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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Submissions are open for the 2026 RBC #BronwenWallace Award 📣 Send us your unpublished poetry, short fiction & creative nonfiction to be considered for the $10K award. No submission fee. Submissions will close December 2 at 11:59PM PST. Find details at writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace

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

Deeply honored! Congrats to my fellow finalists.

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