The Big Fix is shortlisted for the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy! Makes the endless hours of agonizing over every word worth it. Helps to have a great co-author: @vassb.bsky.social ! www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Announcing finalists for the 2025 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy — congratulations to: ◢ @vincebeiser.bsky.social ◢ @vassb.bsky.social & @denisehearn.bsky.social ◢ Pamela Cross ◢ Stephen J.A. Ward $70K winner announced Nov 25 at a live event in Toronto bit.ly/4g8wCDv

Thoughtful debate happens when all sides are well-read 📚 Jurors Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis, and Scott Young selected this year’s #BalsilliePrize finalists from 58 titles representing 35 Canadian publishing imprints. 👀Shortlist announced Oct 1 — stay tuned! bit.ly/4g8wCDv

Congratulations to Raymond B. Blake, author of "Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity" and winner of the 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing! Thank you to @writerstrust.bsky.social for the honour.

Congratulations to Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner Raymond Blake for Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity. Important book from a great scholar.

Raymond B. Blake wins 2025 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing! Sponsored by CN, the prize was awarded at the Politics & the Pen fundraiser in support of WT. To mark its 25th year anniversary, it was increased from $25K to $40K. writerstrust.com/ShaughnessyCohen @ubcpress.bsky.social

Video now available! 2025 Weston International Award laureate #LeslieJamison on the art of storytelling & how narratives shape our world. 📺Watch in full: youtu.be/5Ulj21AkJxg?... Featuring Ali Hassan (@standupali.bsky.social) & Marni Jackson. Thanks to The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation.

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 #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

Awarding excellence in nonfiction & celebrating 15 years of the #HilaryWeston Prize. 🏆 Meet the 2025 jury: ◢ Matthew R. Morris ◢ Lorri Neilsen Glenn @lorri.bsky.social ◢ Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social ‬ Finalist announcement on Wednesday! 👉https://bit.ly/4lXZqQk

✨ 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.

📚Celebrating Canada's best debut books by #LGBTQ2S+ writers! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Meet the 2025 #DayneOgilvie Prize jury: ▪️Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay ▪️Darrin Hagen ▪️Janika Oza ✨ Finalists announced tomorrow! 👉writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvie #canlit #diversecanlit

We’re excited to announce that Ali Hassan will host An Evening With #LeslieJamison on Sept.15 at @romtoronto.bsky.social! Featuring Marni Jackson. Sponsored by #PwC_Canada 🎟️ Get tickets: westoninternationalaward.com/event #NonfictionWriting #WestonPrizes #WIAward #WestonInternationalAward

Listen now! Volume up! 🔊 2025 RBC #BronwenWallace winners and finalists audiobooks are available on Apple Books. Hear their poems, stories, and nonfiction come alive at apple.co/bronwenwallace. Thank you to Apple Books, RBC, and Penguin Random House Canada for supporting this project. #CanLit

Need a summer reading recommendation? Sheung_King, author of #BatshitSeven, stopped by the office and we couldn't resist asking what he's reading! Check out his recommendation for The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross 📖@sarabandebooks

We are deeply saddened by the passing of The Hon. Hilary M. Weston, C.M., C.V.O., O.Ont.—a visionary patron of the arts, and a tireless supporter of Canadian nonfiction writing. Her legacy through the #WestonPrizes will continue to inspire. She will be profoundly missed.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! We're now accepting submissions for the 2026 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing! The $25k prize is sponsored by CN & recognizes an exceptional Canadian #nonfiction book. Submit by Sept. 10, Nov. 5 or Jan. 7. Visit www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaug...

Congratulations to Vicky Metcalf Award recipients Marianne Dubuc (2020) and Elise Gravel (2022) for being appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30—one of the country's highest civilian honours!

Congratulations to Writers' Trust alums #MiriamToews and #LouiseHalfe for being appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest honours, by Gov. Gen Mary Simon on June 30. #OrderofCanada

We’re halfway there ♪ WT has your essential summer reading list covered with recommendations from our recent prize and program honourees. Coast into the long weekend with a new book (or bookstack) and enjoy all the season has to offer ☀️ writerstrust.com/recommended-reading/2025-summer

The Weston International Award honours career achievement of an international author for a body of nonfiction work and is a companion prize to the Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction. Learn about how the #WestonPrizes support writers: westoninternationalaward.com/about/

Join us in Toronto on Monday, September 15 at the @romtoronto.bsky.social for a flagship literary event with 2025 #WestonInternationalAward laureate, Leslie Jamison. Purchase your tickets now: westoninternationalaward.com/event/ Event recording to follow.

Congratulations to 2025 Weston International Award winner Leslie Jamison. “If nonfiction at its best pursues both truth and beauty, this author demonstrates the art of writing out of our lives at the highest level.” — #WestonInternationalAward Canadian jury westoninternationalaward.com/2025-award/

What a great Readers' Circle event last night! WT supporters mean the world to us & their contributions help make Canada one of the best places in the world to be a writer. Special thanks to #RisingStars Paola Ferrante, @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social, Téa Mutonji, Terese Mason Pierre & BMO.

