The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 literary award

Literary award

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

 presented by Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

 and the 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...

 after an annual juried competition

Juried (competition)

A juried competition is a competition in which participants' work is judged by a person or panel of persons convened specifically to judge the participants' efforts, either by the competition's stated rubric or by a subjective set of criteria dependent upon the nature of the competition or the...

 between publishers who submit entries.

First presented in 1997, the prize goes to the author of the novel or short story collection judged to be the year's best work of fiction. The prize awards $25,000 to the winning book and $3,500 to each of the finalists.

1997

Juried by Matt Cohen, Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor

Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...

, and Ann Ireland

Ann Ireland

Ann Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....

 Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...

, The Origin of Waves

• Elizabeth Hay
  Elizabeth Hay (novelist)
  Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award...
  
  , Small Change
• Brian Moore
  Brian Moore (novelist)
  Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
  
  , The Magician's Wife
• Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...
  
  , Barney's Version
• Jane Urquhart
  Jane Urquhart
  Jane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
  
  , The Underpainter

1998

Juried by Joan Clark

Joan Clark

Joan Clark BA, D.Litt is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957...

, Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...

, and Trevor Ferguson

Trevor Ferguson

Trevor Ferguson , a.k.a John Farrow, is a Canadian novelist who lives in Hudson, Quebec. He is the author of nine novels and four plays. He has been called Canada's best novelist both in Books in Canada and the Toronto Star....

 Greg Hollingshead

Greg Hollingshead

Gregory "Greg" Hollingshead is a Canadian novelist. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta...

, The Healer

• André Alexis
  André Alexis
  André Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  , Childhood
• Barbara Gowdy
  Barbara Gowdy
  Barbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
  
  , The White Bone
  The White Bone
  The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's Watership Down, it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants--in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one...
  
  
• Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction.In 2003, Justin...
  
  
• Alice Munro
  Alice Munro
  Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
  
  , The Love of a Good Woman
  The Love of a Good Woman
  The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.The eight stories of this collection deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary...
  
  

1999

Juried by Lynn Coady

Lynn Coady

-Life and career:Coady grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright...

, Sylvia Fraser

Sylvia Fraser

Sylvia Fraser is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario...

, and Eric Wright

Eric Wright (writer)

Eric Wright is a professor and Canadian writer of mystery novels.Wright was born on Kennington Park Road, in South London, England. He is the son of seamstress Caroline , and carter Joseph Wright. Wright was born to a large poor family of ten children...

 Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary, Alberta.His first novel, Drowning in Darkness , won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta, and in Calabria, Italy...

, The City of Yes

• Caroline Adderson
  Caroline Adderson
  Caroline Adderson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.-Personal life and career:...
  
  , A History of Forgetting
• Elyse Gasco
  Elyse Gasco
  Elyse Gasco, MA is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree....
  
  , Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
• Judy MacDonald
  Judy MacDonald
  Judy MacDonald is a Canadian writer and journalist.In addition to her published books, she has been associated with the online magazine Rabble and news programs for CBC Television, including The National, counterSpin and Face Off. She has also been a backing vocalist on albums by The Hidden...
  
  , Jane
• Alistair MacLeod
  Alistair MacLeod
  Alistair MacLeod, OC is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.- Academic career :...
  
  , No Great Mischief
  No Great Mischief
  No Great Mischief is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.The novel opens in the present day, with successful orthodontist Alexander MacDonald visiting his elderly older brother Calum in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  

2000

Juried by Cynthia Holz, Janice Kulyk Keefer

Janice Kulyk Keefer

Janice Kulyk Keefer is a Canadian novelist and poet.Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France, and currently teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph....

, and Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary, Alberta.His first novel, Drowning in Darkness , won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta, and in Calabria, Italy...

 Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys is a Canadian poet and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education...

, Afterimage

• Todd Babiak
  Todd Babiak
  Todd Babiak is a Canadian writer living in Edmonton, Alberta. He is co-founder of Story Engine, and has published three bestselling novels. His first novel, Choke Hold, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and a winner of the Henry Kreisel Award, and his second novel, The...
  
  , Choke Hold
• Lynn Coady
  Lynn Coady
  -Life and career:Coady grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright...
  
  , Play the Monster Blind
• Douglas Glover
  Douglas Glover (writer)
  Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario...
  
  , 16 Categories of Desire
• Michael Winter, This All Happened

2001

Juried by Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...

, Eliza Clark

Eliza Clark (author)

Eliza Clark is a Canadian writer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in 1985. She now works steadily as a television producer/director, fiction writer and story editor for both text and film...

, and Olive Senior

Olive Senior

Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada.She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a scholarship to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales, and then at Carleton...

 Margaret Sweatman

Margaret Sweatman

Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sweatman was educated at the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University and Simon Fraser University....

, When Alice Lay Down with Peter

• Alice Munro
  Alice Munro
  Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
  
  , Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001....
  
