Writers' Trust@writerstrust

On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. #ShaughnessyCohen #BronwenWallace #DayneOgilvie #AtwoodGibson #WestonPrizes #BalsilliePrize

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Joined March 2010
WT aims to support Canadian writers of all backgrounds & strives to evolve as writers' needs change. We're proud to have partners who want to see #CanLit thrive. The @RBC #BronwenWallace Award will now be open to #emergingwriters of any age. Thank you for the important feedback!
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WINNER: Christina Sharpe takes home the 2023 Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book, Ordinary Notes, inviting the reader in with tenderness, bravery, and razor-sharp poetic language. writerstrust.com/nonfiction #WTAwards
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Announcing @TanyaTalaga as the winner of the $25,000 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize; #SevenFallenFeathers called “a document of our times,” named best political book of 2017 bit.ly/2I4T6sf #cdnpoli #polipen #FNMI #Indigenouslit #canlit
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Announcing the 2022 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize shortlist ◥ The Two Michaels by Mike Blanchfield & Fen Osler Hampson China Unbound by Joanna Chiu Flora! by Flora MacDonald & Geoffrey Stevens The Next Age of Uncertainty by Stephen Poloz "Indian" in the Cabinet by Jody Wilson-Raybould
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We've joined forces with @TWUC & @RBC to launch the Canadian Writers’ Emergency Relief Fund, supporting professional authors financially affected by the #COVID19 health crisis. The #WriterReliefFund will distribute grants in amounts of $1,500 - writerstrust.com/ReliefFund #canlit
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Joanna Chiu @joannachiu wins the 2022 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing. Congratulations, Joanna! Well-deserved!
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And the $50,000 #WTfellow is #EdenRobinson! #canlit #WTGala #FNMI
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Announcing the $60,000 #WestonPrize finalists: Alicia Elliott @WordsandGuitar #AMindSpreadOutontheGround, Anna Mehler Paperny @amp6 #HelloIWanttoDiePleaseFixMe, @TanyaTalaga #AllOurRelations, @AyeletTsabari #TheArtofLeaving & @JennyHeijun Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
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And our top prize for fiction goes to... #KatherenaVermette wins the $60,000 #AtwoodGibson WT Fiction Prize for her novel, The Strangers. "Vermette offers up a beautiful, raw testament to those living on the margins." writerstrust.com/fiction #WTAwards #IndigenousLit #canlit
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Congratulations to @RobGMacfarlane, inaugural winner of the $75,000 Weston International Award! Writing about about humans, landscapes, & the living world, the #WIAward winner is at the fore of contemporary writers seeking new understandings of relations between people & nature.
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Announcing the 2019 Writers' Trust Fellowship recipient: Montreal writer Heather O'Neill @lethal_heroine receives $50,000 to provide a window in which she can work with as much creative freedom as possible 🥂📚🎉#WTFellow #canlit
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Just announced: John Lorinc wins the 2022 #BalsilliePrize for #PublicPolicy, for his book, #DreamStates: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias. ◣ Find out more about our $60,000 prize winner at writerstrust.com/BalsilliePr…
John Lorinc named winner of the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

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Congratulations to #DavidChariandy for taking home the newly doubled $50,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his novel, Brother bit.ly/1aa3y7F #WTAwards #canlit #RogersFiction #Scarborough
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Announcing 2017's #RogersFiction finalists! @CarleighBaker @ClaireCameron #DavidChariandy @OmarElAkkad @Betasamosake bit.ly/2yqZjVW
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Just announced! The 2022 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award spotlight is on #shortfiction finalists #JenBatler for "Ectopia Cordis," Teya Hollier @teyaholla for "Watching, Waiting" & Emily Paskevics @epaskev for "Wild Girls" Read their short stories: writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… #canlit
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Please join us in congratulating the 2020 #DayneOgilvie Prize for #LGBTQ #EmergingWriters finalists: Robyn Maynard @policingblack, #SmokiiSumac & @ArielleTwist 🌈 writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvi… The $10,000 winner will be announced Oct 21 at the #WTAwards: Emerging Writers Edition
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Named in honour of WT founders @MargaretAtwood & #GraemeGibson, known for their bold works & commitment to supporting #CanLit, the new #AtwoodGibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize will award $60K to the year’s best #Canadian novel or short story collection writerstrust.com/fiction
