The 2025 Giller Prize jury is comprised of (clockwise from top right): Jordan Abel, jury chair Dionne Irving (Myriam Nicodemus), Loghan Paylor (Michael Paylor), Aaron Tucker, and Deepa Rajagopalan (Ema Suvajac).

The Giller Prize has announced its jury for the 2025 prize.

Author and creative writing professor Dionne Irving will chair the jury for this year’s prize. She was shortlisted for the Giller in 2023 for her short story collection The Islands. Irving is joined on the jury by fellow writers Jordan Abel, Loghan Paylor, Aaron Tucker, and Deepa Rajagopalan, whose short story collection Peacocks of Instagram was a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize.

Submissions are now open for this year’s prize. The longlist will be announced in mid-September, with a shortlist announcement to follow in October, and the winner to be named at a ceremony in Toronto in November.

The jury this year is comprised solely of Canadian writers. The two international members of last year’s jury resigned in July during ongoing controversy over prize sponsor Scotiabank’s investment in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.