  
• Elizabeth Ruth
  Elizabeth Ruth
  Elizabeth Ruth is a Canadian novelist.Ruth was born in Windsor, Ontario, was raised by a single mother, and lived in the United States, Canada, and Colombia while growing up. Ruth earned an Honours BA and an MA from the University of Toronto.Before becoming a published writer, she worked in social...
  
  , Ten Good Seconds of Silence
• Timothy Taylor
  Timothy Taylor (writer)
  Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011....
  
  , Stanley Park
  Stanley Park (novel)
  Stanley Park is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001.-Overview:Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a "Bloods vs...
  
  
• Thomas Wharton, Salamander

2002

Juried by Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot

Joan Louise Barfoot is a Canadian novelist. She has published 11 novels, including Luck , which was a nomineee for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Critical Injuries , which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize...

, Brian Brett

Brian Brett

Brian Brett is a Canadian poet and novelist.He studied literature at Simon Fraser University from 1969 to 1974...

, and Sarah Sheard

Sarah Sheard

Sarah Sheard is a Canadian novelist.Sheard published her first novel, Almost Japanese, in 1985. She has also been a creative writing instructor at Glendon College and Humber College in Toronto, and a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press...

 Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles-Johnson is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature...

, Enemy Women

• Terry Griggs
  Terry Griggs
  Terry Griggs is a Canadian author. Her book of short stories Quickening was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards and she won the Marian Engel Award in 2002. She presently lives in Stratford, Ontario, but has occasionally lived on Manitoulin Island since her youth...
  
  , Rogues' Wedding
• Ann Ireland
  Ann Ireland
  Ann Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....
  
  , Exile
• Lori Lansens
  Lori Lansens
  Lori Lansens is a bestselling, internationally acclaimed novelist. Her first three books - "Rush Home Road", "The Girls", and "The Wife's Tale", have won acclaim throughout the world, and been translated into dozens of languages....
  
  , Rush Home Road
• Nino Ricci
  Nino Ricci
  Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....
  
  , Testament

2003

Juried by Kevin Chong

Kevin Chong

Kevin Chong is a Canadian author.Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing....

, Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore (writer)

Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...

, and Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Mavis Schoemperlen is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University....

 Kevin Patterson

Kevin Patterson

Kevin Patterson is a Canadian medical doctor and writer. His short story collection, Country of Cold, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003...

, Country of Cold

• Jacqueline Baker, A Hard Witching & Other Stories
• Gil Courtemanche
  Gil Courtemanche
  Gil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.Courtemanche was born in Montreal, Quebec...
  
  , A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
• Barbara Gowdy
  Barbara Gowdy
  Barbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
  
  , The Romantic
• Judith McCormack, The Rule of Last Clear Chance

2004

Juried by Sylvia Fraser

Sylvia Fraser

Sylvia Fraser is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario...

, Zsuzsi Gartner

Zsuzsi Gartner

Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist.Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MFA from the...

, and Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Redhill was raised in the metropolitan Toronto, Ontario area. He pursued one year of study at Indiana University, and then returned to Canada, completing his education at York University and the...

 Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...

, Runaway

Runaway (book)

Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize.- Contents :There are eight short stories in the book...

• Michael Helm
  Michael Helm
  Michael Helm is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Eston, Saskatchewan, and received degrees in literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto...
  
  , In the Place of Last Things
• Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing
• Jeffrey Moore
  Jeffrey Moore
  Jeffrey Moore is an internationally recognized championship accordionist, keyboardist in award-winning alternative rock group The Double Yellow, and multi-instrumentalist composer from Nashua, New Hampshire. He has performed for thousands nationally including venues in the United States like...
  
  , The Memory Artists
• Russell Smith, Muriella Pent

2005

Juried by Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary...

, Lewis DeSoto, and Mary Swan

Mary Swan

Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel The Boys in the Trees, a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family.Swan was the...

 Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize...

, Three Day Road

Three Day Road

Three Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden. Joseph’s maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his father’s side, served as soldiers during the First World War, and Boyden draws upon a wealth of family narratives...

• Michael Crummey
  Michael Crummey
  Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in...
  
  , The Wreckage
• Lauren B. Davis
  Lauren B. Davis
  Lauren B. Davis is a Canadian writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Davis lived in France for over a decade, and now resides in Princeton, New Jersey, where she runs the SHARPENING THE QUILL WRITERS WORKSHOPS and is past Writer-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopalian Church...
  
  , The Radiant City
• Allan Donaldson, Maclean
• Rabindranath Maharaj
  Rabindranath Maharaj
  Rabindranath Maharaj is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the literary journal Lichen...
  
  , A Perfect Pledge

2006

Juried by Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly

Karen Marie Connelly is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada.-Life and work:...

, Jeffrey Moore, and Anna Porter

Anna Porter

Anna Maria Porter, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian publisher and novelist.Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 to escape the Soviet presence in Hungary. She received a Bachelor degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She started at McClelland &...

 Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, his books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France...

, Inside

• Peter Behrens
  Peter Behrens
  Peter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...
  
