The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers.[1] Alongside the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Giller Prize, it is considered one of the three main awards for Canadian fiction in English.[2] Its eligibility criteria allow for it to garland collections of short stories as well as novels; works that were originally written and published in French are also eligible for the award when they appear in English translation.

The award was first presented in 1997. It was renamed in January 2021, in order to honour the Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson.[3] Concurrently with the renaming, the prize package was increased from $50,000 to $60,000, matching the amount currently presented by its sibling, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[4] The prize is sponsored by Jim Balsillie.

Nominees and recipients

Year Jury Author Title Result Ref.
1997 Matt Cohen
Elisabeth Harvor
Ann Ireland		 Austin Clarke The Origin of Waves Winner [5]
Elizabeth Hay Small Change Shortlist [6]
Brian Moore The Magician's Wife
Mordecai Richler Barney's Version
Jane Urquhart The Underpainter
1998 Joan Clark
Austin Clarke
Trevor Ferguson		 Greg Hollingshead The Healer Winner [7]
André Alexis Childhood Shortlist [8]
Barbara Gowdy The White Bone
Wayne Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
1999 Lynn Coady
Sylvia Fraser
Eric Wright		 Peter Oliva The City of Yes Winner [9]
Caroline Adderson A History of Forgetting Shortlist [10]
Elyse Gasco Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Judy MacDonald Jane
Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief
2000 Cynthia Holz
Janice Kulyk Keefer
Peter Oliva		 Helen Humphreys Afterimage Winner [11]
Todd Babiak Choke Hold Shortlist [12]
Lynn Coady Play the Monster Blind
Douglas Glover 16 Categories of Desire
Michael Winter This All Happened
2001 Lesley Choyce
Eliza Clark
Olive Senior		 Margaret Sweatman When Alice Lay Down with Peter Winner [13]
Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Shortlist [14]
Elizabeth Ruth Ten Good Seconds of Silence
Timothy Taylor Stanley Park
Thomas Wharton Salamander
2002 Joan Barfoot
Brian Brett
Sarah Sheard		 Paulette Jiles Enemy Women Winner [15]
Terry Griggs Rogues' Wedding Shortlist [16]
Ann Ireland Exile
Lori Lansens Rush Home Road
Nino Ricci Testament
2003 Kevin Chong
Lisa Moore
Diane Schoemperlen		 Kevin Patterson Country of Cold Winner [17]
Jacqueline Baker A Hard Witching & Other Stories Shortlist [18]
Gil Courtemanche A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Barbara Gowdy The Romantic
Judith McCormack The Rule of Last Clear Chance
2004 Sylvia Fraser
Zsuzsi Gartner
Michael Redhill		 Alice Munro Runaway Winner [19]
Michael Helm In the Place of Last Things Shortlist [20]
Colin McAdam Some Great Thing
Jeffrey Moore The Memory Artists
Russell Smith Muriella Pent
2005 Anita Rau Badami
Lewis DeSoto
Mary Swan		 Joseph Boyden Three Day Road Winner [21]
Michael Crummey The Wreckage Shortlist [22]
Lauren B. Davis The Radiant City
Allan Donaldson Maclean
Rabindranath Maharaj A Perfect Pledge
2006 Karen Connelly
Jeffrey Moore
Anna Porter		 Kenneth J. Harvey Inside Winner [23]
Peter Behrens The Law of Dreams Shortlist [24]
Rawi Hage De Niro's Game
Catherine Hanrahan Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Mary Lawson The Other Side of the Bridge
2007 Kevin Major
Kim Moritsugu
Madeleine Thien		 Lawrence Hill The Book of Negroes Winner [25]
Shaena Lambert Radiance Shortlist [26]
Robert Hough The Culprits
Nancy Huston Fault Lines
M.G. Vassanji The Assassin's Song
2008 Lawrence Hill
Annabel Lyon
Heather O'Neill		 Miriam Toews The Flying Troutmans Winner [27]
Rivka Galchen Atmospheric Disturbances Shortlist [28]
Rawi Hage Cockroach
Lee Henderson The Man Game
Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog
2009 Marina Endicott
Miriam Toews
R.M. Vaughan		 Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean Winner [29]
Nicole Brossard Fences in Breathing Shortlist [30]
Douglas Coupland Generation A
Alice Munro Too Much Happiness
Andrew Steinmetz Eva's Threepenny Theatre
2010 Andrew Pyper
Eden Robinson
Lisa Moore		 Emma Donoghue Room Winner [31]
Trevor Cole Practical Jean Shortlist [32]
Michael Helm Cities of Refuge
Kathleen Winter Annabel
Michael Winter The Death of Donna Whalen
2011 Emma Donoghue
Rabindranath Maharaj
Margaret Sweatman		 Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Winner [33]
Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac Shortlist [34]
Michael Christie The Beggar's Garden
Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues
Dan Vyleta The Quiet Twin
2012 Esi Edugyan
Lynn Coady
Drew Hayden Taylor		 Tamas Dobozy Siege 13 Winner [35]
Tim Bowling The Tinsmith Shortlist [36]
Rawi Hage Carnival
Alix Ohlin Inside
Linda Spalding The Purchase
2013 Caroline Adderson
Alison Pick
Miguel Syjuco		 Colin McAdam A Beautiful Truth Winner [37]
Krista Bridge The Elliot Girls Shortlist [38]
Lynn Coady Hellgoing
Cary Fagan A Bird's Eye
Lisa Moore Caught
2014 Neil Bissoondath
George Murray
Helen Humphreys		 Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows Winner [39]
André Alexis Pastoral Shortlist [40]
Steven Galloway The Confabulist
K. D. Miller All Saints
Carrie Snyder Girl Runner
2015 Aislinn Hunter
Shani Mootoo
Richard Wagamese		 André Alexis Fifteen Dogs Winner [41]
Elizabeth Hay His Whole Life Shortlist [42]
Pamela Mordecai Red Jacket
Russell Smith Confidence
John Vaillant The Jaguar's Children
2016 Lauren B. Davis
Trevor Ferguson
Pasha Malla		 Yasuko Thanh Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains Winner [43]
Michael Helm After James Shortlist [44]
Anosh Irani The Parcel
Kerry Lee Powell Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
Katherena Vermette The Break
2017 Michael Christie
Christy Ann Conlin
Tracey Lindberg		 David Chariandy Brother Winner [45]
Carleigh Baker Bad Endings Shortlist [46]
Claire Cameron The Last Neanderthal
Omar El Akkad American War
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson This Accident of Being Lost
2018 Ann Y. K. Choi
Mireille Silcoff
Robert Wiersema		 Kathy Page Dear Evelyn Winner [47]
Craig Davidson The Saturday Night Ghost Club Shortlist [48]
Esi Edugyan Washington Black
Rawi Hage Beirut Hellfire Society
Jen Neale Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
2019 Dennis Bock
Michael Kaan
Suzette Mayr		 André Alexis Days by Moonlight Winner [49]
Sharon Butala Season of Fury and Wonder Shortlist [50]
Michael Crummey The Innocents
Téa Mutonji Shut Up, You're Pretty
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens
2020 Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Waubgeshig Rice
Yasuko Thanh		 Gil Adamson Ridgerunner Winner [51]
Zsuzsi Gartner The Beguiling Shortlist [51]
Michelle Good Five Little Indians
Thomas King Indians on Vacation
Maria Reva Good Citizens Need Not Fear
2021 Rebecca Fisseha
Michelle Good
Steven Price		 Katherena Vermette The Strangers Winner [52]
Rivka Galchen Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Shortlist [53]
Alix Ohlin We Want What We Want
Miriam Toews Fight Night
Guy Vanderhaeghe August Into Winter
2022 David Bergen
Norma Dunning
Andrew Forbes		 Nicholas Herring Some Hellish Winner [54]
Rima Elkouri (tr. Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott) Manam Shortlist [55]
Kevin Lambert (tr. Donald Winkler) Querelle of Roberval
Darcy Tamayose Ezra's Ghosts
Saeed Teebi Her First Palestinian
2023 Francesca Ekwuyasi
Alix Hawley
M. G. Vassanji		 Kai Thomas In the Upper Country Winner [56]
Emma Donoghue Learned by Heart Shortlist [57]
Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers
Michelle Porter A Grandmother Begins the Story
Thomas Wharton The Book of Rain