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We are concerned about the whereabouts of noted author Dawn Dumont Walker. Our thoughts are with her family during this time. If you have any information regarding her whereabouts, please contact the Saskatoon Police Service at 306-975-8300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Posting. Please read and share. Saskatoon police search cellphone records, banking history of woman missing with son ⁦@fsinations⁩ theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Writers' Trust of Canada is hiring a Communications Manager! If you love books, have digital marketing data skills, and want to support our mission to encourage and celebrate Canadian literature, check out the job posting and apply by June 4 > bit.ly/3fQUJrJ #canlit
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2023 #WTRisingStars announced! ⭐ These #CanLit writers are poised to produce exceptional & enduring creative work. Immense congrats to @manahilbanduk, @KatiaBelkhodja, @ericavioletlee, @JulieMannell, and @teresempierre. Learn more about the program at writerstrust.com/RisingStars
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The next era of #CanadianPoetry 🌸 Announcing our 2019 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters finalists! Congrats to Rebecca Salazar @leonrxs, Ellie Sawatzky @ellszky, and John Elizabeth @Stintzi bit.ly/2TCgDlW #canlit #PoetryMonth #NPM2019 #NationalPoetryMonth
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Congrats to our 2019 #WTAwards winners! #AndréAlexis, Angélique Lalonde, @JennyHeijun Wills, @StephensCollis, @SusinNielsen, @OliveSenior, & #RawiHage! #canlit #diversecanlit
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And the $60,000 winner is... #TomsonHighway wins the Hilary Weston WT Prize for Nonfiction for #PermanentAstonishment, a memoir about growing up in a Cree-speaking family in N. Manitoba & then in a residential school writerstrust.com/westonprize #WestonPrize #canlit #FNMI #WTAwards
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Fresh perspectives from #LGBTQ2S+ #EmergingWriters: Congrats to the 2021 #DayneOgilvie Prize finalists! All poets! 🌈#JillianChristmas 🌈@KamaLaMackerel 🌈@fka_jayesimpson Read why the jury is excited about their past & future work writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvi… #canlit #diversecanlit
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Help your fave Canadian author find some extra writing time ✍🏾 Nominate a writer of #fiction, #literarynonfiction, #poetry, or literature for young people for the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship by March 12, 2018 bit.ly/1QpldLr #WTfellow #YA #canlit #diversecanlit
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Call for applications: Live & write in #DawsonCity, Yukon for 3 months (between July 2018-June 2019) courtesy of the Writers' Trust of Canada. No application fee, deadline is Feb 21 2018 bit.ly/2Euv4R0 #canlit #amwriting #WIR
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Announcing finalists for the 2022 #AtwoodGibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize — immense congratulations to @RimaElkouri, #NicholasHerring, #KevinLambert, #DarcyTamayose, and @saeedteebi. Well-deserved! @mawenzihouse @goose_lane @biblioasis @NeWestPress @HouseofAnansi #canlit
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Congratulations to the winner of this year's Matt Cohen Award! Helen Humphreys is recognized for her commitment to the #writinglife and production of a distinguished body of work. writerstrust.com/MattCohen #WTAwards
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Call for Applications: 2021 #WTMentorship✒️🇨🇦 Are you a #Canadianwriter completing your first manuscript? Apply by Mar 8 to work with #PashaMalla (fiction), @JWhitehead204 (poetry), or @JennyHeijun Wills (nonfiction) for 5 months. Mentees receive $2,500. writerstrust.com/Mentorship
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Congratulations to the 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists! #AndreAlexis #DaysbyMoonlight, #SharonButala Season of Fury and Wonder, @MichaelCrummey The Innocents, @TeaMutonji Shut Up You’re Pretty, & @AlixOhlin Dual Citizens #RogersFiction #WTAwards #canlit
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The Best of Canada’s New Writers 🍁 Congrats to all authors & #litmags on the 2018 #JourneyPrize longlist! Pre-order the anthology here: bit.ly/2MfpwBK @dalhousiereview @pulpliterature @thenewquarterly @EVENTmags @malahatreview @PrismLitMag @PrairieFireMag @thismagazine
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Discover Canada’s brightest young poets: Announcing the 2020 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters #poetry finalists: nina jane drystek @textcurious, Zoe Imani Sharpe & Alexa Winik @aj_winik 🎉 writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… $10,000 winner announced Oct 21 #canlit #WTAwards
