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.