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1torontoc
marraskuu 18, 2008, 8:20 pm

Miriam Toews has won the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her book The Flying Troutmans. The award comes with $25,000. The three fiction judges were novelists Lawrence Hill and Heather O'Neill and short story writer Annabel Lyon.
The Writers' Trust Award for non-fiction went to Taras Grescoe for Bottom-feeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood.
The Writers' Trust Notable Author Award ( recognizing a writer in mid-career) went to Michael Winter.

2Nickelini
marraskuu 18, 2008, 9:27 pm

I was very happy when I heard this announced on CBC today. Toews definitely deserves it.

3cushlareads
marraskuu 18, 2008, 10:45 pm

Bottom-feeder: how to eat ethically looks really interesting too Have you read it? Might put me off fish though...

4avaland
marraskuu 28, 2008, 12:58 pm

Can you tell us a little more about the award itself?

5torontoc
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 28, 2008, 9:01 pm

Here is some informration from their website.
Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young, and the late Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was incorporated under a federal charter and registered as a national non-profit organization in 1976. A unique charitable organization, the Writers’ Trust provides a level of financial support to writers unmatched by any other non-governmental organization. Through its various initiatives, the Writers’ Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada’s novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other non-fiction writers.
The Writers’ Trust does not receive government support for its annual funding needs. Operational funding is raised through corporate sponsorships and donations, and through gifts from foundations and individuals. In addition, the Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and other friends of the Writers’ Trust are very generous with their financial support.

The Writers’ Trust believes that Canadian writers must be supported and rewarded. To date, the Writers’ Trust’s Woodcock Fund has provided over $350,000 in financial aid to writers in financial distress, while our eleven annual awards disperse over $150,000 in prize money to winners and finalists
On November 17, 2008, the Writers’ Trust of Canada awarded $155,000 in prize money to winners and finalists of the following awards:

Toronto – November 17, 2008 – The works of great Canadian authors were honoured this evening at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the eighth annual Writers’ Trust Awards. Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews received the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans, a comic novel about a young woman and her niece and nephew on a motel-hopping road trip in search of the children’s father. Montreal writer Taras Grescoe won the $25,000 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, an account of the global crisis of fisheries and its implications, as well as a practical guide to sustainable consumption. Four authors received awards for their excellence in literature: Sylvia Fraser, Michael Kusugak, Saleema Nawaz, and Michael Winter. Additionally, Rogers received an award for its long-standing support of the Writers’ Trust. Seven prizes were awarded with a combined value of $155,000, making the event one of the richest awards nights in Canada. The prize amounts of several awards have increased by up to $10,000 from last year, reaffirming the Writers’ Trust’s commitment to supporting Canadian writers. Below are the prizes presented at the Writers’ Trust Awards, with comments from the judges: THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE ($25,000) Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc. •Winner: MiriamToews (Winnipeg) for The Flying Troutmans, published by Knopf Canada “Toews's book is a love song to young people trying to navigate the volcanic world of adult emotions.” Finalists (each receives $3,500): •Rivka Galchen (New York City) for Atmospheric Disturbances, published by HarperCollins Canada •Rawi Hage (Montreal) for Cockroach, published by House of Anansi Press •Lee Henderson (Vancouver) for The Man Game, published by Viking Canada •Patrick Lane (North Saanich, British Columbia) for Red Dog, Red Dog, published by McClelland & Stewart Jury: Lawrence Hill (Burlington, Ontario), Annabel Lyon (Vancouver), and Heather O’Neill (Montreal) THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE ($25,000) •Winner: Taras Grescoe (Montreal) for Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, published by HarperCollins Canada “Bottomfeeder navigates the troubling waters that lie between our collective desire for cheap seafood and the damage that we have done to the oceans and their inhabitants in order to secure it.” Finalists (each receives $3,500): •Carl Honoré (London, United Kingdom) for Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, published by Knopf Canada •Mark Kingwell (Toronto) for Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, published by Viking Canada •Margaret Visser (Toronto/Paris/south of France) for The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual, published by HarperCollins Canada •Russell Wangersky (St. John’s) for Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself, published by Thomas Allen Publishers Jury: Derek Lundy (Salt Spring Island, British Columbia), Jan Wong (Toronto), and Darren Wershler-Henry (Toronto)
THE WRITERS’ TRUST OF CANADA/McCLELLAND & STEWART JOURNEY PRIZE ($10,000) Made possible by James A. Michener’s donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel, Journey, and awarded to a new and developing writer for the best short story or excerpt from a novel-in-progress that had its first publication in a Canadian literary journal in the previous year. •Winner: Saleema Nawaz (Montreal) for “My Three Girls,” published in Prairie Fire “This tightly written piece accomplishes the impressive feat of condensing a novel’s worth of sorrows and joys into a few pages.” For publishing the winning entry, Prairie Fire receives $2,000. Finalists: •Dana Mills (Toronto) for “Steaming for Godthab,” published in Geist •Clea Young (Vancouver) for “Chaperone,” published in Grain Magazine Jury: Lynn Coady (Toronto), Heather O’Neill (Montreal), and Neil Smith (Montreal)) THE WRITERS’ TRUST NOTABLE AUTHOR AWARD ($25,000) Awarded to a writer in mid-career for a body of work. •Winner: Michael Winter (Toronto) “Compulsively readable, crammed with uncommon wit and insight, Michael Winter’s fiction is among the best this country has to offer.” Jury: Caroline Adderson (Vancouver), Michael Crummey (St. John’s), and Diane Schoemperlen (Kingston, Ontario) THE VICKY METCALF AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ($20,000) Sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation. Awarded to a writer of children’s literature for a body of work. •Winner: Michael Kusugak (Rankin Inlet, Nunavut) “Kusugak writes unforgettably of the lived experience of the North, offering Canadian child and adult readers a living vision of a rich way of life.” Jury: Jean Little (Guelph, Ontario), Susan Perren (Toronto), and Judith Saltman (Vancouver) THE MATT COHEN AWARD: IN CELEBRATION OF A WRITING LIFE ($20,000) Supported by Beatrice Wright and an anonymous donor. Awarded to a writer whose life has been dedicated to writing as a primary pursuit, for a body of work. •Winner: Sylvia Fraser (Toronto) “Fraser’s work is an eloquent tribute to the Writing Life.” THE WRITERS’ TRUST AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION Awarded to an individual or organization for long-standing involvement with the Writers’ Trust. •Winner: Rogers “In the last dozen years the Writers’ Trust has received from Rogers in excess of three quarters of a million dollars.

