Awards: Forward Poetry; Hilary Weston Nonfiction

Danez Smith won the £10,000 (about $13,145) Forward Prize for the Best Poetry Collection for Don't Call Us Dead. Chair of the judges Bidisha said: "The tight lyrical poems in Don't Call Us Dead feel utterly contemporary, and exciting. Showing an astonishing formal and emotional range and a mastery of metrical, musical language, Smith's finely crafted poetry makes us look anew at the intertwined natures of politics and sexuality and stands as a powerful warning: this is what's happening, be alert, pay attention."

The £5,000 (about $6,570) Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection was awarded to Phoebe Power for Shrines of Upper Austria. And the winner of the £1,000 ($1,315) prize for Best Single Poem was Liz Berry for "The Republic of Motherhood."

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The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced finalists for the C$60,000 (about US$46,230) Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, which honors works published in Canada that " demonstrates a distinctive voice, as well as a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique." The winner will be named November 7. This year's shortlisted titles are:

Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance by Will Aitken
All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir by Elizabeth Hay
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front by Judi Rever
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong

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