Announcing the inaugural winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for creative nonfiction: Phillip Dwight Morgan has won for his work, White Trucks and Mergansers. Read & listen on Apple Books at apple.co/bronwenwallace or download it here: bit.ly/4jt2O4s

Congratulations to Jess Goldman, winner of the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for short fiction for their work, Tombstone of a Tsaddik. Read & listen on Apple Books at apple.co/bronwenwallace or download it here: bit.ly/4jt2O4s

Dora Prieto is the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award poetry winner for her collection, “Loose Threads.” Read & listen on Apple Books at apple.co/bronwenwallace or download it here: bit.ly/4jt2O4s

Phillip Dwight Morgan wins the 2025 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers in #CreativeNonfiction for “White Trucks and Mergansers”! #CanLit

Jess Goldman wins the 2025 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers in #ShortFiction for “Tombstone of a Tsaddik”! #CanLit

Dora Prieto wins the 2025 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers in #Poetry for “Loose Threads”! #CanLit

2025 Bronwen Wallace Award shortlist interviews: Cicely Grace, Dora Prieto + Nicole Mae, / @writerstrust.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

Calling all poets 🖊️ The DC Reid Poets’ Grant is accepting applications from Canadian poets of modest means. Grants of $5K will anonymously be delivered to poets to help fund their writing. Deadline to apply October 6, 2025. bit.ly/44PGO01

Congratulations to this year's #BertonHouse writers-in-residence! ◢ Jesse Keith Butler ◢ Cody Caetano ◢ Krista Foss ◢ Helen Knott ◢ Angela Long ◢ Rebecca Thomas Learn more about this year’s residents here: bit.ly/4k3schN #CanLit #PierreBerton

Immense thanks to Darcy Tara McDiarmid, Eliza Robertson & Paul Seesequasis who selected this year’s #BertonHouse writers-in-residence. 6 Canadian authors will travel to #DawsonCity to live and work for 2 months in the childhood home of Canadian author and WT co-founder, #PierreBerton. bit.ly/4k3schN

Congratulations to #MichaelCrummey on receiving the 2025 @dublinlitaward.bsky.social! Crummey received the RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers in 1994, and the #WritersTrust Engel Findley Award in 2007. 👏🏆

Congratulations to @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social winner Canisia Lubrin! "She will push us and break us in ways that will continue to let the light in," said author Anosh Irani of the 2020 Writers' Trust #RisingStar, sponsored by #BMO. carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-winner

We are thrilled to see @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social candidate Phillip Dwight Morgan shortlisted for @writerstrust.bsky.social RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction! Congratulations, Phill!

Huge congratulations, Phill! Congrats, all!

Big congrats to our arts & culture editor Phillip Dwight Morgan!! You read all the submissions on the Writers' Trust page.

Introducing the 2025 #CreativeNonfiction finalists for the @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers: ◣ Huyền Trân ◥ Phillip Dwight Morgan ◢ Graham Slaughter Congratulations! writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace #canlit

Introducing the 2025 #ShortFiction finalists for the @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers: ◣ Jess Goldman ◥ Alexis Lachaîne ◢ Hana Mason Congratulations! writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace #canlit

Introducing the 2025 #poetry finalists for the @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers: ◣ Cicely Grace ◥ Nicole Mae ◢ Dora Prieto @dorajprieto Congratulations! writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace #canlit

Tomorrow!Find out the 2025 RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers finalists! writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace Thanks to our jurors #DallasHunt #MattRader sannawani.bsky.social #JeanMarcAhSen #BaharanBaniahmadi @shashibhat.bsky.social omarmouallem.bsky.social #AlessandraNaccarato #LindsayWong

Nominate a developing #Canadianwriter who is poised to produce exceptional and enduring creative work (or submit yourself for consideration!) to the 2026 #WTRisingStars before Monday, Oct 6 at midnight PT Visit writerstrust.com/RisingStars for eligibility details. #canlit

"Launched in 2019, the #WTRisingStars program is an initiative supporting Canadian writers early in their careers. Each year, five talented emerging writers are chosen and mentored by prominent Canadian authors." Read more via CBC Books: www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...

The future of #canlit is looking bright ✨Congrats to our 2025 #WTRisingStars✨writerstrust.com/RisingStars ◢ Allison Graves (Michael Crummey) ◥ Zilla Jones (Charlotte Gill) ◣ Dilan Qadir (Rabindranath Maharaj) ◤ Liz Stewart (@caseyplett.bsky.social) ◤ @isabellawangbc.bsky.social (Joseph Dandurand)

📚 Big news! #UofRegina's Dr. Raymond Blake is a finalist for @writerstrust.bsky.social's 2025 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing! His book, Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity, is shortlisted for this national honour. 🇨🇦 Congratulations, Dr. Blake!👏

📘 About "Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of National Identity": www.ubcpress.ca/canadas-prim... 🏆 About the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize: www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaug...