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Each of these authors has benefitted from Writers' Trust awards or programs.

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Awards
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
Weston International Award
Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize

Programs
WT Amplified Voices
Berton House Writers’ Residency
DC Reid Poets’ Grant
Writers' Trust Rising Stars
Woodcock Fund Grant
Writers’ Trust Mentorship

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Politics and the Pen
Writers' Trust Storytellers Ball
Writers’ Trust Awards
Margaret Laurence Lecture Series

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