6avaland
marraskuu 28, 2008, 9:52 pm

Very impressive. It's not clear, are all the jury members writers? obviously, Lawrence Hill is, but I don't recognize the other names.

7torontoc
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 30, 2008, 11:42 am

I recognize some of the judges as writers. (Michael Crummey, Diane Schoemperlen, Lynn Coady, Heather O'Neill, Jan Wong,and Lawrence Hill) I am assuming that the rest are writers that I just don't know.

8torontoc
Muokkaaja: syyskuu 30, 2009, 1:41 pm

The 2009 nominees for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize are

Nicole Brossard
Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (translator)
Fences in Breathing
Coach House Books

Douglas Coupland
Generation A
Random House Canada

Annabel Lyon
The Golden Mean
Random House Canada

Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness
McClelland and Stewart: A Douglas Gibson Book

Andrew Steinmetz
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre
Gaspereau Press

9Nickelini
syyskuu 30, 2009, 1:43 pm

Thanks for posting this. I wonder how the prize money compares to the Giller. Annabel Lyon's book is also on the Giller list, but I've looked into it and it doesn't really interest me that much.

10torontoc
lokakuu 1, 2009, 10:44 am

The Writers' Trust Prize is $25000.
There is also an award for non-fiction.
The nominees are
Trevor Herriot for Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds, published by HarperCollins Publishers: A Phyllis Bruce Book
Erika Ritter for The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships, published by Key Porter Books
Eric Siblin for The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, published by House of Anansi
Brian Brett for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, published by Greystone Books
Wade Davis for The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, published by House of Anansi Press

11kiwidoc
lokakuu 1, 2009, 10:01 pm

The Siblin book was good - I enjoyed it. He is no Bach expert but brings an enthusiasm to the subject and the life of Casals.

12torontoc
marraskuu 25, 2009, 8:34 am

Annabel Lyon has won the 2009 Writers' Prize for Fiction for her novel The Golden Mean.
The Non-Fiction winner is Brian Brett for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
David Bergen won the Writers' Trust Notable Author Award.
Marthe Jocelyn won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature.

13Nickelini
marraskuu 25, 2009, 10:40 am

I'm glad Annabel Lyon won, just because The Golden Mean was nominated for, but didn't win, the Giller and the Governor General's.

14kidzdoc
marraskuu 25, 2009, 11:02 am

Has anyone here read The Golden Mean yet? I bought it, but I won't get to it until next year.

15torontoc
syyskuu 29, 2010, 12:20 pm

Writers’ Trust Announces Finalists for 10th Annual Awards Event

Toronto – September 29, 2010 – The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the 10th annual Writers’ Trust Awards. Nominees for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, for short fiction, were unveiled this morning at a press conference at Toronto’s Ben McNally Books. Nominees include a Man Booker Prize finalist, dueling brother and sister novelists, a husband and wife team, and – a first for the Writers’ Trust – the author of a graphic memoir.

