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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
