The Writers' Trust of Canada awarded $260,000 to seven Canadian authors at its annual awards gala at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio on ... Read More »
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The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced increased prize amounts for three of its annual literary awards. Starting this year, the Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life and the Vicky Metcalf Award ... Read More »
November 10, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The annual Writers' Trust Gala took place at Toronto's Ritz-Carlton hotel on Nov. 7, fundraising more than $250,000 in support of its author programs and prizes. As part of the black-tie event, B.C. author Eden ... Read More »
B.C. novelist Eden Robinson is the recipient of the 2017 Writers' Trust fellowship, a $50,000 award intended to free authors from financial concerns so they may pursue their creative work. The fellowship was presented at ... Read More »
November 8, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada and McClelland & Stewart have announced that Richard Kelly Kemick, one of three finalists for this year's Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, has been taken out of ... Read More »
The Writers' Trust of Canada has released the shortlist for this year's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, recognizing excellent Canadian fiction with a newly doubled prize purse of $70,000, with the winner receiving $50,000, and ... Read More »
September 27, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada has named the shortlist for the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction, the country's richest literary award for the genre. The shortlisted titles include the debut memoir from ... Read More »
September 20, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced that authors Michael Christie, Christy Ann Conlin, and Tracey Lindberg will serve as the three-person jury for this year's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Now in its 21st year, ... Read More »
August 22, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced that Susan Harada, Arno Kopecky, and Siobhan Roberts will serve as the three-person jury for this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Harada teaches at Carleton University, ... Read More »
August 15, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
This year's longlist for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize – the country's richest prize for a short-story or fiction excerpt by an emerging writer published in a Canadian literary magazine – was announced ... Read More »
July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
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