PT 2: Black Canadian writers on finding home in their work
What kinds of responsibility does a Black writer have? Is it enough to just write whatever inspires you, or is there an obligation to take on the big questions of culture, class, colour? In this two-part series, we hear from Black Canadian writers about the politics of everyday life and art.
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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 7:17 PM ET | Last Updated: February 26
From left to right: writers George Elliott Clarke, Afua Cooper and André Alexis all featured guests in our two-part series, Behind the Lines.(Submitted by George Elliott Clark/Submitted by Afua Cooper/Hannah Zoe Davison)
New Atwood Gibson Prize celebrates year’s best Canadian fiction
$60,000 Writers Trust Award is rebranded and named after co-founders Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson By Glenn Sumi
Jan 27, 2021
The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction are two of Canada’s most prestigious writing awards. But neither of them is named after beloved literary couple Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson – until now. The annual $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize will annually honour the best Canadian fiction writer.
Atwood and her partner, Gibson, who died in 2019, were among the five co-founders of the Writers’ Trust in 1976, which was created to help build structural supports for Canada’s new literary scene. In 2020, the Trust distributed more than $970,000 in direct support to Canadian writers.
$60,000 Writers Trust Award is rebranded and named after cofounders Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson by Glenn Sumi on January 27th, 2021 at 10:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction are two of Canada’s most prestigious writing awards. But neither of them is named after beloved literary couple Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson until now. The annual $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize will annually honour the best Canadian fiction writer.
Atwood and her partner, Gibson, who died in 2019, were among the five cofounders of the Writers’ Trust in 1976, which was created to help build structural supports for Canada’s new literary scene. In 2020, the Trust distributed more than $970,000 in direct support to Canadian writers.
Gil Adamson: On Writing the Genre-Bender
Award-winning author Gil Adamson shares how her novel took a thirteen-year, genre-bending journey to publication.
Author:
Gil Adamson is the critically acclaimed author of
Ridgerunner, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was named a best book of the year by the
Globe and Mail and the CBC. Her first novel,
The Outlander, won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the Drummer General’s Award. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Prix Femina in France, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and chosen as a