Litmags' stories longlisted for this year's Journey Prize

The longlist has been announced for this year's $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for best short story by an emerging Canadian writer. (It should be noted how important literary magazines are in bringing these stories to  view.)

• Lisa Alward from Fredericton, NB for "Old Growth" (The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing) 
• Sharon Bala from St. John's, NL for "Butter Tea At Starbucks" (The New Quarterly) and "Reading Week" (PRISM international)
• Patrick Doerksen from Abbotsford, BC for "Leech" ((parenthetical)) 
• Sarah Kabamba from Ottawa, ON for "They Come Crying" (Room magazine) 
• Richard Kelly Kemick from Calgary, AB for "The Most Human Part Of You" (Maisonneuve) and "The Unitarian Church's Annual Young Writer's Short Story Competition" (The New Quarterly)
• Michael Meagher from Halifax, NS for "Used To It" (PRISM international)
• Darlene Naponse from Naughton, ON for "She Is Water" (The Malahat Review)
• Maria Reva from Vancouver, BC for "Subject Winifred" (The Malahat Review)
• Jack Wang from Vancouver, BC for "The Nature Of Things" (The Malahat Review)
• Kelly Ward from Toronto, ON for "A Girl And A Dog On A Friday Night" (Taddle Creek)

A shortlist will be released on September 13, and the winner on November 14, at the Writers' Trust Awards in Toronto. The winner will receive $10,000; Finalists: $1,000. The publications that first published these stories are also contenders for a $2,000 prize made possible by McClelland & Stewart.

The longlist of 12 stories are to be featured in The Journey Prize Stories 29, available in bookstores September 26.