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Our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Canadian author Alice Munro. A master of the short story form admired by readers at home and around the world, she leaves an indelible mark on the Canadian literary landscape. bit.ly/4amKLbu
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Congrats! Poet @ArielleTwist is the winner of the 2020 #DayneOgilvie Prize for #LGBTQ #EmergingWriters for her body of work, including #DisintegrateDissociate 🎉🇨🇦📚 writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvi… #WTAwards #canlit #diversecanlit #poetry #FNMI #IndigenousLit
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Live from their quarantine nooks: Start your week off right with our first #WTInsideVoices conversation ft. past #WTFellow recipients on how the pandemic has affected their writing rituals & inspirations. Mark Monday, April 20 in your calendar! bit.ly/2VulUOB #canlit
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francesca ekwuyasi wins the $10,000 #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers for her debut book, #ButterHoneyPigBread. Congratulations, @franekwuyasi, well-deserved! writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvi… #WTAwards
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Announcing a brand new program for #developingwriters: Writers' Trust Rising Stars will annually recognize 5 talented writers in the early stages of their careers with $5000 & an endorsement from an influential author. Meet the 2019 #WTRisingStars: bit.ly/2IBMVvo #canlit
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Announcing the winner of the 2018 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing: @RachelAGiese for Boys: What it Means to Become a Man, published by @HarperCollinsCa #polipen #genderequality #genderequity #canlit
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2022 #WestonPrize finalists announced! Huge congrats to @GeoffDembicki, Tara McGowan-Ross @girthgirl, Debra Thompson @debthompsonphd, Dan Werb @dmwerb, and Joshua Whitehead @JWhitehead204 ◢ ◤ @greystonebooks, @dundurnpress, Scribner @SimonSchusterCA, @CrownPublishing, @KnopfCA
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And the winner of the $60,000 #AtwoodGibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize is... #NicholasHerring!   Herring takes home the night's top prize for fiction for his whirlwind, seafaring novel, #SomeHellish. Congratulations, Nicholas! writerstrust.com/AtwoodGibso… #WTAwards
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Just announced: Dan Breznitz wins inaugural #BalsilliePrize for #PublicPolicy🥇@DBreznitz takes home the $60,000 prize for his book Innovation in Real Places. Congrats, Dan! writerstrust.com/BalsilliePr… #canlit @OUPEconomics @munkschool @UofT
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Announcing @davidpleonard as our incoming Executive Director! “I’ve long admired the work of Writers’ Trust. I’m honoured to be asked to take on this role and excited about the next chapter of this vital element of Canada’s cultural community.”
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Ready, set, #DrawtheWord ✏ @MargaretAtwood, @J_Xmas & @JennyHeijun Wills challenge *you* to share an original drawing inspired by a #Canlit spring book to win! Entries can be digital, on paper, a make-up look, anything. Nominate 2 readers with your entry writerstrust.com/drawtheword
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Spring Awards for #EmergingWriters: Congrats to the 2021 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award poetry finalists! 🌱Jessica Bebenek @notyrmuse 🌱Hannah Green 🌱Zehra Naqvi @fzehran Read why the jury loved their poems writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… #canlit #diversecanlit
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It's 2020 & we're seeing double! This year, two prizes will be given for the @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters — there will be one $10,000 #poetry winner & one $10,000 #shortfiction winner. Submit by Feb 25: bit.ly/2QRo7S5 #canlit #diversecanlit
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The 2020 #WTfiction Prize list is here! writerstrust.com/fiction #WTAwards #canlit 🇨🇦 ◢ #Ridgerunner by #GilAdamson ◢ #TheBeguiling by #ZsuzsiGartner ◢ #FiveLittleIndians by Michelle Good @Creeborn ◢ #IndiansOnVacation by #ThomasKing ◢ #GoodCitizensNeedNotFear by @_MariaReva
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Our new #literaryaward for thought-provoking books with potential to influence Canada's future: $60,000 #BalsilliePrize for #PublicPolicy will spotlight informative works of #literarynonfiction with insightful and bold visions for Canada writerstrust.com/BalsilliePr… #canlit #cdnpoli
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Congrats to Amazon Canada First Novel Award shortlisters: The Amateurs by @LizHarmer, Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard, Little Fish by @CaseyPlett, Split Tooth by Tanya @Tagaq, Jonny Appleseed by @JWhitehead204 & Reproduction by @IanWillwrite bit.ly/2W7Pmcz
