Heading, 2025 Writers Trust awards (Canada). Hilary Weston prize for non-fiction. Winner Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, winner. Image, split screen image. Left side author, female, long dark hair, shown wearing a camouflage jacked over denim button down shirt. The image is outdoors in autumn, background of leafless trees and fading plants. Right side cover image of book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe maps to the times ahead. The cover is made up of blue, green and white pointillist dots suggesting flow of water or a surface of water. A water droplet-like shape, cream in color, positioned near middle holds the title in blue handwritten text. Subtitle Alchemy press by Knoff Canada.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
