Winners have been announced for the 2025 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards, "presented for individual works and career achievement, and in recognition of accomplishments in the fields of fiction, nonfiction, short fiction, poetry and literature for young readers."
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson was awarded the C$75,000 (about US$53,465) Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead; Maria Reva received the C$70,000 (about US$49,900) Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Endling; and the C$10,000 (about US$7,130) Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers went to Roza Nozari for All the Parts We Exile.
Four authors received awards for mid-career and lifetime achievement: Bren Simmers won the C$60,000 (about US$42,770) Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize; Sheree Fitch was named winner of the C$40,000 (about US$28,515) Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life; Julie Flett took the C$40,000 (about US$28,515) Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People; and Kim Thúy was given the C$25,000 (about US$17,820) Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award.