Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards Announced
The Writers' Trust of Canada was formed in 1976 by a group of Canadian authors. The non-profit organization administers a number of literary awards and grants for writers.
On November 1, 6 of these awards were announced.
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Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award:
Wayne Johnston
Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life:
David Adams Richards
Vicky Metcalf Award:
Iain Lawrence
The Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize:
This prize is presented to the author of a short story published in a Canadian literary journal. This year's winner was Miranda Hill for Petitions to Saint Chronic published in The Dalhousie Review.
Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award:
This award celebrates individuals who have furthered the aims of the Writers' Trust.
Alma Lee the founding Executive Director of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She also spent 17 years as the Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival.
These awards, also administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada were announced earlier in 2011.
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Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction:
Mordecai: The Life and Times by Charles Foran
Dayne Ogilvie Grant:
This year's recipient is Farzana Doctor, author of Stealing Nasreen and Six Metres of Pavement. This grant is given annually to "an emerging gay or lesbian writer who has demonstrated literary promise through a body of work of exceptional quality".
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The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing:
The Ghosts of Europe: Journey's Through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future by Anna Porter
RBC Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award:
Presented to a writer under 35 years of age who has not yet published a book, this year's winner was poet Garth Martens.
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