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Journey Prize
The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story published by an emerging writer in a Canadian literary magazine. The award was endowed by James A. Michener, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel ''Journey''. The winner receives , making it the largest monetary award given in Canada to an up-and-coming writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress. The prize's winner in 2000, Timothy Taylor, was the first writer ever to have three stories nominated for the award in the same year."The patter of little stories". ''Vancouver Sun'', December 2, 2000. The Journey Prize also publishes an annual anthology of the year's longlisted short stories. Two writers, Andrew MacDonald and David Bergen, have both had a record four total stories selected for inclusion in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McClelland And Stewart
McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is owned by Random House of Canada, Penguin Random House of Canada, a branch of Penguin Random House, the international book publishing division of German media giant Bertelsmann. History It was founded in 1906 as McClelland and Goodchild by John McClelland and Frederick Goodchild, both originally employed with the "Methodist Book Room" which was in 1919 to become the Ryerson Press. In December 1913 George Stewart, who had also worked at the Methodist Book Room, joined the company, and the name of the firm was changed to McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart Limited. When Goodchild left to form his own company in 1918, the company's name was changed to McClelland and Stewart Limited, now sometimes shortened to M&S. The first known imprint of the press is John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller's ''Random Reminiscences of Men and Events.'' In the earliest years, M&S concentrated primarily on exclusive distribution and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Keating
Diane Keating is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her poetry collection ''No Birds or Flowers'', which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards. She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s, as well as the career anthology ''The Year One: New and Selected Poems'' in 2001. In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in the Journey Prize anthology, and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters". Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992 but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was educated at the University of Manitoba. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Maddocks
Rick Maddocks (born 1970) is a Canadian author and singer/songwriter."Adam Lewis Schroeder: Rick Maddocks serves up a tasty dirge" '''', July 30, 2010. Born in Wales, he moved to Canada with his family in the early 1980s. His short story collection ''Sputnik Diner'' (Random House, 2002) was nominated for the . Its first story, "Plane People", won '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danuta Gleed
Danuta Gleed (1946 – 11 December 1996) was a Kenyan-born Canadians, Canadian writer. Biography She was born in Kenya in a British camp for displaced persons where she spent her early childhood. In 1958, her family moved to England. At the time of her death, she was living in Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She studied writing with Frances Itani, Audrey Thomas, Bryan Moon, and Rita Donovan. Many of her stories drew on her Polish background. Her short stories appeared in many literary journals and won several competitions. Her story "Bones" was nominated for the 1996 Journey Prize. Death and legacy Gleed died 11 December 1996. A collection, ''One of the Chosen,'' was published posthumously by BuschekBooks in 1997. In the same year, John Gleed endowed the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in honour of his late wife. The annual award recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English. References *Selected with Olive Senior. ''The Journey Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elyse Gasco
Elyse Gasco (born 1967) is a Canadian fiction writer. She is a recipient of the Journey Prize, QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and the QSPELL/FEWQ First Book Award, Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree. The title story of her 1999 debut collection, ''Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?'' (1999), won the 1996 Journey Prize. The book won the QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the QSPELL/FEWQ First Book Award, and was shortlisted for a 1999 Governor General's Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader's Choice Award. It was also a designated a ''New York Times'' Notable Book in 1999. The collection has since been translated into French by Ivan Steenhout as ''Bye-bye, bébé'' (2001). Gasco has also adapted the stories for the stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hay (novelist)
Elizabeth Grace Hay (born October 22, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her 2007 novel ''Late Nights on Air'' won the Giller Prize. Her first novel ''A Student of Weather'' (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award. She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, for her short-story collection ''Small Change'' in 1997 Governor General's Awards, 1997 and her novel ''Garbo Laughs'' in 2003 Governor General's Awards, 2003. ''His Whole Life'' (2015) was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Hay's memoir about the last years of her parents' lives, ''All Things Consoled'', won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work — including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. Life Hay was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Goliger
Gabriella Goliger (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was co-winner of the Journey Prize in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published three books: ''Song of Ascent'' in 2001, ''Girl Unwrapped'' in 2010, which won the Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and ''Eva Salomon's War'', which was published in 2018 and received praise from novelists Joan Thomas and Francis Itani."Biography" Gabriella Goliger Official Website, October 15, 2018. She is Jewish. Goliger also won the Prism International Award in 1993, and was a finalist for the again in 1995. She has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. Life and work Early life Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950. Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns. Education In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Windley
Carol Ann Windley (born 18 June 1947) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. Biography Carol Ann Windley was born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta. Her debut short story collection, ''Visible Light'' (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She followed in 1998 with her first novel, ''Breathing Underwater''. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection ''Home Schooling'' (2006). That book was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Windley has also taught creative writing at Malaspina University-College Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and earlier as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Endicott
Marina Endicott (born September 14, 1958) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her novel, ''Good to a Fault'', won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. Her next, ''The Little Shadows'', was long-listed for the Giller and short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award. ''Close to Hugh'', was long-listed for the Giller Prize and named one of CBC's Best Books of 2015. Her latest, ''The Difference'', won the City of Edmonton Robert Kroetsch prize. It was published in the US by W.W. Norton as ''The Voyage of the Morning Light'' in June 2020. Personal life Endicott was born in Golden, British Columbia in 1958, the daughter of an Anglican priest; she grew up in Vancouver, Halifax and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Ontario. She worked as an actor before moving to London, England, where she began to write fiction. Returning to Canada in 1984, she went west to Saskatoon and worked in theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayla Reid
Gayla Reid (born 12 May 1945) is an Australian-born Canadian writer. Biography Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Remaining in Canada, she was active in the country's feminist movement, editing the newspaper '' Kinesis'' and the literary journal '' Room of One's Own'' and teaching women's studies at Vancouver Community College. She began publishing fiction in the early 1990s, winning the Journey Prize in 1993 for her short story "Sister Doyle's Men". In 1994, she published her first short story collection, ''To Be There With You'', which was a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995. ''All the Seas of the World'' and ''Closer Apart'' were finalists for the Ethel Wilson fiction prize in 2001 and 2002. ''Come from Afar'' was published to critical acclaim in 2011. According to jury citation, Gayla Reid stands out for her stunningly beautif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal'' on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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