Award winners (l to r) Joan Thomas, Cary Fagan, Miriam Toews, Ken Babstock, Susan Musgrave, Tyler Keevil
On November 4, 2014, Canada’s literary crowd got together for the night of warm fuzzy feelings that is the annual Writers’ Trust Awards. Held at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, the event was hosted by Globe & Mail Arts Editor Jared Bland, who shared literary anecdotes between emotional speeches from the winners. In total, $139,000 in prize money was awarded to Canadian writers. The night’s winners were:
- Miriam Toews for All My Puny Sorrows, which won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Tyler Keevil for “Sealskin,” which won the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Ken Babstock, who won the inaugural Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Joan Thomas, who won the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award
- Susan Musgrave, who won the Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Cary Fagan, who won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
Here’s some of the media coverage:
- Canadian Press
- CBC
- City TV, Breakfast Television
- Globe & Mail
- National Post, feature on Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize winner Ken Babstock.
- Quill & Quire (photo gallery)
- Maclean’s, feature on the ways in which the Writers’ Trust of Canada helps Canadian authors through its ten national literary awards and other programs.