Awards - Writers' Trust of Canada

The Writers' Trust of Canada presents 10 annual prizes to writers at various stages of their careers working in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's literature. In total, winners receive $196,000, finalists receive $43,000, and an additional $60,150 is given to jurors.

Writer Success Stories

Read what writers have to say about the Writers' Trust literary awards and what they have meant to their careers.

Prize GuidelinesUpcoming Deadlines

2011 | 2012

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

First Deadline: April 4, 2012 for books published October  2011-April 2012
Download the prize entry form.
 

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 

First Deadline: May 2, 2012 for books published January-May 2012
Download the prize entry form.

Recommended Reading List

Check out our Recommended Reading list selected this month by Caroline Adderson.

Read her Recommendations.

 

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