Introducing the $25K #NancyFlight Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing. The award celebrates editorial excellence & highlights the vital role editors play in shaping a manuscript. The inaugural winner will be named at the #WTAwards in November 2026. writerstrust.com/NancyFlight
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
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
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
The $12K #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers goes to... Roza Nozari for All the Parts We Exile! The prize was founded by Robin Pacific and is supported by the Dayne Ogilvie Endowment Fund, Anuja Varghese, and the Writers’ Trust Prize Fund. Published by Knopf Canada. #WTAwards #canlit
Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.
Julie Flett wins the $40,000 #VickyMetcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Writers’ Trust is extremely grateful to the Metcalf Foundation for generously increasing their longstanding commitment to this award and the Book to Schools program. #WTAwards #canlit
Congratulations to Kim Thúy, winner of the the $25,000 Writers’ Trust #EngelFindley Award, supported by the Estate of Timothy Findley and the Writers’ Trust prize fund. #WTAwards #canlit
Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
CBC Books host and Canada’s @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social champion @mattearoach.bsky.social will host the 2025 #WTAwards! Join us November 13 at CBC Glenn Gould Studio and celebrate one of Canada’s richest awards nights as we announce the winners of 7 literary prizes. 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
Announcing finalists for the 2025 #HilaryWeston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 🏆 Congratulations to:
◢Omar El Akkad
◢Tessa McWatt
◢Vinh Nguyen
◢ @biidaasamose.bsky.social
◢ @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social
$75K winner announced Nov 13 at the #WTAwards bit.ly/4lXZqQk
Three book covers and the heading "2025 Finalists: Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers"
✨ Meet the finalists for the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers!
◢ Tea Gerbeza (How I Bend Into More, @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)
◢ Roza Nozari (All the Parts We Exile, Knopf Canada)
◢ Ziyad Saadi (Three Parties, Hamish Hamilton Canada)
Winner annc't: Nov 13 #WTAwards.
