; REBECCA ROSENBLUM

Daniel Griffin, “The Last Great Works of Alvin Cale”

Jesus Hardwell, “Easy Living”

Paul Headrick, “Highlife”

Sarah Keevil, “Pyro”

Adrian Michael Kelly, “Lure”

Fran Kimmel, “Picturing God’s Ocean”

Lynne Kutsukake, “Away”

Alexander MacLeod, “Miracle Mile”

Dave Margoshes, “The Wisdom of Solomon”

Shawn Syms, “On the Line”

Sarah L. Taggart, “Deaf”

Yasuko Thanh, “Floating Like the Dead”
*

22
2010
SELECTED BY PASHA MALLA; JOAN THOMAS; ALISSA YORK

Carolyn Black, “Serial Love”

Andrew Boden, “Confluence of Spoors”

Laura Boudreau, “The Dead Dad Game”

Devon Code, “Uncle Oscar”
*

Danielle Egan, “Publicity”

Krista Foss, “The Longitude of Okay”

Lynne Kutsukake, “Mating”

Ben Lof, “When in the Field with Her at His Back”

Andrew MacDonald, “Eat Fist!”

Eliza Robertson, “Ship’s Log”

Mike Spry, “Five Pounds Short and Apologies to Nelson Algren”

Damian Tarnopolsky, “Laud We the Gods”

23
2011
SELECTED BY ALEXANDER MACLEOD; ALISON PICK; SARAH SELECKY

Jay Brown, “The Girl from the War”

Michael Christie, “The Extra”

Seyward Goodhand, “The Fur Trader’s Daughter”

Miranda Hill, “Petitions to Saint Chronic”
*

Fran Kimmel, “Laundry Day”

Ross Klatte, “First-Calf Heifer”

Michelle Serwatuk, “My Eyes Are Dim”

Jessica Westhead, “What I Would Say”

Michelle Winters, “Toupée”

D.W. Wilson, “The Dead Roads”

24
2012
SELECTED BY MICHAEL CHRISTIE; KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER; KATHLEEN WINTER

Kris Bertin, “Is Alive and Can Move”

Shashi Bhat, “Why I Read
Beowulf

Astrid Blodgett, “Ice Break”

Trevor Corkum, “You Were Loved”

Nancy Jo Cullen, “Ashes”

Kevin Hardcastle, “To Have to Wait”

Andrew Hood, “I’m Sorry and Thank You”

Andrew Hood, “Manning”

Grace O’Connell, “The Many Faces of Montgomery Clift”

Jasmina Odor, “Barcelona”

Alex Pugsley, “Crisis on Earth-X”
*

Eliza Robertson, “Sea Drift”

Martin West, “My Daughter of the Dead Reeds”

25
2013
SELECTED BY MIRANDA HILL; MARK MEDLEY; RUSSELL WANGERSKY

Steven Benstead, “Megan’s Bus”

Jay Brown, “The Egyptians”

Andrew Forbes, “In the Foothills”

Philip Huynh, “Gulliver’s Wife”

Amy Jones, “Team Ninja”

Marnie Lamb, “Mrs. Fujimoto’s Wednesday Afternoons”

Doretta Lau, “How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?”

Laura Legge, “It’s Raining in Paris”

Natalie Morrill, “Ossicles”

Zoey Leigh Peterson, “Sleep World”

Eliza Robertson, “My Sister Sang”

Naben Ruthnum, “Cinema Rex”
*

26
2014
SELECTED BY STEVEN W. BEATTIE; CRAIG DAVIDSON; SALEEMA NAWAZ

Rosaria Campbell, “Probabilities”

Nancy Jo Cullen, “Hashtag Maggie Vandermeer”

M.A. Fox, “Piano Boy”

Kevin Hardcastle, “Old Man Marchuk”

Amy Jones, “Wolves, Cigarettes, Gum”

Tyler Keevil, “Sealskin”
*

Jeremy Lanaway, “Downturn”

Andrew MacDonald, “Four Minutes”

Lori McNulty, “Monsoon Season”

Shana Myara, “Remainders”

Julie Roorda, “How to Tell if Your Frog Is Dead”

Leona Theis, “High Beams”

Clea Young, “Juvenile”

*
Winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize

**
Co-winners of the $10,000 Journey Prize

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