The New Quarterly, Border Crossings, PRISM International are Journey finalists

Finalists for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize have been announced. (The $10,000 prize was made possible by writer James A. Michener's donation of his royalties from his 1988 novel Journey. It is for the best short story or excerpt from a novel-in-progress by a new and developing writer that had its first publication in a Canadian literary journal in the previous year. The journal which publishes the winning entry receives $2,000.)

The finalists are:

• Heather Birrell (Toronto) for “BriannaSusannaAlana,” published in The New Quarterly
• Lee Henderson (Vancouver) for “Conjugation,” published in Border Crossings
• Martin West (Calgary) for “Cretacea,” published in PRISM international

The winner will be named March 7 at a gala ceremony in Toronto.

Jurors were Steven Galloway (Vancouver), Zsuzsi Gartner (Vancouver), and Annabel Lyon (Vancouver).