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Writers & Books
Each of these authors has benefitted from Writers' Trust awards or programs.
Awards
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
2024
Finalists: Poetry
Balcony buffalo
Ashleigh A. Allen
Hiraeth
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Finalists: Short Fiction
Our Rez Anomaly
Henry Heavyshield
ON VENLAFAXINE AND GHOSTS
Reid Kerr Keller
2023
Finalists: Poetry
Notes on the Non-Place
Dora Prieto
Finalists: Short Fiction
Mama’s Lullabies
Vincent Anioke
Triggered
Zilla Jones
2022
Finalists: Poetry
My Life, Delimited
Eimear Laffan
Finalists: Short Fiction
Ectopia Cordis
Jen Batler
Wild Girls
Emily Paskevics
2021
Finalists: Poetry
Selections from No One Knows Us There
Jessica Bebenek
Finalists: Short Fiction
Bright Fish, Dead Bird
Carolyn Chung
Mass Effect
Joshua Wales
2020
Winner: Poetry
Alexa Winik
Winner: Short Fiction
Leah Mol
Finalists: Poetry
c:ode
nina jane drystek
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Selection from [CA$H4GOLD]
Zoe Imani Sharpe
Finalists: Short Fiction
This Hard Easy Life
Jamaluddin Aram
Palestinian Still Life
Omer Friedlander
2019
Your Public Body
Rebecca Salazar
Unorganized Territory
Ellie Sawatzky
2018
Kingdom Come
Sarah Christina Brown
Adjacent Rooms
Khalida Hassan
2017
2016
2015
Finalists
Roads Home
Chuqiao Yang
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Finalists
The Minnow and Other Poems
Michael Johnson
How the Tiklaalik Came Onto Land and Other Poems
Jeff Latosik
2008
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