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Introducing you to the next gen of great #Canadianwriters: Congrats to the 2020 #JourneyPrize finalists writerstrust.com/JourneyPriz… #canlit @LisaFoad for “Hunting” @TaddleCreek @DavidBHuebert for “Chemical Valley” @TheFiddlehd Jessica Johns @stellaabrenda for “Bad Cree” @GrainLitMag
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“I am honoured & completely blown away.” Congrats #CherieDimaline, 2021 winner of the $25,000 WT #EngelFindley Award! @WriteOnCherie is recognized for her craft, courage & future potential. Well-deserved. writerstrust.com/EngelFindle… #canlit #IndigenousLit #diversecanlit #WTAwards
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And the winner of the 2024 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize is @JohnVaillant for #FireWeather: The Making of a Beast! writerstrust.com/Shaughnessy… #canlit #cdnpoli
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Congrats to 2017 #WestonPrize Nonfiction finalists! @IvanCoyote #KyoMaclear @JamesMaskalyk @CarolOffCBC @TanyaTalaga bit.ly/2xeFaTI
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Lindsay Nixon @notvanishing is the winner of the 2019 #DayneOgilvie Prize! Thank you to our jury @AmberDawnWrites and @razorfemme and to host extraordinaire @BillehN 🌈🌈 #OnWords2019 #canlit #diversecanlit
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Just announced: The 2018 #DayneOgilvie Prize finalists are @itsBenLadouceur, @Anasemia, and @JWhitehead204 🎉 bit.ly/2rW1GPh $4,000 winner announced Saturday, June 16 at #CWS2018 #EmergingWriters #canlit #canqueer #LGBT #LGBTQI2S
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$25,000 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize winner is @kamalalsolaylee for #Brown! #polipen #cdnpoli
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The winner of the $65,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is @JennyHeijun Wills for Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. published by @McClellandBooks! #WTAwards #WestonPrize #canlit #diversecanlit
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Congrats! Jessica Johns @stellaabrenda is the winner of the 2020 Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart #JourneyPrize for her short story "Bad Cree," originally published by @GrainLitMag writerstrust.com/JourneyPriz… #WTAwards #canlit #diversecanlit #FNMI #IndigenousLit
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#CanadaReads panelist @HumbleThePoet is looking for a GTA school to visit Mar 24. Will it be yours? bit.ly/2n1aDGr #FifteenDogs
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Meet the 2021 #WestonPrize nonfiction finalists: Jordan Abel, #KenHaigh, #TomsonHighway, Darrel J McLeod & Ian Williams 🎉📚 writerstrust.com/westonprize These personal & political stories push the form of memoir to new heights. #canlit #toread @jordoisdead @achakos @ianwillwrite
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Announcing the new DC Reid Poets’ Grant which will anonymously deliver grants of $5,000 to poets of modest means to help fund their writing. The new program is generously supported by author DC Reid. Find program details at: writerstrust.com/DCReid
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The best of #Canadiannonfiction: Congrats to the 10th annual #WestonPrize finalists #LornaCrozier, #StevenHeighton, @JessicaJLee, #TessaMcWatt, and David A. Neel @NativeJeweler 🎉📚 writerstrust.com/nonfiction $60,000 winner announce Nov 18 #canlit #diversecanlit #WTAwards
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🌈 The #DayneOgilvie Prize for #LGBTQ #EmergingWriters rewards the brightest authors from Canada's #LGBTQcommunity. Congratulations to our 2019 finalists: @Joelle_Barron, Lindsay Nixon @notvanishing & @CaseyPlett 🌈 bit.ly/2VxytY9 Winner announced June 1 in #Halifax!
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"Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of law and politics in Canada." Congratulations to the 20th anniversary #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing winner, #BeverleyMcLachlin for Truth Be Told 🎉🇨🇦 bit.ly/2RVy2qF @SimonSchusterCA #polipen
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”I plan to take this opportunity to write my heart out” 2017 Writers' Trust Fellow #EdenRobinson on her $50,000 win: bit.ly/2Anr0Qq #WTFellow #WTGala #CanLit #diversecanlit #IndigenousLit
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WT call for submissions! Send us your #poetry and/or #shortfiction to win $10,000🍁✒️ The @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters has a proven track record of helping talented young authors get their first book deal. Deadline is Feb 22, 2021 writerstrust.com/BronwenWall…
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Four notable authors to live and write at #BertonHouse >> Congrats to our 2018-19 writers-in-residence @AnakanaSchofiel, #SarahMian, @CarleighBaker, and #TrishSalah/@Anasemia bit.ly/2LRco2l #canlit #WIR #amwriting #amediting
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Five Books Explore #cdnpoli Past and Present: Congrats to the 2017 #ShaughnessyCohen finalists @ChrisDummitt1, @CarolOffcbc, @SandraPerron22, Ted Rowe, and @TanyaTalaga bit.ly/2GdNbA3 $25,000 winner announced May 9 at #polipen!