The winners of these awards along with four other prizes will be announced on November 2, 2010, at an awards ceremony in Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre, hosted by CBC Radio One broadcast journalist Shelagh Rogers. Total prize money awarded that evening to Canadian writers will amount to $147,000, making it one of the richest prize-giving nights in Canada.

ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)
Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc.

The jury of Lisa Moore, Andrew Pyper, and Eden Robinson read 143 titles submitted by 46 publishers. Each finalist for this prize receives $2,500.

Trevor Cole for Practical Jean, McClelland & Stewart
Emma Donoghue for Room, HarperCollins Publishers
Michael Helm for Cities of Refuge, McClelland & Stewart
Kathleen Winter for Annabel, House of Anansi Press
Michael Winter for The Death of Donna Whalen, Hamish Hamilton Canada

The finalists for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize are invited to deliver a reading at the International Festival of Authors on October 27, 2010 in Toronto.

WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)

The jury of Hadani Ditmars, Sid Marty, and Michael Mitchell read 84 titles submitted by 44 publishers. Each finalist for this prize receives $2,500.

James FitzGerald for What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past, Random House Canada
Ross King for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, Douglas & McIntyre/McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Sarah Leavitt for Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, Freehand Books
John Theberge and Mary Theberge for The Ptarmigan’s Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself, McClelland & Stewart
Merrily Weisbord for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, McGill-Queen's University Press

WRITERS’ TRUST OF CANADA/McCLELLAND & STEWART JOURNEY PRIZE ($10,000)
Made possible by James A. Michener’s donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.

The Journey Prize recognizes the best short story or excerpt from a novel-in-progress by a new and developing writer that had its first publication in a Canadian literary journal in the previous year. The jury of Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas, and Alissa York read 74 stories submitted by 31 literary magazines. The journal that published the winning entry receives $2,000. McClelland & Stewart published a selection of this year’s entries in The Journey Prize Stories 22.

Devon Code for "Uncle Oscar," The Malahat Review
Krista Foss for "The Longitude of Okay," Grain Magazine
Lynne Kutsukake for "Mating," The Dalhousie Review

16lkernagh
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 2, 2010, 10:30 pm

Winners of this year's Writers' Trust awards were announced today:

http://www.writerstrust.com/News/News-%281%29/Press-Release-Archive/Press-Releas...

ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)
Emma Donoghue for Room, HarperCollins Publishers

WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)
James FitzGerald for What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past, Random House Canada

WRITERS’ TRUST OF CANADA/McCLELLAND & STEWART JOURNEY PRIZE ($10,000)
Devon Code for Uncle Oscar, The Malahat Review

WRITERS’ TRUST ENGEL/FINDLEY PRIZE ($25,000) - Sponsored by the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Board of Directors. Awarded to a writer in mid-career for a body of work.

Winner: Miriam Toews

VICKY METCALF AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ($20,000) - Sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation. Awarded to a writer of children’s literature for a body of work.

Winner: Polly Horvath

MATT COHEN AWARD: IN CELEBRATION OF A WRITING LIFE ($20,000) - Sponsored by an anonymous donor. Awarded to a writer dedicated to writing as a primary pursuit, for a body of work.

Winner: Myrna Kostash

17torontoc
syyskuu 30, 2011, 10:30 pm

Here are the Writers' Trust Awards Finalists
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for 2011
Winner: $25,000; Finalists: $2,500

Five prize finalists for the 2011 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize will be announced on September 28, 2011, during a press conference in Toronto's Ben McNally Books.

This year's finalists are

Clark Blaise | The Meagre Tarmac
Published by Biblioasis

Beggar's Garden by Michael Christie
Published by HarperCollins Publishers

Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Published by House of Anansi Press

Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues
Published by Thomas Allen Publishers

The Quiet Twin by Dan Vyleta
Published by HarperCollins Publishers

The prize will be awarded in Toronto at the Isabel Bader Theatre during the Writers’ Trust Awards event on November 1.

Finalists were selected by a three-member jury composed of Emma Donoghue, a past winner of this prize; Rabindranath Maharaj, a past finalist of this prize; and Margaret Sweatman, also a past winner of this prize.

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Winner: $60,000; Finalists: $5,000

This year's finalists are

Charles Foran | Mordecai: The Life & Times
Published by Knopf Canada

Charlotte Gill | Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
Published by Greystone Books/David Suzuki Foundation

Richard Gwyn | Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891
Published by Random House Canada


Lawrence Grant | Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Published by Harbour Publishing

Ray Robertson | Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live
Published by Biblioasis

The prize will be awarded in Toronto at Koerner Hall at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning during an event and after-party on October 25.

Some of the prizes that have been awarded

Writers’ Trust Distinguished Contribution Award

John Macfarlane

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Anna Porter The Ghosts of Europe
Published by Douglas & McIntyre

Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award

Miriam Toews

Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life

Myrna Kostash

Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature

Polly Horvath

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Garth Martens for “Inheritance and Other Poems"

Dayne Ogilvie Grant for Emerging Gay Writer

Farzana Doctor

18Bcteagirl
lokakuu 1, 2011, 9:17 pm

Thanks for posting this! Sisters Brothers seems to be popping up in most of the awards this year!

19torontoc
marraskuu 2, 2011, 9:09 am

The Sisters Brothers has won this year's Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction

20kidzdoc
marraskuu 2, 2011, 11:43 am

A worthy winner, IMO; it was my second favorite novel from this year's Booker Prize shortlist, after The Sense of an Ending.

21bergs47
joulukuu 4, 2013, 9:29 am

Monday, October 21, 2013

The 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction was awarded in Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario at a salon-style gathering of more than 200 members of the literary, philanthropic, and visual arts communities. Graeme Smith, author of The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, won the $60,000 prize for his thought-provoking account of his time as a journalist covering the violent conflict. The prize is the richest annual literary award for a book of nonfiction published in Canada.

22torontoc
lokakuu 1, 2014, 11:42 am

The five finalists in the running for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize worth $25,000 were revealed on Oct. 1st at Ben McNally Books in Toronto. The complete shortlist is:

André Alexis (Toronto) for Pastoral (Coach House Books)
Steven Galloway (New Westminster, B.C.) for The Confabulist (Knopf Canada)
K.D. Miller (Toronto) for All Saints (Biblioasis)
Carrie Snyder (Waterloo, Ont.) for Girl Runner (House of Anansi)
Miriam Toews (Toronto) for All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada)

(some of the touchstones are not right)

23torontoc
marraskuu 5, 2014, 11:34 am



Miriam Toews received the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for All My Puny Sorrows

The inaugural Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, which awards $25,000 in recognition of a writer’s exceptional body of work in the field of poetry, was presented to Ken Babstock.

Joan Thomas, whose third novel, The Opening Sky, was recently nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award, took home the $25,000 Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award;

Susan Musgrave, received the $20,000 Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life;

Cary Fagan, won the $20,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.

The $10,000 Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize went to Tyler Keevil for “Sealskin,” a short story

24torontoc
lokakuu 7, 2015, 11:14 am

The Writers Trust Fiction Finalists for 2015 are
André Alexis (Toronto)
Fifteen Dogs
Published by Coach House Books

Elizabeth Hay (Ottawa)
His Whole Life
Published by McClelland & Stewart

Pamela Mordecai (Kitchener, ON)
Red Jacket
TAP Books

Russell Smith (Toronto)
Confidence
Published by Biblioasis

John Vaillant (Vancouver)
The Jaguar's Children
Published by Knopf Canada

25torontoc
marraskuu 4, 2015, 4:11 pm

Fifteen Dogs has won the Writers Trust Award for Fiction.

26Yells
marraskuu 11, 2015, 2:51 pm

What a good week for him! Alas, I am still on hold for the book so will have to wait to see what all the fuss is about.

27kidzdoc
marraskuu 14, 2015, 8:42 am

I used my 20% off coupon from Barnes & Noble to order Fifteen Dogs earlier this week.

28torontoc
marraskuu 26, 2015, 8:38 am

I really liked Fifteen Dogs - one of those books that you put aside for a re-read.

29raidergirl3
marraskuu 26, 2015, 9:15 am

>28 torontoc: That sounds promising! I'll keep my eye out. It won the Giller too?

30torontoc
marraskuu 26, 2015, 4:06 pm

yes- nice for the author! The other of the "big three" Canadian Literary awards was won by Daddy Lenin and other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe

33auntmarge64
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 17, 2017, 8:19 pm

I really liked American War - glad it was at least a finalist.

34bergs47
marraskuu 23, 2018, 9:35 am

35Nickelini
marraskuu 24, 2018, 12:35 am

>33 auntmarge64: I bought American War for my husband, who recently read it and loved it too

36bergs47
helmikuu 5, 2020, 10:00 am

The 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist:

André Alexis for Days by Moonlight
Sharon Butala for Season of Fury and Wonder
Michael Crummey for The Innocents
Téa Mutonji for Shut Up You’re Pretty
Alix Ohlin for Dual Citizens

The winner was André Alexis
Days by Moonlight

37Yells
helmikuu 6, 2020, 1:43 pm

I have been living under a rock lately so I didn't realise that Alexis had a new book out. I will definitely need to check it out - love his writing and glad he won!