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Writers’ Trust reveals Weston Prize shortlist

The five finalists for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for non-fiction were announced this morning at a press conference in Toronto. The $60,000 award, the richest prize for Canadian non-fiction, garnered 92 submissions ... Read More »

September 17, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Writers’ Trust launches $25,000 poetry prize

By Stuart Woods

Canadian poets are being feted with a new prize that will recognize a writer for his or her exceptional body of work. The $25,000 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Latner Family Foundation, ... Read More »

April 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Politics and the Pen gala

By Julie Baldassi

Politicians and writers gathered at the Fairmont ChÃ¢teau Laurier in Ottawa last week for the black-tie Politics and the Pen gala, a fundraiser for The Writers' Trust of Canada. Maclean's journalist Paul Wells was awarded the $25,000 ... Read More »

April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Alice Munro honoured by Royal Canadian Mint

By Julie Baldassi

The Royal Canadian Mint has offered up a token of its appreciation for Canada's best short story writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro with the release of a collector's edition $5 silver ... Read More »

March 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces next Berton House writers-in-residence

By Emma Renda

The Writers' Trust of Canada has named the next set of Berton House writers-in-residence. The residency invites writers to spend three months at Pierre Berton's childhood home in Dawson City, Yukon. The writers selected are ... Read More »

February 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing shortlist announced

By Emma Renda

The Writers' Trust of Canada has released the shortlist for the 14th Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Former Globe and Mail foreign correspondent Graeme Smith is up for yet another honour. His memoir, The ... Read More »

February 4, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

McAdam, Moore both among winners at Writers’ Trust awards

By Julie Baldassi

Colin McAdam has won the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada), which tells the parallel stories of a couple who adopt a chimpanzee named Looee and the primates at ... Read More »

November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario hosted the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction Tuesday night, as Graeme Smith accepted the award for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now (Knopf Canada), a memoir that documents ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Marcello Di Cintio’s Walls wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

By Natalie Sequeira

The Writers' Trust of Canada has named Marcello Di Cintio's Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (Goose Lane Editions) the winner of this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Di Cintio received the $25,000 prize at ... Read More »

March 7, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Black ties, authors, and trivia at the Writers’ Trust gala

By Sue Carter

After surviving two weeks of award festivities, the Writers' Trust of Canada is still in a party mood. Tonight is the organization's fundraising gala, held at the posh Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. In a ... Read More »

November 15, 2012 | Filed under: Events

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