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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
Jurors

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

Saeed Teebi

Joan Thomas
2023
Jurors

francesca ekwuyasi
Alix Hawley

M.G. Vassanji
2022
Jurors

David Bergen

Norma Dunning

Andrew Forbes
2021
Jurors

Rebecca Fisseha

Michelle Good

Steven Price
2020
Jurors

Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Waubgeshig Rice

Yasuko Thanh
2019
Jurors

Dennis Bock

Michael Kaan

Suzette Mayr
2018
Jurors

Ann Y. K. Choi

Mireille Silcoff

Robert Wiersema
2017
Jurors

Michael Christie

Christy Ann Conlin

Tracey Lindberg
2016
Jurors

Lauren B. Davis

Trevor Ferguson

Pasha Malla
2015
Jurors

Aislinn Hunter

Shani Mootoo

Richard Wagamese
2014
Jurors

Neil Bissoondath

Helen Humphreys

George Murray
2013
Jurors

Caroline Adderson

Alison Pick

Miguel Syjuco
2012
Jurors

Lynn Coady

Esi Edugyan

Drew Hayden Taylor
2011
Jurors

Emma Donoghue

Rabindranath Maharaj

Margaret Sweatman
2010
Jurors

Lisa Moore

Andrew Pyper

Eden Robinson
2009
Jurors

Marina Endicott

Miriam Toews

R.M. Vaughan
2008
Jurors

Lawrence Hill

Annabel Lyon

Heather O’Neill
2007
Jurors

Barry Gough

Kim Moritsugu
Madeleine Thien
2006
Jurors

Karen Connelly

Jeffrey Moore

Anna Porter
2005
Jurors

Anita Rau Badami

Lewis DeSoto

Mary Swan
2004
Jurors

Sylvia Fraser

Zsuzsi Gartner

Michael Redhill
2003
Jurors

Kevin Chong

Lisa Moore

Diane Schoemperlen
2002
Jurors

Joan Barfoot

Brian Brett

Sarah Sheard
2001
Jurors

Lesley Choyce

Eliza Clark

Olive Senior
2000
Jurors

Cynthia Holz

Janice Kulyk Keefer

Peter Oliva
1999
Jurors

Lynn Coady

Sylvia Fraser

Eric Wright
1998
Jurors

Joan Clark

Austin Clarke

Trevor Ferguson
1997
Jurors

Matt Cohen

Elisabeth Harvor
