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Anne-Marie Turza is the inaugural winner of the Writers’ Trust Board Fellowship. The #WTFellowship rewards one writer annually with $50K and a residency at the @banffcentre.bsky.social for Arts and Creativity. Turza’s win marks the start of WT’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
Which national bestseller does author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald think every Canadian should read? Find out in our new series where celebrated Canadian writers share the books that shaped them. Join us in celebrating 50 years of Canadian literature. From writers, to readers. #WT50
January 21, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Which national bestseller does author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald think every Canadian should read? Find out in our new series where celebrated Canadian writers share the books that shaped them. Join us in celebrating 50 years of Canadian literature. From writers, to readers. #WT50
Recapping the 2026 Writers’ Trust Storytellers Ball. Thank you to all our supporters 🍁📚
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Recapping the 2026 Writers’ Trust Storytellers Ball. Thank you to all our supporters 🍁📚
Thank you to all of our supporters of the 2026 Storytellers Ball. WT is deeply grateful for your commitment to supporting and celebrating Canadian writers and their work, and we look forward to welcoming you at future WT events.
January 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Thank you to all of our supporters of the 2026 Storytellers Ball. WT is deeply grateful for your commitment to supporting and celebrating Canadian writers and their work, and we look forward to welcoming you at future WT events.
Anne-Marie Turza is the inaugural winner of the Writers’ Trust Board Fellowship. The #WTFellowship rewards one writer annually with $50K and a residency at the @banffcentre.bsky.social for Arts and Creativity. Turza’s win marks the start of WT’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Anne-Marie Turza is the inaugural winner of the Writers’ Trust Board Fellowship. The #WTFellowship rewards one writer annually with $50K and a residency at the @banffcentre.bsky.social for Arts and Creativity. Turza’s win marks the start of WT’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Writers’ Trust of Canada. For fifty years, we’ve supported Canadian writers across genres and at every stage of their career.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Writers’ Trust of Canada. For fifty years, we’ve supported Canadian writers across genres and at every stage of their career.
Hal Wake was committed to improving the lives of Canadian writers for 40 years through his work at Vancouver Writers’ Fest and as a volunteer for many literary organizations including ours.
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Hal Wake was committed to improving the lives of Canadian writers for 40 years through his work at Vancouver Writers’ Fest and as a volunteer for many literary organizations including ours.
Congratulations to @vincebeiser.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy for his book Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Beiser was selected by a jury composed of Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis & Scott Young.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Congratulations to @vincebeiser.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy for his book Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Beiser was selected by a jury composed of Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis & Scott Young.
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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
“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
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“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
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“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
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“@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
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“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
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“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
“Years after the suicides of both her father and her sister, @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social writes into the silence to create an engrossing maze of associative fragments that grapple with the extraordinary in the everyday.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“Years after the suicides of both her father and her sister, @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social writes into the silence to create an engrossing maze of associative fragments that grapple with the extraordinary in the everyday.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“In her radical exploration of water, @biidaasamose.bsky.social topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“In her radical exploration of water, @biidaasamose.bsky.social topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“Combining imagination and narrative, this complex story embodies shadows of absence & love, offering reconstructions of life that provide solace & revelation in the possibility of remembrance & fantasy.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury #VinhNguyen @harpercollins.bsky.social writerstrust.com/WTAwards
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Combining imagination and narrative, this complex story embodies shadows of absence & love, offering reconstructions of life that provide solace & revelation in the possibility of remembrance & fantasy.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury #VinhNguyen @harpercollins.bsky.social writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“With incredible detail and sharp emotional insight, Tessa McWatt crafts a story that is both intimate and universal, guiding readers through the complexities of memory, belonging, and loss alongside an environment in crisis.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“With incredible detail and sharp emotional insight, Tessa McWatt crafts a story that is both intimate and universal, guiding readers through the complexities of memory, belonging, and loss alongside an environment in crisis.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
“Writing with an elegant blend of emotional clarity and intellectual layering, Omar El Akkad takes a bold stance on the conduits of historical memory and moral posturing.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Writing with an elegant blend of emotional clarity and intellectual layering, Omar El Akkad takes a bold stance on the conduits of historical memory and moral posturing.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards
Go @torontobluejays.bsky.social! The Writers’ Trust team is rooting for you. 💙🍁 #WANTITALL
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Go @torontobluejays.bsky.social! The Writers’ Trust team is rooting for you. 💙🍁 #WANTITALL