Writers' Trust of Canada

Writers' Trust of Canada

The Writers' Trust of Canada is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.

Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976. Through its various initiatives, the Writers' Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada's novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other non-fiction writers.

The organization funds and administers a number of Canadian literary awards:

* Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
* Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
* Journey Prize
* Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
* Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
* Marian Engel Award
* Matt Cohen Prize
* Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
* Thomas Head Raddall Award
* Timothy Findley Award
* W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize
* Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature

As well, the organization funds scholarships to Humber College's School for Writers, an annual "Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture" given by a noted Canadian writer, and the "Woodcock Fund", a fund providing emergency financial assistance to Canadian writers, named in memory of the Canadian poet George Woodcock.

External links

* [http://www.writerstrust.com/ Writers' Trust of Canada]


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