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Author Graeme Gibson made a huge impact on the work of countless Canadian writers as a co-founder of @writerstrust. A truly fine person with a brilliant legacy. Our hearts go out to his loving circle of family and friends. bit.ly/2Qhl3l8
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📚 WT Long Weekend Book Giveaway 📚 RETWEET for a chance to win an Indigenous literature prize pack. RT until the end Mon. for a chance to win this seven-book prize pack with work from @betasamosake @MaracleLee @cherie_dimaline @CarleighBaker @TanyaTalaga @WabKinew & #ThomasKing
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And the winner of the $60,000 #AtwoodGibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize is... #KaiThomas! Kai takes home the night's top prize for fiction with his exceptional debut, In the Upper Country. Congratulations, Kai! writerstrust.com/AtwoodGibso… #WTAwards
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WINNER: Dan Werb takes home the 2022 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Expertly navigating the history of coronaviruses & those that are yet to come, @dmwerb's #TheInvisibleSiege is both timely & important. Well-done, Dan! writerstrust.com/nonfiction #WTAwards
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We asked a few #Canadianwriters what books they’ll be packing in their picnic baskets this summer; see our curated list of #summerreads ft. @BRCinnamon @dpmasca @waub @AnakanaSchofiel @swanscribe @ianwillwrite & more: bit.ly/3047oO8 #canlit #diversecanlit #readthenorth
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Congratulations to 2017 #DayneOgilvie Prize for #LGBTQ #EmergingWriters winner #KaiChengThom! bit.ly/2rRzqiP #Onwords2017 #canqueer
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Ready, set, submit your unpublished poetry and short fiction to the 2022 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters for your chance to win $10,000 📕🍁📕 No submission fee, deadline is February 14. Full details at writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… #canlit #diversecanlit #amwriting
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Pass it on! The $700,000 #CanadaPerforms fund is for professional authors & artists who have seen their 2020 spring/summer book tours & launch events cancelled. Applications will be accepted until Apr 20 for live events to be streamed before May 31, 2020 #canlit #diversecanlit
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Just announced: The 2021 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing shortlist explores important battles for personal & political power in Canada's past, present & future. Add these 5 informative nonfiction reads to your list writerstrust.com/Shaughnessy… #canlit #polipen #cdnpoli
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"Property is the core function of producing the forms of inequality and violence and brutality that currently shape our interspecies antagonisms." Watch: Rinaldo Walcott @blacklikewho & Canisia Lubrin @canisialu discuss On Property piped.video/OYcRLG_-gUw #WTAmplifiedVoices
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Congrats to #WTMentorship recipients Simone Dalton @iamdalts (mentor @JennyHeijun), Emily Pegg @ekpegg (mentor #PashaMalla) & @EmilyJaneRiddle (mentor @JWhitehead204)! The program provides $2,500 & one-on-one manuscript guidance over a 5-month period writerstrust.com/Mentorship
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And the winner of the $10,000 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters is John Elizabeth @Stintzi!! 🌸🌸 #canlit #poetry
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Fresh perspectives by Canada's new writing talents: Congrats to the 2021 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters short fiction finalists! 🌿Carolyn Chung 🌿@AnnaLingKaye 🌿@JoshuaWales Read why the jury loved their stories writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… #canlit #diversecanlit
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Thoughtful debate happens when all sides are well-read. Meet the inaugural #BalsilliePrize for #PublicPolicy finalists; $60K winner revealed Nov24 writerstrust.com/BalsilliePr… ◥Dan Breznitz @dbreznitz ◥@GregorCraigie ◥André Picard @PicardonHealth ◥Jody Wilson-Raybould @Puglaas
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This just in — @RonDeibert has won the $25,000 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing! Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, has been chosen by the jury as best written & most influential to Canadian political life. Congratulations, Ron! bit.ly/3jaqVJm
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Just launched >> New #WTMentorship for #youngwriters with a manuscript of fiction/poetry/creative nonfiction pairs 3 #emergingwriters with #MichaelChristie, #LizHoward & @AyeletTsabari. Apply by Dec 2: writerstrust.com/Mentorship Special thanks to @RBC! #RBCEmergingArtists #canlit
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#Ridgerunner by #GilAdamson just won the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize! "An adventure as sprawling and impeccably rendered as the land itself" bit.ly/3lGRe8n #WTFiction #WTAwards @HouseofAnansi @sarahmac
