Journey Prize
The Journey Prize has been founded in 1989 Canadian Literature Prize, which is awarded annually by the publishing house McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story of an aspiring writer who has been published in a Canadian literary magazine. The award was initiated by James A. Michener, who presented his Canadian income from his novel Journey (1988 ) and thus vorprägte the term of price.
The Journey Prize is 10,000 Canadian dollars, significant financial award, which is awarded in Canada on an ambitious writer for a short story or an excerpt of a novel, which is in the writing process.
Furthermore, published the Journey Prize, an annual anthology, The Journey Prize Stories in which all nominated short stories and excerpts will be published again at McClelland and Stewart and enjoy themselves a certain reception. In addition, McClelland & Stewart will award a prize of 2,000 Canadian dollars to that literary magazine, the literary contribution as first published and submitted in the competition. Two other finalists will each receive $ 1,000. The jury is composed of three independent members; the award will be presented during the Writers' Trust Awards event.
The winner of 2000, Timothy Taylor, was the first writer who was able to place alone three short stories on the shortlist within a year.
The existing Danuta Gleed Literary Award since 1998, awarded in contrast to the Journey Prize, the best short story collection of the author and not only the debut of a short story. In addition, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award is independent publisher.