References

  1. ↑ The Writers' Trust of Canada, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Archived 2007-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Who wins Canada’s literary prizes — and why". Maclean's, October 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Writers' Trust renames fiction prize after co-founders and couple Atwood and Gibson". CTV News, January 27, 2021.
  4. ↑ K. J. Aiello, "Will a Writers’ Trust award honouring Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson mark the beginning of a hopeful year for writers?". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Literary Prizes Awarded". Ottawa Citizen, January 20, 1998.
  6. ↑ "Govier takes Engel prize". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 1997.
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  8. ↑ "Butala wins Engel prize". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 1998.
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  10. ↑ "Nominations announced". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2000.
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  12. ↑ "Finalists named for Writer's Trust prizes". Niagara Falls Review, February 3, 2001.
  13. ↑ Judy Stoffman, "Seven authors win big prizes ; Levine, Blaise, Hay among those honoured in T.O.". Toronto Star, March 6, 2002.
  14. ↑ "Double nominations in Writers' Trust awards". The Telegram, February 17, 2002.
  15. ↑ "Manitoulin author among award winners". Sault Star, March 8, 2003.
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  17. ↑ Anne-Marie Tobin, "Writers from across Canada receive literary awards". The Western Star, March 6, 2004.
  18. ↑ Judy Stoffman, "Overlooked books make shortlist". Toronto Star, February 4, 2004.
  19. ↑ Judy Stoffman, "Engel 'knocked out' by honour; Sleuth writer cops Matt Cohen prize Seven, in all, feted by Writers Trust". Toronto Star, March 10, 2005.
  20. ↑ "Munro, Newman among finals for literary awards". Peterborough Examiner, February 5, 2005.
  21. ↑ "Joseph Boyden, John Vaillant glean Writers' Trust Awards". Sault Star, March 2, 2006.
  22. ↑ "Crummey in running for national prize". The Telegram, February 3, 2006.
  23. ↑ "N.L. writer's 'Inside' wins fiction prize". Telegraph-Journal, March 8, 2007.
  24. ↑ Pat Donnelly, "Hage, Behrens face off again". Montreal Gazette, February 8, 2007.
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  27. ↑ Mark Medley, "Winnipeg novelist wins Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; Miriam Toews takes $25,000 award for her road-trip story The Flying Troutmans". Winnipeg Free Press, November 18, 2008.
  28. ↑ "Who's in the running for some of this year's big awards". Montreal Gazette, October 25, 2008.
  29. ↑ Mark Medley, "Ontario-born B.C. writer Annabel Lyon wins fiction prize for The Golden Mean". CanWest News Service, November 24, 2009.
  30. ↑ "Munro, Coupland on fiction shortlist for Writer's Trust prizes". Edmonton Journal, October 1, 2009.
  31. ↑ Mark Medley, "Emma Donoghue wins Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Vancouver Sun, November 3, 2010.
  32. ↑ John Barber, "Emma Donoghue, Kathleen and Michael Winter among finalists for Writers' Trust". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2010.
  33. ↑ Mark Medley, "Patrick deWitt wins Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Postmedia News, November 2, 2011.
  34. ↑ John Barber, "Edugyan, deWitt on Writers' Trust short list". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2011.
  35. ↑ Mark Medley, "Tamas Dobozy wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Siege 13". National Post, November 7, 2012.
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  37. ↑ Dianne Rinehart, "Colin McAdam wins Writers' Trust prize: A Beautiful Truth captures the story of family, belonging, and survival". Toronto Star, November 21, 2013.
  38. ↑ "Writers Moore, Coady shortlisted". Windsor Star, October 1, 2013.
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  47. ↑ "Kathy Page, Elizabeth Hay among Writers' Trust winners". Toronto Sun, November 8, 2018.
  48. ↑ "Writers' Trust to hand out total $260,000 in prizes for literary excellence". National Post, November 7, 2018.
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  51. 1 2 Takeuchi, Craig (September 19, 2020). "Gil Adamson, Jessica J. Lee win Writers' Trust literary prizes". Now. Archived from the original on January 16, 2022.
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  53. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "‘May the force be with you’: Five finalists for the first Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize announced". Toronto Star, September 29, 2021.
  54. ↑ Dundas, Deborah (November 2, 2022). "Writers' Trust 2022 book award winners collect $270,000 in prizes". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022.
  55. ↑ "Two translated titles among finalists for $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 2022.
  56. ↑ Nicole Thompson, "Kai Thomas wins Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for debut novel". Toronto Star, November 21, 2023.
  57. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Three debut novels among finalists for 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Quill & Quire, September 27, 2023.
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