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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. 

 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:

A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
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Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award:
Lisa Moore

Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life:
Andrew Nikiforuk

Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People:
Barbara Reid

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 Naban Ruthnum for Cinema Rex published in The Malahat Review.

Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award:
This award celebrates individuals who have furthered the aims of the Writers' Trust.
This year it was awarded to Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart.

These awards, also administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada were announced earlier this year.

Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction:

The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith
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Dayne Ogilvie Prize:
This year's recipient is C.E. Gatchalian author of Falling in Time and Motifs & Repetitions and Other Plays.  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".

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers:
Presented to a writer under 35 years of age who has not yet published a book, this year's winner was poet Laura Clarke.

The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing:

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio