The shortlist has been released for the C$60,000 (about US$44,390) Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, which recognizes the best novel or short story collection of the year by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
The award is named in honor of Writers' Trust of Canada co-founders Margaret Atwood and the late Graeme Gibson, who started the organization in 1976 "with the help of a few fellow writers and an aim to encourage a Canadian literary culture at home." The winner will be announced November 19. This year's finalists, who each receive C$5,000 (US$3,700), are:
What I Know About You by Éric Chacour, translated by Pablo Strauss
Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr
Batshit Seven by Sheung-King
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
Hi, It's Me by Fawn Parker
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The shortlist has been selected for the £25,000 (about $33,300) 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize, honoring "the best new poetry collection written in English and published in the U.K. or Ireland" and sponsored by the T.S. Eliot Foundation. The winner will be announced January 13.
Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
Lapwing by Hannah Copley
The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish
Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi
High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett
Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann
Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips
Rhizodont by Katrina Porteous
Top Doll by Karen McCarthy Woolf