Overview
- Vince Beiser was announced as the winner at a private Writers' Trust dinner in Toronto on Tuesday evening.
- The prize purse rose to $70,000 this year, with each of the three other finalists receiving $7,500.
- Jurors praised Power Metal for challenging policymakers to balance resource security with environmental impacts in the energy transition.
- A jury of Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis and Scott Young selected the winner from 58 submissions by 35 publishers.
- The other finalists were Vass Bednar and Denise Hearn for The Big Fix, Pamela Cross for And Sometimes They Kill You, and Stephen J. A. Ward for Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy.