The Journey Prize Stories 27 (27 page)

Deirdre Dore
writes fiction, poetry, and plays. Her work has appeared on stages and in literary journals, including
Geist, Prairie Fire
, and
The Malahat Review
, among others. Her story “Sappers Bridge” won the Western Magazine Award for Fiction. She holds a degree in psychology from Boston University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UBC, where she completed a collection of short fiction. Originally from New York, she now lives in Nakusp, British Columbia, where she is revising her collection of stories and at work on a novella.

Charlie Fiset
is a gold-miner’s daughter from northern Ontario and a recent graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s Creative Writing M.A. program, where she received the David
H. Walker Prize for prose. “Maggie’s Farm” is her first print publication, but her story “If I Ever See the Sun” appears in
The Fiddlehead
’s 2015 summer fiction issue. She is currently at work on a Ph.D. in English at the University of New Brunswick.

K’ari Fisher
was born in Burns Lake, British Columbia, and now lives in Victoria. She has worked as a Zodiac driver for a killer whale research group off the Pacific coast, and for forestry in the Skeena and Bulkley valleys. She is currently completing her final year of an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Victoria, where she is at work on a novel. Her short fiction has appeared in
The Malahat Review
and
Prairie Fire
.

Anna Ling Kaye
reads and writes in Vancouver, where she is completing a short story collection and working on her first novel. A former prose editor at
PRISM international
, she is cofounder of Hapa-palooza Festival and sits on the board of Project Bookmark Canada. She is the editor of
Ricepaper
magazine.

Andrew MacDonald
won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, is shortlisted for a National Magazine Award for Fiction, and is a three-time finalist for the Journey Prize. He lives in Toronto and New England, where he’s finishing a novel.

Lori McNulty
’s fiction was shortlisted for the 2014 Journey Prize. Her work has appeared in
The Fiddlehead
,
The New Quarterly
,
PRISM international
,
The Dalhousie Review
,
Descant
,
and the
Globe and Mail
. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. from McGill University. She’s just completed a short fiction collection and is at work on a novel. Please visit
www.lorimcnulty.ca
.

Madeleine Maillet
is a writer and translator living in Montreal. She is also the fiction editor of
Cosmonauts Avenue
. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she is currently an M.A. candidate in English Literature at Concordia University.

Ron Schafrick
’s short fiction has appeared in
The Dalhousie Review, The Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review, Asia Literary Review, FreeFall, The Toronto Quarterly, The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, Plenitude
, and
Southern Humanities Review
. “Lovely Company” was also published in
Best Gay Stories 2015
. He is the author of
Interpreters
(Oberon Press, 2013) and is at work on a second collection of stories. For nine years he taught ESL in South Korea, but he currently lives in Toronto.

Sarah Meehan Sirk’
s short fiction has appeared in
The New Quarterly, PRISM international, Joyland, Room
, and
Taddle Creek
, where “Moonman” was first published. She studied math and philosophy at the University of Toronto, and was mentored by David Adams Richards at the Humber School for Writers. While not producing national programs for CBC Radio One, she’s completing a collection of short stories and working on her first novel. She lives in Toronto with her young family.

Georgia Wilder
completed a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature. She teaches poetry and academic writing at the University of Toronto and hosts the monthly “Wild Writers” event at the Poetry Jazz Café in Kensington Market. She has been a feature poet at the Art Bar. “Cocoa Divine and the Lightning Police,” first published in
Descant
, is part of a larger cycle of
fin-de-siècle
queer adventures set in discoera Toronto.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING PUBLICATIONS

For more information about the publications that submitted to this year’s competition, The Journey Prize, and
The Journey Prize Stories
, please visit
www.facebook.com/TheJourneyPrize
.

For five decades,
Descant
was a quarterly journal publishing poetry, prose, fiction, interviews, travel pieces, letters, literary criticism, and visual art by new and established contemporary writers and artists from Canada and around the world. Editor: Karen Mulhallen. Managing Editor: Vera DeWaard.
Descant
ceased publication in early 2015.

The Fiddlehead
, Atlantic Canada’s longest-running literary journal, publishes poetry, short fiction, book reviews, and creative non-fiction. It appears four times a year, sponsors a contest for fiction and for poetry that awards a total of $5,000 in prizes, including the $2,000 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and the $2,000 short fiction prize.
The Fiddlehead
welcomes all good writing in English, from anywhere, looking always for that element of freshness and surprise. Editor: Ross Leckie. Submissions and correspondence:
The Fiddlehead
, Campus House, 11 Garland Court, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3. E-mail (queries only):
[email protected]
Website:
www.TheFiddlehead.ca
Twitter:
@TheFiddlehd
You can also find
The Fiddlehead
on Facebook.

