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Writers & Books
Each of these authors has benefitted from Writers' Trust awards or programs.
Awards
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
2025
Finalists
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
Raymond B. Blake
The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau
Stephen Maher
The Knowing
Tanya Talaga
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
2025
Winner: Creative Nonfiction
Phillip Dwight Morgan
Finalists: Poetry
Rather Her Clean
Cicely Grace
Prairie Bog
Nicole Mae
Finalists: Short Fiction
Three New France Suicides
Alexis Lachaîne
Finalists: Creative Nonfiction
Breach
Graham Slaughter
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
2025
Finalists
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief
Tessa McWatt
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memoir
Vinh Nguyen
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
2025
Finalists
Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand
Tim Bowling
Simple Creatures
Robert McGill
We, the Kindling
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Endling
Maria Reva
