The Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Winner: $25,000; Finalists: $3,500

The Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize is given for a work of non-fiction that, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrates the highest literary merit.

2008 Finalists

Previous Winners

2008 Taras Grescoe for Bottomfeeder: How To Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
2007 Anna Porter for Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
2006 Dragan Todorovic for The Book of Revenge
2005 John Vaillant for The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2004 Elaine Dewar for The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality
2003 Brian Fawcett for Virtual Clearcut or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown
2002 Jake MacDonald for Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
2001 Clark Blaise for Time Lord
2000 Erna Paris for Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
1999 Modris Eksteins for Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of our Century
1998 Rudy Wiebe & Yvonne Johnson for Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
1997 Ernest Hillen for Small Mercies: A Boy After War

Guidelines (click to download PDF)
Prize History (click to download PDF)