Geist
is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture—every issue brings together a sumptuous mix of fact and fiction,
photography and comix, poetry, essays, and reviews, and the weird and wonderful from the world of words. The
Geist
tone is intelligent, plain-talking, inclusive, and offbeat. At the heart of our enterprise is the imaginary country that some of us inhabit from time to time, and which often has something to do with Canada. Editor-in-Chief: Michal Kozlowski. Submissions and correspondence:
Geist
, #210 – 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 1H4. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.geist.com

The Impressment Gang
is very excited to be celebrating its first birthday with its inclusion in this anthology. Our mandate is to be open, critical, and interactive with our community. We are proud of the stimulating and innovative work we publish, and believe that our contributing writers should be compensated deservingly for their art. Inspired by CWILA, we make a conscious effort toward nurturing an inclusive literary community. We welcome impressive new writing. Please find our first issue, in which Charlotte Bondy’s “Renaude” is featured, on our website. Fiction Editor: Pearl Chan. Poetry Editor: Cassie Guinan. Submissions:
[email protected]
Correspondence:
[email protected]
Website:
theimpressmentgang.ca

The Malahat Review
is a quarterly journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by both new and celebrated writers. Summer issues feature the winners of
Malahat
’s Novella and Long Poem prizes, held in alternate years; the fall issues feature the winners of the Far Horizons Award for emerging writers, alternating between poetry and fiction each
year; the winter issues feature the winners of the Constance Rooke Creative Non-fiction Prize; and the spring issues feature winners of the Open Season Awards in all three genres (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction). All issues feature covers by noted Canadian visual artists and include reviews of Canadian books. Editor: John Barton. Assistant Editor: Rhonda Batchelor. Submissions and correspondence:
The Malahat Review
, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Station CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.malahatreview.ca
Twitter:
@malahatreview

Matrix
is a forty-year-old literary journal based in Montreal, Quebec, and housed at Concordia University. Published three times a year,
Matrix
features poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction, book and video game reviews. Editor: Jon Paul Fiorentino. Managing Editor: William Vallieres. Web Editor: Roxanna Bennett. Senior Editor: Jessica Marcotte. Art Director: Tyler Morency. Website:
www.matrixmagazine.org

The New Quarterly
is an award-winning literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, personal essays, interviews, and essays on writing. Now in its thirty-fourth year, the magazine prides itself on its independent take on the Canadian literary scene. Recent issues include The War issue and the summer issue on Visual Storytelling, with more exciting projects in the works. Editor: Pamela Mulloy. Submissions and correspondence:
The New Quarterly
, c/o St. Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G3. E-mail:
[email protected]
,
[email protected]
Website:
www.tnq.ca

Plenitude
, Canada’s queer literary magazine, publishes poetry, creative non-fiction, short fiction, book reviews, interviews, and other articles by both emerging and established LGBTQ writers, including Michael V. Smith, Ashley Little, John Barton, Lydia Kwa, Amber Dawn, and Betsy Warland. Now in its third year, it hosts an annual Emerging Writer Mentorship Award, which pairs one emerging queer Canadian writer with an established writer for one-on-one development of a manuscript.
Plenitude
aims to complicate expressions of queerness through the publication of diverse, sophisticated literary writing, from the very subtle to the brash and unrelenting. Founding Editor: Andrea Routley. Prose Editor: Anna Nobile. Poetry Editor: Matthew Walsh. Reviews Editor: Rachna Contractor. Copy Editor: Kathleen Fraser. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.plenitudemagazine.ca

Prairie Fire
is a quarterly magazine of contemporary Canadian writing that publishes stories, poems, and literary non-fiction by both emerging and established writers.
Prairie Fire
’s editorial mix also occasionally features critical or personal essays. Stories published in
Prairie Fire
have won awards at the National Magazine Awards and the Western Magazine Awards.
Prairie Fire
publishes writing from, and has readers in, all parts of Canada. Editor: Andris Taskans. Fiction Editors: Warren Cariou and Heidi Harms. Submissions and correspondence:
Prairie Fire
, Room 423, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H3. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website:
www.prairiefire.ca

PRISM international
, the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada, was established in 1959 by Earle Birney at the University
of British Columbia. Published four times a year,
PRISM
features short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and translations.
PRISM
editors select work based on originality and quality, and the magazine showcases work from both new and established writers from Canada and around the world.
PRISM
holds three exemplary annual competitions for short fiction, literary non-fiction, and poetry, and awards the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry to an outstanding poet whose work was featured in
PRISM
in the preceding year. Executive Editors: Sierra Skye Gemma, Jennifer Lori, and Clara Kumagai. Prose Editor: Nicole Boyce. Poetry Editor: Rob Taylor. Submissions and correspondence:
PRISM international
, Creative Writing Program, The University of British Columbia, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1. Website:
www.prismmagazine.ca

Taddle Creek
often is asked to define itself and, just as often, it tends to refuse to do so. But it will say this: each issue of the magazine contains a multitude of things between its snazzily illustrated covers, including, but not limited to, fiction, poetry, comics, art, interviews, and feature stories. It’s an odd mix, to be sure, which is why
Taddle Creek
refers to itself somewhat oddly as a “general-interest literary magazine.” Work presented in
Taddle Creek
is humorous, poignant, ephemeral, urban, and rarely overly earnest, though not usually all at once.
Taddle Creek
takes its mission to be the journal for those who detest everything the literary magazine has become in the twenty-first century very seriously. Editor-in-Chief: Conan Tobias. Correspondence:
Taddle Creek
, P.O. Box 611, Stn. P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2Y4. E-mail:
[email protected]
. Website:
taddlecreekmag.com
.