Maria Reva is the 2025 winner of the $70,000 #AtwoodGibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Endling, published by Knopf Canada. This year's prize purse is increased from $60,000 to $70,000 this year with generous support from the Balsillie Family Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
“Fast-paced, strange, perky, and uncanny as the contemporary world, @aurorasdp.bsky.social’s novel creates a knowing magic realist world, rife with the misogyny and surrealism of late-stage capitalism & its corporations.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“Endling’s brilliance lies in Maria Reva’s willingness to yank on the dangling thread of the unanswerable, unraveling the whole fiction genre, only to masterfully stitch it back together again.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“@jobitek.bsky.social writes with mastery of lives forged in war; a testament to the strength of these uncompromising and empowering witnesses, smouldering with life and hard-won possibility.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“Sometimes it feels like modern humans are simple creatures who have found themselves in complex stories that seem strange, ridiculous, and emotional; and yet they are clearly the stories of our own times.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury @robertmcgill.bsky.social writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“With startling imagery, evocative language and a gothic touch, Tim Bowling’s stories shift and unsettle as if they — like their characters — are living, breathing beings searching for understanding and a way to be.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
Announcing finalists for the 2025 #AtwoodGibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize — congratulations to:
◢ Tim Bowling
◢ @robertmcgill.bsky.social
◢ @jobitek.bsky.social
◢ Maria Reva
◢ @aurorasdp.bsky.social
$70K winner announced Nov 13 at the #WTAwards bit.ly/4g8cnWg #canlit #diversecanlit
Awarding the best Canadian novels & short stories 🏅 Meet the 2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize jury:
◢ @garybarwin.bsky.social
◢ #AliBryan
◢ #JasmineSealy
Finalists will be announced Wednesday! For award details visit: bit.ly/4g8cnWg
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