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Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year.

TORONTO — Debut novelist Nicholas Herring took home the top fiction prize at the Writers’ Trust Awards Wednesday evening for his tale of a lobster fisher whose unhappily monotonous life is upended by a series of unexpected events.

The Writers' Trust of Canada gave out $270,000 worth of prizes in recognition of the year's best books, as well as mid-career and lifetime achievement awards.

Debut novelist Nicholas Herring took home the top fiction prize at the Writers Trust Awards Wednesday evening for his tale of a lobster fisher whose unhappily monotonous life is upended by a series of unexpected events.

The annual prize is one of the biggest in Canadian fiction. The winner will be announced on Nov. 2.

The CBC Books fall reading list is here! Here are 30 books, from fiction to poetry to comics, to check out this season.

This October, be a part of the festival’s 80 events and discussions featuring local and internally revered authors.

TORONTO - Two French-to-English translations are among the titles in the running for a $60,000 fiction prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada.

The $60,000 award annually honours the best novel or short story collection published in Canada. The other finalists are Rima Elkouri, Nicholas Herring and Darcy Tamayose.

SHORT FICTION Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli, eds. Arsenal Pulp Press, Oct. Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, and Kai Cheng Thom are among the contributors to this collection of poetry and fiction that re-examines monsters through a queer lens,