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Writers & Books

Each of these authors has benefitted from Writers' Trust awards or programs.

Awards

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

2025

Winner
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Finalists
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief

The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief

Tessa McWatt

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memoir

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memoir

Vinh Nguyen

A Truce That Is Not Peace

A Truce That Is Not Peace

Miriam Toews

Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize

2025

Winner
Bren Simmers

Bren Simmers

Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

2025

Winner
Julie Flett

Julie Flett

Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

2025

Winner
Endling

Endling

Maria Reva

Maria Reva

Finalists
Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand

Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand

Tim Bowling

Simple Creatures

Simple Creatures

Robert McGill

We, the Kindling

We, the Kindling

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Julius Julius

Julius Julius

Aurora Stewart de Peña

Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award

2025

Winner
Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy

Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life

2025

Winner
Sheree Fitch

Sheree Fitch

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

2025

Winner
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity 

Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity 

Raymond B. Blake

Raymond B. Blake

Finalists
The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau 

The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau 

Stephen Maher

Health for All: A Doctor’s Prescription for a Healthier Canada 

Health for All: A Doctor’s Prescription for a Healthier Canada 

Jane Philpott 

The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century 

The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century 

Alasdair Roberts

The Knowing 

The Knowing 

Tanya Talaga

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

2025

Winner: Poetry
Loose Threads

Loose Threads

Dora Prieto

Dora Prieto

Winner: Short Fiction
Tombstone of a Tsaddik

Tombstone of a Tsaddik

Jess Goldman

Jess Goldman

Winner: Creative Nonfiction
White Trucks and Mergansers

White Trucks and Mergansers

Phillip Dwight Morgan

Phillip Dwight Morgan

Finalists: Poetry
Rather Her Clean

Rather Her Clean

Cicely Grace

Prairie Bog

Prairie Bog

Nicole Mae

Finalists: Short Fiction
Three New France Suicides

Three New France Suicides

Alexis Lachaîne

Training the Replacement

Training the Replacement

Hana Mason

Finalists: Creative Nonfiction
Breach

Breach

Graham Slaughter

Where Do Mothers Go

Where Do Mothers Go

Huyền Trân

Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

2025

Finalists
The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians  

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians  

Vass Bednar

and

Denise Hearn

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future

Vince Beiser

And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence

And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence

Pamela Cross

Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy

Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy

Stephen J.A. Ward

Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

2025

Winner
All the Parts We Exile

All the Parts We Exile

Roza Nozari

Roza Nozari

Finalists
How I Bend Into More

How I Bend Into More

Tea Gerbeza

Three Parties

Three Parties

Ziyad Saadi