  , The Law of Dreams
  The Law of Dreams
  The Law of Dreams is a historical fiction novel about the Irish potato famine by Canadian author Peter Behrens. Published in 2006 by House of Anansi Press, it was the recipient of that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction....
  
  
• Rawi Hage
  Rawi Hage
  -Early life and education:Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had...
  
  , DeNiro's Game
• Catherine Hanrahan, Lost Girls and Love Hotels
• Mary Lawson
  Mary Lawson
  Mary Lawson is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist...
  
  , The Other Side of the Bridge

2007

Juried by Kevin Major

Kevin Major

Kevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....

, Kim Moritsugu

Kim Moritsugu

Kim Moritsugu is a Canadian writer. An alumna of the University of Toronto, she worked in a corporate setting for several years before publishing her debut novel, Looks Perfect, in 1996...

, and Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under...

 Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes....

, The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes (novel)

The Book of Negroes is a 2007 award-winning novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. In the United States, Australia and New Zealand, the novel was published under the title Someone Knows My Name.-Plot introduction:...

• Shaena Lambert
  Shaena Lambert
  Shaena Lambert is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her work has appeared in many periodicals and literary journals including Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All Story, and Toronto Life. Her first book was a collection of short stories called The Falling Woman. She has also published a novel,...
  
  , Radiance
• Robert Hough
  Robert Hough
  Robert Hough is a Canadian author. Hough graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1985. Following a career as a free-lance magazine journalist, Hough published his first novel titled The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, in 2001.-Published works:* The Final Confession of Mabel Stark ....
  
  , The Culprits
• Nancy Huston
  Nancy Huston
  Nancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.-Biography:...
  
  , Fault Lines
• M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
  The Assassin's Song
  The Assassin's Song is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. It is the story of a young Indian boy whose dream is to escape his family's religious legacy. He wants to be ordinary: to go to school, play cricket, talk to girls, and make his own choices...
  
  

2008

Juried by Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes....

, Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She's published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and an adult historical novel, The Golden Mean.-Life and work:...

, and Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. She was born in Montreal, but spent part of her childhood in the American South. She currently lives in Montreal....

 Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto in 2009....

, The Flying Troutmans

• Rivka Galchen
  Rivka Galchen
  Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008, has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction....
  
  , Atmospheric Disturbances
• Rawi Hage
  Rawi Hage
  -Early life and education:Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had...
  
  , Cockroach
• Lee Henderson
  Lee Henderson
  Lee Henderson is a Canadian writer, the author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game . The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English...
  
  , The Man Game
• Patrick Lane
  Patrick Lane
  Patrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel Red Dog, Red Dog.-Biography:...
  
  , Red Dog, Red Dog

2009

Juried by Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was short listed for the Giller Prize.-Personal life:...

, Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto in 2009....

, and R.M. Vaughan Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She's published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and an adult historical novel, The Golden Mean.-Life and work:...

, The Golden Mean

• Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
  
  , Fences in Breathing
• Douglas Coupland
  Douglas Coupland
  Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
  
  , Generation A
  Generation A
  Generation A is the thirteenth novel from Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland. It takes place in a near future, in a world in which bees have become extinct. The novel is told with a shifting frame narrative perspective, shifting between the novel's five main protagonists...
  
  
• Alice Munro
  Alice Munro
  Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
  
  , Too Much Happiness
  Too Much Happiness
  Too Much Happiness is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published on August 25, 2009 by McClelland and Stewart's Douglas Gibson Books imprint....
  
  
• Andrew Steinmetz, Eva's Threepenny Theatre

2010

Juried by Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper is a Canadian writer of fiction. Born in 1968, he received a BA and an MA in English Literature from McGill University, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practiced. He lives in Toronto.-Published works: A collection...

, Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson

Eden Victoria Lena Robinson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations...

 and Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore (writer)

Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...

.
Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...

, Room

Room (novel)

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother...

• Trevor Cole, Practical Jean
• Michael Helm
  Michael Helm
  Michael Helm is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Eston, Saskatchewan, and received degrees in literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto...
  
  , Cities of Refuge
• Kathleen Winter
  Kathleen Winter
  Kathleen Winter is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. John's...
  
  , Annabel
• Michael Winter, The Death of Donna Whalen

2011

Juried by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...

, Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the literary journal Lichen...

 and Margaret Sweatman

Margaret Sweatman

Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sweatman was educated at the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University and Simon Fraser University....

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Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and later lived in California and Washington. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon....

, The Sisters Brothers

• Clark Blaise
  Clark Blaise
  Clark Blaise, OC is a Canadian author.Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee. They have two sons. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Blaise was also the director of...
  
  , The Meagre Tarmac
• Michael Christie
  Michael Christie (writer)
  Michael Christie is a Canadian short story writer, whose debut collection The Beggar's Garden is a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize....
  
  , The Beggar's Garden
• Esi Edugyan
  Esi Edugyan
  Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta to Ghanaian immigrant parents, she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before publishing her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, in 2004....
  
  , Half-Blood Blues
• Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin

External links

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, official website