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The 2019 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart #JourneyPrize longlist is here! Shortlist announced Sept 4; $10,000 winner revealed Nov 5. Pre-order The Journey Prize Stories 31 here: bit.ly/2YAGIHO @hajerakhaja @canisialu @Skink00ts @McClellandBooks #canlit #shortfiction
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Congrats to our #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for #PoliticalWriting finalists! Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung, Breaching the Peace by Sarah Cox, Boys by Rachel Giese, Pipe Dreams by Jacques Poitras, & #BigLonelyDoug by Harley Rustad bit.ly/2UKfych #canlit #polipen
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Meet the 2021 #AtwoodGibson WT Fiction Prize finalists writerstrust.com/fiction ◥ #EveryoneKnowsYourMotherisaWitch by #RivkaGalchen ◥ #WeWantWhatWeWant by @AlixOhlin ◥ Fight Night by #MiriamToews ◥ #AugustintoWinter by #GuyVanderhaeghe ◥ The Strangers by #KatherenaVermette
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Milestone alert! We just reached 20,000 @Twitter followers & we're celebrating with chocolate cake 🎉 Thanks to all of our bookish friends for retweeting & liking our posts over the years. We love bringing you #canlit #booknews & #writeropportunities 📚🇨🇦
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How has 🇨🇦 #writinglife been affected by #COVID19? Don't miss our first #WTInsideVoices live stream Apr 20 ft. @MichaelCrummey, #MiriamToews, #EdenRobinson & #HeatherONeill @lethal_heroine, moderated by @TanyaTalaga > bit.ly/2VulUOB #canlit #WriterReliefFund #WTfellow
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Zak Jones @zd_jones wins 2023 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for his short story, “So Much More to Say.” Congratulations, Zak!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: #BilalBaig, @franekwuyasi, and Matthew James Weigel @SpongePoet named 2022 #DayneOgilvie Prize finalists! Read more about their work #AchaBacha, #ButterHoneyPigBread, and #WhitemudWalking at writerstrust.com/DayneOgilvi… #canlit Congrats to all!
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Poet Faith Paré @paretriarchy wins the 2024 @RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Selections from “a fine African head” Read her winning poems at writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… #canlit #cdnpoetry
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Chris Turner wins 2023 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing for his book, How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World. Congratulations, Chris! @theturner @PenguinRandomCA
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The world has lost a great Stó:lō storyteller. We send love and admiration to Lee Maracle's family today. Honour Maracle's life by seeking out her words and wisdom. To hear her voice again, listen as she delivers our latest lecture on the writing life: writerstrust.com/lecture
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Discover Canada’s brightest young writers: Announcing the 2020 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters #shortfiction finalists: Jamaluddin Aram, Omer Friedlander & @LeahMol 🎉 writerstrust.com/BronwenWall… $10,000 winner announced Oct 21 #canlit #WTAwards
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The top #shortfiction stories of the year: Announcing the 2018 #JourneyPrize finalists! @ShashiSBhat for “Mute” in @dalhousiereview, @GregoryDBrown for “Love” in @pulpliterature, and @LizHarmer for “Never Prosper” in @thenewquarterly. Read more: bit.ly/2N906GQ #canlit
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Congrats to these two amazing Canadian writers! Can't wait to see what they write next.
UAlberta Press@UAlbertaPress
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Big news! Canadians Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin are among the eight writers from around the world to receive the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, an anonymously judged literary award worth $US165,000. ow.ly/QmuE50E6kfx @Yale @writerstrust @canisialu @cbcbooks
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"In Cree, trees are "who", not "what". –#TomsonHighway Listen to Highway on the nuance of language—the challenges of the English language, the uniqueness of the #Cree language—as he delivers the 2018 Margaret Laurence Lecture bit.ly/2yotW3h #FNMI #IndigenousLit #CanLit
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2023 #WestonPrize Shortlist Announcement: Congratulations to Jamal Saeed @jssaeed, Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns, @AngelaSterritt, #EmilyUrquhart, and @JohnVaillant, finalists for this year’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction! writerstrust.com/nonfiction #canlit
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Announcing the $25,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People winner: @SusinNielsen #WTAwards #canlit #YA #childrenslit
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