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Writers & Books
Each of these authors has benefitted from Writers' Trust awards or programs.
Awards
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
2024
Finalists
What I Know About You
Éric Chacour
Translated by
Pablo Strauss
Prairie Edge
Conor Kerr
Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin
Hi, It’s Me
Fawn Parker
2023
Finalists
Learned By Heart
Emma Donoghue
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
A Grandmother Begins the Story
Michelle Porter
The Book of Rain
Thomas Wharton
2022
Finalists
Manam
Rima Elkouri
Querelle of Roberval
Kevin Lambert
Ezra’s Ghosts
Darcy Tamayose
Her First Palestinian
Saeed Teebi
2021
Finalists
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
We Want What We Want
Alix Ohlin
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
August into Winter
Guy Vanderhaeghe
2020
Finalists
The Beguiling
Zsuzsi Gartner
Five Little Indians
Michelle Good
Indians on Vacation
Thomas King
Good Citizens Need Not Fear
Maria Reva
2019
Finalists
Season of Fury and Wonder
Sharon Butala
The Innocents
Michael Crummey
Shut Up You’re Pretty
Téa Mutonji
Dual Citizens
Alix Ohlin
2018
Finalists
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Craig Davidson
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
Beirut Hellfire Society
Rawi Hage
Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
Jen Neale
2017
Finalists
Bad Endings
Carleigh Baker
The Last Neanderthal
Claire Cameron
American War
Omar El Akkad
This Accident of Being Lost
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
2016
Finalists
After James
Michael Helm
The Parcel
Anosh Irani
Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush
Kerry Lee Powell
The Break
Katherena Vermette
2015
Finalists
His Whole Life
Elizabeth Hay
Red Jacket
Pamela Mordecai
Confidence
Russell Smith
The Jaguar’s Children
John Vaillant
2014
Finalists
Pastoral
André Alexis
The Confabulist
Steven Galloway
All Saints
K.D. Miller
Girl Runner
Carrie Snyder
2013
2012
2011
Finalists
The Meagre Tarmac
Clark Blaise
The Beggar's Garden
Michael Christie
Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
The Quiet Twin
Dan Vyleta
2010
Finalists
Practical Jean
Trevor Cole
Cities of Refuge
Michael Helm
Annabel
Kathleen Winter
The Death of Donna Whalen
Michael Winter
2009
Finalists
Fences in Breathing
Nicole Brossard
Generation A
Douglas Coupland
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre
Andrew Steinmetz
2008
Finalists
Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen
Cockroach
Rawi Hage
The Man Game
Lee Henderson
Red Dog, Red Dog
Patrick Lane
2007
Finalists
The Culprits
Robert Hough
Fault Lines
Nancy Huston
Radiance
Shaena Lambert
The Assassin’s Song
M.G. Vassanji
2006
Finalists
The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens
DeNiro’s Game
Rawi Hage
Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Catherine Hanrahan
The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson
2005
Finalists
The Wreckage
Michael Crummey
Radiant City
Lauren B. Davis
Maclean
Allan Donaldson
A Perfect Pledge
Rabindranath Maharaj
2004
Finalists
In the Place of Last Things
Michael Helm
Some Great Thing
Colin McAdam
The Memory Artists
Jeffrey Moore
Muriella Pent
Russell Smith
2003
Finalists
A Hard Witching & Other Stories
Jacqueline Baker
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche
The Romantic
Barbara Gowdy
The Rule of Last Clear Chance
Judith McCormack
2002
2001
Finalists
Ten Good Seconds of Silence
Elizabeth Ruth
Stanley Park
Timothy Taylor
Salamander
Thomas Wharton
2000
Finalists
Choke Hold
Todd Babiak
Play the Monster Blind
Lynn Coady
16 Categories of Desire
Douglas Glover
This All Happened
Michael Winter
1999
Finalists
A History of Forgetting
Caroline Adderson
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Elyse Gasco
Jane
Judy MacDonald
No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod
1998
Finalists
Childhood
André Alexis
The White Bone
Barbara Gowdy
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
1997
Finalists
Small Change
Elizabeth Hay
The Magician's Wife
Brian Moore
Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler
