Overview
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, worth $75,000, for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
- Maria Reva received the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, worth $70,000, for her debut novel Endling.
- Roza Nozari earned the $12,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers for All the Parts We Exile.
- Career awards went to Bren Simmers ($60,000 Latner Griffin Poetry Prize), Sheree Fitch ($40,000 Matt Cohen Award), Julie Flett ($40,000 Vicky Metcalf Award) and Kim Thuy ($25,000 Engel Findley Award).
- The event was hosted by Mattea Roach and livestreamed on Thursday from CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio.