The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers

SHARON BALA lives in St. John's where she is a member of The Port Authority writing group. Her short story Butter Tea at Starbucks won the prestigious Writers' Trust / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize in 2017. Her debut novel, The Boat People, has been longlisted for CBC's 2018 Canada Reads competition. Please visit SharonBala.com.



KERRY CLARE is a National Magazine Award-nominated writer, editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood, and author of the novel Mitzi Bytes. She's editor of the Canadian books website 49thShelf.com, and has been writing about books and reading on her blog, Pickle Me This, for more than a decade.



ZOEY LEIGH PETERSON was born in England, grew up in the United States, and has spent most of her adult life in Canada. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus, EVENT, Grain, PRISM international and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award. Her debut novel, Next Year, For Sure, was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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